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Faculty of Humanities

At UVic's Faculty of Humanities, our departments and programs explore what it means to be human. You'll get a hands-on education in a dynamic learning environment that gives you the flexibility to explore your interests.

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Explore your passions in a diverse community of thinkers, doers and researchers. Participate in hands-on research, international opportunities, co-op and community-embedded activities.

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Conduct vital, in-depth research that makes a local and global impact. Join an engaged, vibrant community of graduate students and faculty researchers doing nationally recognized work.

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Medieval studies instructor sets milestone with teaching awards

October 16, 2026

Michael Reed (Medieval Studies; Art History and Visual Studies) has become the first UVic instructor to receive teaching awards in multiple faculties (the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of...

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How humanities changed this math student's perspective

October 2, 2026

The same curiosity that brought international student Ana Galicia to UVic for a degree in mathematics became a doorway into storytelling. For Ana, humanities courses tapped into curiosity and...

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Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers cultivates Métis knowledge sharing

September 22, 2026

Trudeau scholar Stephanie Erickson, who is a PhD candidate in UVic’s Department of English, is the most recent addition to the Editorial Circle of Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis...

70 Humanities electives that anyone can take

July 24, 2026

Need to fill an open space on your schedule? Looking for an interesting elective?  These 70 Humanities courses span millennia of global languages, cultures, literatures and histories from...

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Languages open doors on the I-Witness Field School

July 8, 2026

by Scarlet Bowness (Germanic Studies, 3rd year) My academic journey has been guided by the belief that to learn a language is to understand the culture that speaks it. Learning German was never...

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Territory acknowledgement

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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