The Queen’s Art History program is strongly committed to mentoring students in a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, methodologies, and issues, including the technical examination of art, gender studies, critical theory, cultural representation, curatorial studies, and the relationships among art, literature, and science. The program offers a wide range of courses that explore how visual and material cultures have shaped human societies across time and around the world.
Grappling with life’s big topics, Philosophy provides students with critical thinking skills that enable you to uncover hidden assumptions, identify core premises, and evaluate arguments. The Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University has faculty working in a wide variety of fields, including political philosophy, ethics, bioethics, feminism, contemporary metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, continental philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Programs in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences offer thesis-based MSc research degrees, PhD degrees, MSc (Anatomical Sciences) and a combined MD/MSC and MD/PhD program.
In the first two degree programs (MSc and PhD), students would choose one of the following fields of specialization:
The School of Rehabilitation Therapy offers a twenty-four month program in Physical Therapy leading to a professional Master of Science in Physical Therapy MScPT degree. The Physical Therapy program prepares students to enter the physical therapy profession by supporting them to achieve the competencies required for physiotherapy practice. Students will leave the program prepared to work in various practice settings including public, private, and community settings. They will be prepared to provide client-centered interprofessional physiotherapy care for clients across the lifespan.
Occupational therapy is a dynamic, growing, and internationally-recognized health profession that for close to a century has been helping to improve the lives and daily experience of children, adults, and communities by focusing on what is fundamental to us all - the daily occupations that give life meaning. Occupational therapists are specialists in the use of occupation to prevent disability, restore health, and ensure that all individuals and populations, regardless of health status, can experience full and meaningful lives.
The Master of Health Professions Education program provides health professionals a focused program addressing the diverse teaching needs within clinical and health related settings. Specifically, the program targets individuals employed in the health sector filling a gap between clinical knowledge and teaching skills, and/or residents/allied health students seeking a position at an academic setting.
The Graduate Diploma in Water and Human Health, hosted by the Beaty Water Research Centre, is designed to give recent graduates and professionals an enhanced understanding of the role of water in driving health outcomes and ultimately the sustainability of populations and communities.
The Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Management and Innovation is targeted to enhance the competitiveness and employability of graduate students interested in pursuing careers in pharmaceutical and related health industries. Graduates of this program will possess the requisite knowledge, skills, and experience to make them ideal candidates to enter progressive career positions. The diploma will offer a combination of course work and practical experience to recent graduates in the health and science sectors (e.g. MD, PhD, PharmD) from across Canada and internationally.
Translational Medicine is driven by patients and their diseases. Guided by this primary focus, translational research spans across the spectrum from molecular and cell biology to preclinical models to patient studies and back again.
Our graduate programs (MSc and PhD) offer students unique opportunities to develop research skills with clinical experiences through patient interactions, clinical observerships, and by attending medical grand rounds.
The doctoral and master's programs in Rehabilitation Science at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ stress the multi-disciplinary contribution of many health professions and disciplines to rehabilitation. Students are exposed to the broadest scope of rehabilitation science and are provided with a unique opportunity to develop insight and understanding of the multidisciplinary and inter-professional aspects of rehabilitation. This approach is an innovative feature of the program and is unique to the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ program in Rehabilitation Science.