St Peter's College University of Saskatchewan

St Peter's College was established by Benedictine monks of St. Peter's Abbey in 1921.[1] St. Peter's Abbey was founded in 1903 on the same site as the college. From 1921 until 1972 the College also offered a boys high school program.[2] Today the college offers the first two years of the University of Saskatchewan Arts and Science program. The College is located in a rural setting, approximately a one-hour drive from the University of Saskatchewan campus The college became affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in 1926.The university component of the College began in 1926 when the College administration and President Walter Murray of the University of Saskatchewan agreed on affiliation. Initially, courses stressed the classics: Latin and Greek, as well as other disciplines designed for candidates who might join the ranks of the priesthood. While class offerings changed slightly over the next forty years, the "second-year" arts program remained virtually intact until the mid 1960s.In 1966 the arts program became co-educational and this heralded the beginning of a slow but steady increase in the numbers of students taking university classes.With the end of the high school era in 1972, greater emphasis was placed on expanding the university program. Since then, there has been a marked increase in social science, natural science, fine art, and humanities courses available.