Highlights
One of the great strengths of TWU’s MAIH program is our commitment to work with each student as an individual, to create a program that meets his/her particular needs. This is carried out in the following ways:
- the advising and shaping of an individual's program within the broad structure of the overall program
- the availability of a very wide range of directed studies courses
- the commitment of the faculty members to give considerable personal attention to the academic and career interests of the student
Indeed, all 20 of the faculty members are committed to the individual student's success and are happy to spend extra time advising, directing individual study courses, and supervising theses. In many cases, it is that extra attention from faculty members that makes all the difference in students getting papers accepted at conferences, completing application forms for significant grants and awards, and being accepted into Ph.D. programs.
Because of our exceptional faculty, we offer many areas of focus within the overarching disciplines of history, English, and philosophy. Such areas of focus include:
History
- History & religion (especially early Christianity, Europe, Canada & the United States)
- Canada (government, first nations, Christianity, environmental history)
- US/Canada relations
- Medieval, Renaissance and reformation Europe
- Family & gender
- War & peace
- Science, the environment and religion
- Government - developments in Europe and Canada
- Atlantic world
- Middle East
English
- Religion and literature
- Gender and literature
- Christianity and literature
- Trauma and literature
- Theory of interpretation (hermeneutics)
- Children's literature
- Fantasy literature
- British literature
- Canadian literature
- American literature
- The moral imagination
- Individual Authors: John Milton, Henry Vaughan, Margaret Cavendish, Daniel Defoe, James Hogg, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George McDonald, Emily Dickinson, Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Madeleine L'Engle, and Margaret Atwood
Philosophy
- Analytic philosophy
- Continental philosophy
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of body
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophy of religion
- Social and political philosophy