University of Ottawa

At the University of Ottawa we have a multidisciplinary undergraduate (concentration) program in Medieval Studies housed within the Faculty of Aits. Most of the students take it as a second concentration, most frequently with history, literature, or classics. When we took stock of the program in 1994, it was barely alive, with an enrolment that had been consistently under ten students and no attention given to the program in matters of curriculum or publicity for more than a decade. This situation was not surprising, since all of the university's resources and administrative attention flow through departments and our medieval studies program received only what came its way occasionally and incidentally.