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The University of King's College, Canada's oldest chartered university, is a
small but extraordinarily lively academic community located in Halifax, Nova
Scotia. The College is known nationally and internationally for its
interdisciplinary programmes in the humanities and journalism.
The
university, rich with history, maintains many of its old academic traditions:
Formal Meal has the students and faculty dressed in academic gowns, student
societies founded in the early 19th century are still thriving, a Matriculation
reception is held each September in honour of entering students, and graduates
are fêted with an Encaenia ceremony each May. The combination of these
traditions with the sometimes radical and forward innovations of students and
faculty makes for an interesting intellectual environment.
While the
College's neighbouring institution, Dalhousie University, has an enrolment of
over 16,000 (11,000 undergraduates), King's has a total student population of
about 1,100 . The College is committed to retaining the personal atmosphere,
individual attention and sense of community possible only in a small university,
and the combination of this intimate community with the tremendous resources and
faculty at Dalhousie provide unique possibilities in undergraduate
education.
Our Foundation Year Programme, founded nearly 40 years ago,
put King's on the map. This unique programme that addresses the history of
Western thought through interdisciplinary lectures, stimulating tutorial
sessions, and a strong emphasis on writing as, per the old adage, writing is
thinking has inspired many of its kind nationally and across the
globe.
But we have grown. King s is now a four-year institution and
roughly half of our students continue into an upper-year opportunity to further
the discussion they began in FYP, pairing their honours studies at the College
with the vast variety available at Dalhousie.
King's provides a unique
educational experience, and recently was ranked first in Canada in the National
Survey of Student Engagement for its first-year programming. The College is
small but active and has well-established national profile, whether it is
through the History of Science and Technology program's success as the lead
partner in a SSHRC-funded Situating Science project or through the chapel choir
under the direction of five times Grammy winning director Paul
Halley.
King's offers the best of two worlds the facilities and
resources of a major Canadian university, together with the advantages of a
small college in which all members, faculty and students, feel themselves part
of a community.
The College is situated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a
vibrant university community, home to nine post-secondary institutions. A city
of about 370,000 people, Halifax is the commercial hub of Canada's four Atlantic
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