Communities and Collections

Located within the central parkland natural subregion of Alberta, the Roy Berg Kinsella Research Ranch is embedded in a rolling landscape dominated by agricultural lands and punctuated by aspen groves, wetlands and patches of native prairie vegetation.

The Alberta School of Business is built on the Alberta tradition. Innovative ideas, hard work, entrepreneurial spirit and great people have made the Alberta economy the best in Canada. Twenty-three hundred students fill our classrooms every day expecting the best business education in the country. That is what we deliver.

The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) is part of the Faculty of Education, and offers the only Master of Library and Information Studies program on the Canadian prairies that is accredited by the American Library Association (ALA). SLIS also offers an inter-faculty combined degree program Master of Library & Information Studies/Master of Arts in Humanities Computing, and is a home department for the Master of Arts in Humanities Computing program. We are in the process of developing a Ph.D. program, and in the meantime, in conjunction with other University of Alberta departments that house PhD programs, SLIS offers opportunities for individual interdisciplinary PhDs.
The School's vision for teaching, research, and service is grounded in a multi-disciplinary focus on issues of information access and equity.

We are Canada's first stand-alone faculty dedicated solely to public health. In October 2012, we became Canada's first accredited School of Public Health. We are committed to promoting and protecting health and preventing disease and injury across Alberta, Canada and around the world. Through our research, education, and community engagement programs, we work toward comprehensive solutions to protect and improve the health of people locally and globally.

This Science, Technology & Society program combines insights from Anthropology, Art and Design, Economics, English and Film Studies, History, Sociology, and Philosophy to help you think critically about the roles scientific and technological practices play in our lives.

The Department of Secondary Education offers an extensive array of courses and programs in both undergraduate and graduate studies. The Undergraduate Secondary Route Teacher Education Program prepares students to be teacher specialists in each of the subject areas represented in the secondary schools of the Province of Alberta. The Department offers both masters and doctoral programs. Graduate studies may be pursued with a subject area focus, as a teacher education inquiry, or with a curriculum/pedagogical studies orientation. The Department has a strong research focus in a variety of fields in curriculum studies and teacher education. Department members have a number of funded research projects.

The Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada is a Ukrainian Canadian organization with a focus on education and research. The Society primary goal is to advance fields of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history, culture, and language. The Society has its intellectual and scholarly origins in the Shevchenko Society established in 1873 in L'viv, Western Ukraine, which was then part of the Habsburg Empire. Until its dissolution by the Soviet regime in 1940, it served as a preeminent Ukrainian association of scholars. After World War II the Society was re-established in Europe and in 1949 in Canada where some of its original members settled. Its headquarters are in Toronto with branches in Edmonton, Ottawa, and Montreal.

The Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta is one of the best in Canada. The department is home to several cutting-edge research centres, such as the Centre for Criminological Research, and the Intermedia Research Studio, and offers teaching and research specializations in Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, Social Structure & Policy, and Theory & Culture.

St Stephen's College is a graduate school founded by The United Church of Canada and an Affiliated College of The University of Alberta. For the past century, St Stephen's has been recognized not only for its commitment to academic excellence, but also for its creative and non-traditional styles of learning: we value flexibility, innovation, collegiality, self-directed learning, and the integration of the arts with theology. An Act to Incorporate St Stephen’s College (April 27, 1927; amended 1968) authorizes St Stephen’s College to confer degrees in theology. The College also offers undergraduate and graduate University of Alberta credit courses, through the Faculty of Arts. This community page contains theses from 2011 to the current year; you may contact the College (st.stephens@ualberta.ca) to access theses written prior to that date.

Student Conduct and Accountability addresses student conduct in multiple ways, including prevention, collaborative (non-adjudicative) problem-solving, policy development, and decision-making under the Code of Student Behaviour.