Université du Québec en Outaouais

Region : Quebec

City : Gatineau

Web site : www.uqo.ca

The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) is a branch of the Université du Québec located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. As of September 2010, combined enrolment at UQO's Gatineau and Saint-Jérôme campuses was 6,017, of which 4,738 were undergraduates and 1,279 postgraduate students. UQO offers more than 100 programs of study, including 30 master's and 5 doctoral programs.

It was named after Quebec's Outaouais region. Outaouais borders Ottawa and is part of the National Capital Region, where a large proportion of the population is bilingual.

Fields of study

The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) offers several different fields of study:

• Administrative sciences
• Project management
• Arts and heritage
• Accounting science
• Education
• Computer engineering
• Nursing science
• Computer science
• Psychoeducation
• Psychology
• Labour relations and human resources
• Social sciences
• Translation and writing
• Social work

Main programs

UQO is the only university in Canada offering the following programs in French:

• Certificates:

• Visual arts
• Comic strip design
• Cybermuseology
• Graphic design
• Museology and heritage

• Bachelor's degrees:

• Arts and design
• Arts and heritage with majors and minors
• Majors:

• Visual arts
• Comic strip design
• Graphic design
• Museology and heritage

• Minors:

• Approaches to education
• Visual arts
• Comic strip design
• Public communication (Social Sciences minor)
• Cybermuseology
• Graphic design
• History (Social Sciences minor)
• Museology and heritage

• Administrative practices

• Master of advanced studies (diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées, or DESS) in andragogy
• Short program in adult second-language and foreign-language instruction - French and Spanish streams

Research

UQO has gained international recognition for its research activities, which have grown exponentially in the past five years. Led by its professors and researchers, the University's research programs extend to such fields as psychology, computer science and engineering, design and museology, social work and language studies. There is also an emerging natural sciences component, particularly in silviculture and deciduous forest management, through a close partnership with the Institut québécois d'aménagement de la forêt feuillue. The University is home to several different research bodies and specialized laboratories contributing to the expansion of knowledge.

Research centres

UQO also has four research centres:

• Social innovation research centre (CRISES)
• Territorial development research centre (CRDT)
• Centre for studies and research on social intervention (CÉRIS)
• Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC)

Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) In May 2006, UQO, in partnership with the federal government, inaugurated the Outaouais region's first international research facility: the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC). The 4,500 m² Centre, built at a cost of $15.2 million, houses some 150 language industry specialists who pool their expertise in technology and linguistics on specific projects. The LRTC is a unique environment combining computer technology, information sciences, engineering and language and translation studies to develop integrated applications for multilingual information processing. The Centre supports the Canadian language industry, and makes UQO the ideal destination for anyone interested in studying, specializing or conducting research in this field.

Sources : Wikipedia, www.uqo.ca