Now that you’re coming to university, you want the best start you can possibly get. UPEI’s Learning Communities create a teaching and learning environment for students and faculty where academic enrichment and student success are priorities. With attention to in-classroom and out-of classroom teaching and learning, student and faculty explore meaningful relationships and varied ways of understanding meaning and purpose in subject matter. Students foster their working relationships and friendships with other students in their learning community and with their faculty members. 

The University of Prince Edward Island has long had a tradition of providing a solid education in the liberal arts. It is committed to rigorous study and inquiry, belief in the value of knowledge, lifelong capacity building, and the development of the whole person. UPEI’s Faculty of Arts offers wide-ranging and comprehensive programs that include the many genres that make up the “arts.” And UPEI’s advisors and professors in the Faculty of Arts are committed to helping you discover the field that most interests you, and to ensuring your time here is exciting and productive.