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Convocation FastFacts
• UVic’s first convocation ceremony was held
May 25, 1964.
• The colour of the hoods reflects an undergraduate’s
area of study. Arts grads wear scarlet, while fine arts grads don
green. Burgundy is for commerce, pink is for music, gold is for
science, and apricot is for nursing. Education hoods are blue, social
work’s are citron, engineering’s are orange and law’s
are blue-purple.
• The coloured hoods do more than signify field
of study. They’re also a nod to the hoods worn by monks in
the Middle Ages. At that time, monasteries were the centres of higher
education, and monks were the first to “convocate” students
into a select group of scholars.
• BA graduates wear scarlet hoods, in homage to
UVic’s early affiliation with McGill University. The gold and
blue that BSC and BEd students wear, respectively, is to honour
early UBC ties.
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