Academics

Kingsmere keeps a deliberately narrow curriculum. We would rather teach three faculties well than a dozen indifferently, and we would rather a graduate read a few things closely than survey a great many.

The faculties

Three disciplines, one discipline.

Faculty of Commerce

Business

BCom · MBA · Executive

Commerce read as a liberal art — finance, strategy, and governance studied with the same close attention Kingsmere brings to a text.

The Faculty of Commerce treats business as a discipline of judgment rather than technique. Students read the firm as they would read a text — for its arguments, its incentives, and its consequences — and are asked to defend their conclusions in seminar, in two languages.

Undergraduate, graduate, and executive cohorts share a common conviction: that the people who allocate a society’s capital owe it the same seriousness a scholar owes a source.

Faculty of Arts & Letters

Liberal Arts

BA · MA

History, philosophy, and literature in two languages — the long conversation the institute exists to continue.

The Faculty of Arts & Letters is the institute’s conscience. Its seminars are small, its reading lists unhurried, and its examinations a defence of one’s reading before one’s peers.

English and French are not alternatives here but a single inheritance; a Kingsmere education assumes a student will think, and argue, across both.

Faculty of Public Policy

Public Policy

BPP · MPP · Executive

Government studied a short drive from where it happens, with the Mackenzie Lecture at its centre.

The Faculty of Public Policy reads the state at close range. Field terms convene in the National Capital Region, where students observe institutions they will later be asked to improve.

The annual Mackenzie Lecture, delivered each September, opens the academic year and sets its question.

Why Kingsmere

Read in full

Every seminar is small, every text is read entire, and every argument is made in the language of the maker.

Bilingual to the bone

English and French are held at parity — in lectures, in examinations, and in the degree itself.

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Place as curriculum

Field terms convene in Gatineau Park, where government, history, and landscape meet within a short walk.

Founding faculty

Those who teach here.

Dr. Marie Tremblay-Côté

Professor of Public Policy

Public Policy

Delivers the inaugural Mackenzie Lecture and leads the field term in the National Capital Region.

Dr. Edmund Rowntree

Professor of Finance

Business

Reads markets as institutions, and teaches capital allocation as a question of stewardship.

Dr. Hélène Bourassa

Professor of Philosophy

Liberal Arts

Convenes the foundation-year seminar on judgment, shared by every entering student.

Dr. Samuel Whitford

Professor of History

Liberal Arts

Writes on the political history of the Canadas and the estate the institute now keeps.

Ready to read closely?

Admissions for the founding cohort are open, and read on a rolling basis.

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