Overview | TWU Undergraduate Admissions

HUMANITIES: students choose courses from philosophy, English, French and linguistics.

SOCIAL SCIENCES: students combine courses from geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology.

Note: In both programs, students take a concentration in one discipline and a minor in another, with additional courses from the acceptable list augmenting these specializations.

According to Dr. Robynne Healey, history is foundational to all academic study. "History is the ultimate discipline. Without history you can't understand anything," she says, with enthusiasm.

Stephen Anderson

MAJOR: English and Music
YEAR: Fourth
HOMETOWN: Swift Current, SK
INVOLVEMENT: English Students' Society
Treasurer, English Teaching Assistant,
Mars' Hill staff writer

"If you want a degree that educates the whole person, not just your mind, TWU would absolutely be the place to come.

Professors here are deeply interested in investing in their students' lives. Their own academic work is important, but that is not their sole focus. You get to engage with professors. They don't just lecture and the classes are small. To sit in a classroom with twelve other people, as opposed to a huge lecture hall, is a pretty stunning thing.

I also appreciate my professors' experience in external academia and how they bring that perspective into this setting. At TWU, I think that we are looking outward, towards a marketplace in the world."

The political context of history still informs her work on gender. Dr. Healey's classes on engendered history and conflict examine the structures and institutions that shape modern ideas of gender roles.

"I'm fascinated by the relationships between people. I think it's important to understand how men and women have constructed notions of where they fit into society," says Dr. Healey. Her discussion-based courses allow students to challenge one another as they develop an awareness of how gender frames both the past and the present.

These discussions, says Dr. Healey, are enhanced by the diversity of TWU students, who come from around the world.

"Our classrooms are international. When you get students who come from such broad backgrounds they bring the world into the classroom and the experience is richer for everyone."