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• Interdisciplinary Programs Office
• 688 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 0431
• Montreal, Quebec
• H3A 3R1

• Telephone: 514-398-4400, ext. 09557
• Email: interdisciplinary.arts [at] mcgill.ca
• Website: www.mcgill.ca/langlitcultures/liberal-arts-program

• Adviser:
• Karin Bourgeois (on leave)
• Ines Scharnweber (Interim); ines.scharnweber [at] mcgill.ca

The Liberal Arts Program represents a contemporary approach to the traditional concept of a broad, non-specialist undergraduate formation in the humanities that is tailored to the environment of a research-intensive university. The program emphasizes a classical liberal arts education, yet approaches the liberal arts from a global perspective emphasizing diversity and difference, and providing new ways of engaging the liberal arts.

The program exposes students to texts from, and histories of, a wide range of cultures, societies, and different historical periods. Students will be able to choose from four intellectual streams: languages and literatures; the fine arts and their histories; ethics and social thought; and history and the liberal arts. Students will be expected to satisfy distribution requirements across regions of the world and historical periods. Instruction in a language other than English will also be a requirement.

The Liberal Arts Program affirms the Faculty of Arts' commitment to the humanities and its core mission to foster cross-disciplinary perspectives, diverse and engaged communities, and critical thinking by providing the tools for critical inquiry and teaching effective communication skills.

For further information, please contact the Director, Liberal Arts Program: Professor E. Bolongaro (514-398-4400, ext. 09454).