The Master of Arts in Island Studies (MAIS) at the University of Prince Edward Island is a unique, interdisciplinary, and policy-driven graduate course that critiques islands on their own terms.

The program is open to students from around the world. They come out of undergraduate programs from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and diverse degrees, or with professional workplace experience in the public, private, or resource sectors, and they study a myriad of islands.

Faculty in the MAIS program come from a wide range of departments, ranging from Environmental and Political Studies to English, Education, and Economics.

Search "Master of Arts in Island Studies" to find out what some of our students and professors are doing.

Students are required to take six courses and write a thesis. The three Compulsory Courses, offered annually, are

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Dolores LeVangie is a Master of Arts (Island Studies) student who has travelled to Chiloe Island, Chile. This island is roughly the same size as PEI with a population of around 150,000. Dolores travelled to the remote Williche community of Tweo, which is located on the southern tip of Chiloe and only accessible by boat. In March 2010, she returned to the island to do ethnographic field work for her Master's degree, working at the Williche Health Centre and travelling with the health team doing interviews in various communities.

Dolores plans to examine how “islandness” influences the effects that modernity has on illnesses and treatment in island populations. This research will explore how living on an island impacts the effects that post-colonialism, modernity, and capitalism have on types of illnesses of island populations and how this impacts the medical systems of islands...

Led by English professor Catherine Innes-Parker, 17 UPEI students are exploring literature, art and religious thought in Harlow, England, this semester.

For more information: www.upei.ca/news/media/2009/09/17/upei-students-spend-fall-semester-stud...

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Gotland University, Gotland, Sweden

UPEI maintains an exchange agreement with Malardalen University, Vastaras and Eskilstuna, Sweden

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Universidade de Vigo, Galicia, Spain

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Hogeschool Zuyd, University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with the University of Malta.

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

UPEI's English as a Second Language (ESL) Youth Program is a wonderful opportunity for youth aged 15 to 18 to live on Prince Edward Island for a summer and learn English. The program is open to both Canadian and international students and is available as a three-, four-, or five-week program, commencing each year in mid-July. For international students, the summer is as much an introduction to Canada and Prince Edward Island as it is an opportunity to learn English. Most of our Canadian students receive funding from the Canadian federal government as a bursary to pay for the program.

During the summer months, the Centre for Life-Long Learning also offers opportunities for adults to improve their English conversation skills and study academic English.

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UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with INSEEC Business School, Paris, France

UPEI maintains an exchange agreement with ESC Rennes School of Business in Rennes, France

UPEI maintains formal articulation and student exchange agreements with Misr International University (MIU), Cairo, Egypt. Several student and faculty exchanges have taken place over the past two years. Approximately 20 students from Cairo took classes at UPEI in summer 2008, and a group of UPEI students travelled to Egypt in August 2009.

UPEI maintains a formal Articulation Agreement with Changzhou Institute of Technology, China, via Holland College in Charlottetown

UPEI maintains a formal Articulation Agreement with the Executive Business School (EBS) in Nigeria.

The Prince Edward Island-Tasmania Writers' Exchange is an annual exchange of writers-in-residence between Tasmania and Prince Edward Island, sponsored by the UPEI Dean of Arts, Department of English, and Institute of Island Studies, and the PEI Writers' Guild. Recently returned from his month at the writers' cottage in Hobart is Dr. Richard Lemm from the Department of English. In 2007 Deirdre Kessler was the Island's visiting writer. UPEI hosted Tasmanian poet and publisher Tim Thorne in 2008, and fiction writer Danielle Wood in 2006.

UPEI maintains a Memorandum of Understanding with University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

UPEI maintains an international student exchange agreement with Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

UPEI maintains a student exchange agreement with Soka University, Tokyo, Japan