Interim Dean's message
Welcome to the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University. We offer an array of fantastic undergraduate and graduate programs. We are a young, dynamic university that attracts students unafraid to blaze their own paths.
Our graduates are thriving professionally in a variety of domains that include the public service, the not-for-profit sector, the law, and health services, along with the criminal justice system, academia, teaching, business, communications, and the arts. We’re a future-facing university. Our Faculty is at the heart of the Ontario Tech difference.
You see: our university’s motto is “Tech with a Conscience”. Scrolling Instagram, you’ve got tech at your fingertips. Picture Pinocchio and the idea of conscience is now right at the end of your nose: it’s the part of ourselves that feels different when we stop doing what we know is the right thing to do.
The siren of tech— of its promise and profits— can drown out the voice of conscience, leave our own lights scattered in the smartphone’s glow.
These technologies—these extensions of ourselves—give us more power. Power to read, to think, to do. At the same time, they can extend the power of others over us, through the way they produce information, promote ideas, and influence choices.
In the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, questions we ask about technology, about power and justice, about communication and criminalization, about the mind and the body, our communities and the planet, are grounded, as our name conveys, in the social and the human.
Studying with us, you learn theories and methods, broadening and deepening your knowledge, while sharpening your creative, critical thinking and communication skills. Our aim is not to tell you what to think but to help you discover how well you can think for yourself, so you can help make a positive difference in the lives of others. How do we do this? Our professors are passionate university teachers who integrate their cutting-edge research into our classrooms. Our graduates are creative, experienced, versatile leaders.
What this world needs now more than ever is people with knowledge, imagination, compassion, and courage. That’s what we’re about at the FSSH—cultivating conditions for students to flourish.
Studying with us means finding your feet on a launch pad for your curiosity, as well as for your future career. Graduating from Ontario Tech University, you re-discover that the most valuable thing you’re leaving with is something you brought to university in the first place: the capacity and drive, patience and understanding, to be who you are meant to be.
Come to the Faculty of Ontario Tech where our purpose is to foster the pursuit of knowledge that enables us to learn and live, each in our own unique way, together. As a university, as a society, how that happens depends on the part you decide to play. Join us and make the FSSH at Ontario Tech your own.
Dr. Thomas McMorrow
Associate Professor and Interim Dean