Humanities

Degree offered

MPhil

Application deadline

February 15 for Fall admission
No set deadline for Winter admission

Departmental website

Why Humanities at Memorial?

Students in Humanities may expect the following: exposure to a variety of representative problems in the history and contemporary scene of human culture; education in significant methods and modes of interpretation that apply to a range of such problems; and engagement in an ongoing discussion concerning major values and human trends.

Humanities concerns the human condition, past, present, and future. The human condition includes the natural world of which we are a part and from which we have distinguished ourselves, as well as the social, economic, and cultural worlds we create.

Funding

Memorial University offers competitive funding packages to eligible Canadian and International graduate students. Below is an approximate value of funding packages recently offered to graduate students in Humanities. For more information, refer to Fees and Funding.

MPhil: $6,500

Tuition

We are proud to offer some of the lowest graduate tuition rates in Canada. The following are general program fees for graduate programs in Humanities. For more information on special fees, continuance fees, and related charges, refer to Graduate Tuition and Cost of Living.

Program	Program fee per semester		# of semesters
Program	Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents	International Students	# of semesters
Master’s program
Plan A	$733	$953	6
Plan B	$486	$632	9

Duration (for full-time students)

2 years

Find a supervisor that meets your research needs

Visit the Humanities program website for areas of research, or search Yaffle to find a supervisor you may wish to work with (for research programs).

Description of program

The graduate program in Humanities, offering the degree of Master of Philosophy, is an interdisciplinary teaching and research program housed in the Faculty of Arts at Memorial University.

In a normal year, the program provides a home for approximately 20 graduate students and an interdisciplinary teaching forum for among 50 instructors and tutors from the Faculty of Arts, as well as other faculties at the University, the arts and culture community in St. John's, and visiting lecturers and postdoctoral fellows.

The focal point for the program is the MPhil in Humanities, a master's degree that may be completed in two years of full-time or three years of part-time study.

Minimum admission requirements

Bachelor's degree (second class honours) in one or more of the Humanities disciplines
Applicants who do not hold an honours degree (or equivalent) will be required to complete, prior to admission, a number of undergraduate courses, the nature and number of which will be determined on the basis of the applicants' undergraduate record by the Director of Studies in consultation with the Board of Studies. Candidates will be required to complete such designated pre-admission courses with a minimum overall average of 70%.

Important Note: The information provided on this website is subject to change. The University Calendar is the final authority on university regulations.