Université de Moncton


The Université de Moncton is a French-language university located in Edmundston, Moncton and Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada serving the Acadian community of Atlantic Canada. It is the only francophone university in New Brunswick and is one of only two such universities in the Maritimes, the other being the Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is also the largest French-language university in Canada outside Quebec.

History

Founded on 19 June 1963, the modern Université de Moncton is the result of the merger of three colleges: Collège Saint-Joseph, :fr:Collège Sacré-Cœur|Collège du Sacré-Cœur, and Collège Saint-Louis. In 1989, the Université of Moncton founded undergraduate degrees in adult education. Alan Beddoe designed the university coats of arms.
The National Film Board of Canada documentary Acadia Acadia ?!?, co-directed by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, documents how student protests at the university in 1968–69 sparked an awakening of Acadian nationalism.

Campuses

The university is divided into three campuses
The Moncton Campus features the following buildings:
The university is a member of L'Association des collèges et des universités de la francophonie canadienne, formerly L'Association des universités de la francophonie canadienne, a network of academic institutions of the Canadian Francophonie.

Faculties

The main campus at Moncton is home to eight university-wide faculties:
The University of Moncton's Faculty of Law is one of only two French-language common law schools in the world. The school was founded in 1978 in order to respond to the needs of francophone communities outside Quebec. As Quebec practices civil law, there was a need to instruct francophone lawyers in common law to practice in other parts of Canada. The University of Ottawa law school teaches both common and civil law, as does McGill; thus the University of Moncton's Faculty of Law is the only exclusively French, exclusively common law school in Canada.
U de M offers both the JD and the graduate LLM. The school also offers joint degrees: the JD-MBA and JD-MEE. As well, students who already possess a civil law degree from a Canadian school can enroll at U de M for two semesters to complete an LLB.

Medical Training Centre

The University of Moncton's Medical Training Centre is the first francophone school of medicine in Atlantic Canada. It is a joint medical programme, offered by the Université de Sherbrooke which administers it. It is not technically a faculty of the University of Moncton.

Faculty of Health Sciences and Community Services

The School of Food Science, Nutrition and Family Studies within the Faculty of Health Sciences and Community Services has an accredited dietetic program. The program is accredited by the Partnership for Dietetic Education and Practice, the accrediting body in Canada, and the program's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians.

Faculty of Sciences

The faculty of Sciences is located in the Rémi-Rossignol building and covers all cores science subjects, such as: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, as well as Computer Science.

Edmundston Campus

Programmes at the Edmundston Campus are grouped in the following sectors: business administration, arts and letters, education and kinesiology, nursing, forestry, and social sciences. Administratively, all sectors except foresty are under the campus dean of studies. Foresty is its own school, the only faculty level unit not to report to Moncton.

Shippigan Campus

Programmes at the Shippigan Campus are grouped under the following sectors: business administration, arts and social sciences; nursing; and, science. All programmes fall under the campus dean of studies.

Libraries

There are six libraries and resource centres across the three campuses: Bibliothèque Champlain, Bibliothèque Michel-Bastarache, , Centre de ressources pédagogiques, Bibliothèque Rhéa-Larose and Bibliothèque Shippagan. All records from these libraries are gathered into one catalogue: Catalogue Éloïze.
Two of these libraries, Michel-Bastarache and Centre de ressources pédagogiques, are special libraries, catering to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Education, respectively. The Centre d'études acadiennes, found on the lower level of Bibliothèque Champlain, is a world-renowned and primary resource and archive centre for Acadian studies.

Athletics

The university is represented in U Sports by the Moncton Aigles Bleu. The Aigles Bleus have a male and female hockey team, a male and female soccer team, a male and female athletics team, a male and female cross country running team and a female volleyball team.

Noted faculty and alumni