Farshore University of Newfoundland

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Arts, Behaviour & Questionable Judgement

Understand people. Interpret culture. Question absolutely everything, including why this meeting is still happening.

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Arts, Behaviour & Questionable Judgement

A broad home for the humanities, social sciences, communication and the study of human behaviour. We ask serious questions about people, culture and society—and occasionally admit the answers are complicated.

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Bachelor of Nymphomania Studies (Co-operative Education)

BNS (Co-op)4 years

An interdisciplinary study of desire, intimacy, culture, representation, consent and human behaviour, with supervised work terms and unusually careful professional boundaries.

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BA in Folklore & Applied Rumour

BA4 years

Study how stories, traditions and rumours move through communities—from kitchen tables to social media—and why some survive every attempt at correction.

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BA in Psychology

BA4 years

Explore cognition, behaviour, development, social psychology and the remarkable human capacity to know better and continue anyway.

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BA in Strategic Communication

BA4 years

Learn to communicate clearly across media, organizations and public life, including situations in which everyone insists they are already aligned.

1,240undergraduate students
236graduate students
65faculty members
12research centres & labs

People

Meet some of our faculty.

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Dr. Tessa P. Mulligan

Dean; Professor of Cultural Studies

“Curiosity is useful. So is reading the footnotes.”

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Dr. Simon Ellery

Professor; Chair, Psychology & Human Behaviour

“People are complicated. That’s what makes them interesting.”

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Dr. Maeve O’Donnell

Associate Professor; Chair, Folklore & Cultural Studies

“Every community has a story. We just ask better questions.”

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Dr. Anders Nygaard

Professor; Chair, Political Science & Public Life

“Democracy is a verb. So is complaining.”

Student perspective

People make the program.

“Farshore gave me room to take big ideas seriously—even the strange ones. I found professors who encouraged me to ask ‘what if?’ and then made me cite it.” — Jules Bennett, BA Psychology (Class of 2027)

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Programs, research, departments, co-op, fieldwork, advising and the occasional academic requirement that sounds more alarming than it is.

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