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.

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

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Island Studies Journal (ISJ) is a scholarly journal dedicated to the inter-disciplinary study of our “world of islands.” Published twice a year (May and November), the first issue appeared in May 2006. Editor-in-chief is Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino, Canada Research Chair in Island Studies, based at the Institute of Island Studies, UPEI. The international Editorial Board is made up of island studies scholars from over 50 universities and institutions.

The Tourism Research Centre (TRC) is located in the UPEI School of Business and provides Prince Edward Island’s tourism industry with the knowledge, expertise, and research tools required for the Island to establish itself as a premier tourist destination.

The TRC increases tourism research capacity on PEI. In an ever-evolving tourism industry, there is a constant need to inquire about trends and evolving tastes as well as to test assumptions and ideas. The TRC's mandate is to conduct quality tourism research and lead in tourism research education. The TRC analyzes available tourism data; produces industry, government, and academic reports; and broadly distributes value-added information to stakeholders in the industry.

The Centre identifies opportunities and issues that might have an impact on the province’s tourism industry. This research assists tourism’s decision-...

UPEI’s Conference Services unit is a member of the Tourism Charlottetown and the PEI Convention Partnership, an organization that works to promote meetings, conventions, festivals, cruise ship visitation, motorcoach and Fully Independent Travel (FIT), leisure travel, and sport tourism.

In making UPEI residence, classroom, and sports facilities available, UPEI greatly assists Tourism Charlottetown and the PEI Convention Partnership in recruiting large conference and sporting events to the city and province.

The L.M. Montgomery Institute liaises with on-campus groups and organizations in the greater community in order to further its goals of research and education. Two groups with which the Institute works on a regular basis are the Heirs of L.M. Montgomery Inc. and the L.M. Montgomery Heritage Society.

The Institute collaborates with a variety of community partners to research and develop a wide range of activities, festivals, theatre productions, L.M. Montgomery conferences, Seawords creative writing workshop, and a web-based General Store.

More than 700 people from over 150 countries around the world are members of the Kindred Spirits electronic mailing list dedicated to the discussion of the works and life of L.M. Montgomery. The listserv was established in November 1994 by three pioneering Montgomery fans, and it came to the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI in the...