The Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) is a constituent university of the Université du Québec system 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.
Main programs
UQO is the only university in Canada offering the following programs in French:
- Certificates:
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- Visual arts
- Comic strip design
- Cybermuseology
- Graphic design
- Museology and heritage
- Bachelor’s degrees:
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- Arts and design
- Arts and heritage with majors and minors
- Majors:
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- Comic strip design
- Graphic design
- Museology and heritage
- Minors:
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- Approaches to education
- Visual arts
- Comic strip design
- Public communication (Social Sciences minor)
- Cybermuseology
- Graphic design
- Museology and heritage
- Administrative practices
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- 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