Master of Arts in Religious Studies (MA) University of Alberta
分野：Culture/Linguistics
分類：Regional Studies
概要：The Faculty of Arts aims to create and disseminate knowledge through the teaching, learning, research, professional practice, artistic production and performances of its faculty and of its students. We aim to educate within a context of freedom of inquiry and intellectual curiosity. To be human is to wonder, to seek meaning, to discover. Our mission is to nurture this humanness--to educate our students in this humanness. We study nature so that we can understand, use, and preserve the physical world in responsible ways. We reflect on societies, past and present, so that we can create free-thinking and responsible citizens for tomorrow. We seek knowledge that solves practical problems, but also knowledge for its own sake. We teach our students how to identify problems and their interdependencies and how to solve problems, how to think analytically and critically and how to reason convincingly, how to write and how to speak coherently and logically. We educate dreamers and thinkers, politicians and political activists, scientists and artists, entrepreneurs and workers - the leaders and the doers who will shape the markets and societies of tomorrow. We undertake our work in a world in which societies are engaged in an active dialogue between their needs to understand and appreciate one another and their needs to maintain distinctive social and cultural identities. At the centre of one of Canada's best research universities, the UBC Faculty of Arts is well-placed to observe, study, and participate in the formation of a multicultural Canada and a culturally diverse internationalism. Part of an ethnically diverse campus in an ethnically diverse city, Arts seeks particularly to create comparative cultural perspectives in its teaching and scholarship. The flow of migrants from Pacific Rim countries, and especially from Asia, following on the First Nations inhabitants of the area and its later European settlers, has created in Vancouver a mix of cultures and languages that has offered unique opportunities for cross-cultural scholarship and teaching in the Faculty of Arts. In the emerging international context, the cultures of the Americas are becoming an increasingly important part of our scholarship and teaching. The Faculty of Arts takes as one of its priorities teaching and scholarship in the languages and cultural studies, the visual and performing arts, the business practices, religions, economics, history, geography, social policy, literature and politics of Asia and Canada, the Americas and Europe. We educate citizens for an international world at a time when technological change and global economic integration have generated great uncertainty. We do not know which specialized skills will be demanded in the future. But we do know that in a time of rapid technological change, general intellectual and analytic skills are at a premium. We take it as our duty to educate students to be lifelong learners, to question conventional wisdom, to seek out facts, to analyze, to synthesize, to communicate, to be open to criticism, and to have an understanding of social and cultural diversity. Technological change also gives rise to special problems: the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, environmental damage, stresses in the family structure, the tensions caused by increased interaction among different cultures. These are problems which benefit from interdisciplinary approaches. Arts brings to them scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, the creative and performing arts, the professional schools and its interdisciplinary programmes. The challenges posed by internationalism, by technological change, by environmental damage, by cultural diversity: these are largely challenges posed by the interaction of people with the world and the circumstances in which they live. Because they are about people, these challenges cannot be addressed without education and research about people and their societies. It is that education and research that Arts provides. An Arts education provides tangible social benefits including a higher standard of living and a well-run polity. It confers its greatest benefits on students and society by developing students' potential to live full, interesting, constructive lives. An educated person is more curious about the world, is better able to work with social and technological change, and has a greater respect for and appreciation of the arts and different cultural practices.
コース名：Master of Arts in Religious Studies (MA)
期間：2
滞在費：100万以下
GPA：3
degreereq：制限有り
toefl：100
ielts：7
条件付き合格：有り
gregmat：有り
careerreq：問わない
寮：有り
faculity：Faculty of Arts
生活費：150
寮：有り
URL：http://www.arts.ubc.ca/