Acadia University

Community Development is an exciting field of study focused on developing fundamental skills and methodologies that will allow you to work face-to-face with communities and improve conditions for others. This program leads to highly rewarding careers, making a difference to the people in your communities.

Acadia’s Community Development professors share knowledge, provide service, and develop leaders who work for a healthy and just society. Choosing to study community development will help you develop the skills needed to improve quality of life for others and to build active, healthy, sustainable communities. You may choose to maintain a broad focus or specialize in one of four areas: recreation management, community wellness, social activism, and outdoor and adventure education.

You will improve your communication and leadership skills and learn how to work effectively in group and multi-stakeholder settings. You will learn how to work collaboratively within government, political, and economic systems and policies. Your skill set can be applied to various career paths and will appeal to a wide range of employers and sectors.

Canadian Studies is a multidisciplinary program intended to acquaint you with different points of view on Canadian culture – its history, political and legitimate frameworks, dialects and societies, for instance. You are pushed to explore Canada from the points of view of orders in the Humanities (Art, English and Theater, French, and History) and the Social Sciences (Economics, Politics, Sociology). This will extend your comprehension of current social, social and political patterns in Canada and their chronicled roots. You will likewise build up an expansiveness of research, perusing and composing abilities that will empower you to make a critical commitment to Canadian culture. It is feasible for you to procure a noteworthy in Canadian examinations alone or to join it with another order to get a twofold major. 

Our accomplished staff will bring their exploration and sentiments into the homeroom and they will urge you to share your thoughts as you obtain the learning and abilities expected to address complex issues confronting society and to comprehend the job Canada plays on the world stage. 

Acadia offers customized instruction and Canadian Studies offers you adaptability in your course choice with the goal that you can investigate what premiums you. One of the primary things you will see when you touch base on grounds is that you are a major piece of your little classes. That expanded degree of contact and cooperation upgrades your learning and improves your association with teachers and individual understudies inside the study hall and past.

A degree in French opens an abundance of profession alternatives, both at home and abroad. The normal compensation for workers who talk both French and English is all things considered 28 percent higher than the pay of representatives who just communicate in English. 

French is one of Canada's two authority dialects and is spoken in various nations around the globe (counting France, Belgium, Switzerland, Haiti, and different African nations). It is utilized by numerous universal establishments, from the United Nations to the European Union and the Organization of American States. The French program at Acadia offers you an expansive scope of courses covering language, culture, and interpretation, just as the writings of France, Quebec, Acadia, French-speaking Africa, and the Caribbean. 

You will find out about written works and societies of French-talking areas around the globe and find what makes these societies uncommon and one of a kind. Educators in the French program at Acadia utilize the most up to date innovation for instructing and learning an unknown dialect.

In the German program, you will get comfortable with the German language, syntactic practices, writing, and culture. The capacity to convey in an alternate language widens valuation for different societies and expands your chances in the activity showcase. The investigation of dialects additionally encourages you to create more grounded correspondence and basic reasoning aptitudes, helpful to a wide assortment of callings. 

Acadia offers little class sizes which permit you to improved communication with teachers and schoolmates inside and outside the study hall. Educators in the German program at Acadia utilize the most current innovation in instructing and learning an unknown dialect. By your fourth year, you will have accomplished the vital aptitudes to completely work in a German-talking condition. Classes center around talking, tuning in, and composing, utilizing a mix of sight and sound devices. 

Through extracurricular exercises, you will get the opportunity to inundate yourself in the social existence of German-talking nations. In the event that you are studying German, you will take one year of concentrate in Freiburg, Germany. German is additionally extremely prevalent as a twofold major and as a minor.

Contemplating history enables the understudy to find out about the past encounters which empower to comprehend the current circumstances. Considering history at Acadia will enable you to comprehend our cutting edge world and the noteworthy worldwide difficulties we as a whole face. As you increase significant points of view on the past and knowledge into the present, you will create fundamental diagnostic and composing aptitudes. 

At Acadia, courses are offered in the chronicles of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, just as in some specific subjects, for example, war, upheavals, material culture, sexual orientation, science, and the earth. An incredible number of Acadia understudies major ever, while numerous others take history courses as electives and for general intrigue. Graduates utilize their experience in history to seek after vocations in an assortment of zones including training, law, news-casting, business, and government. The distinctions degree enables you to concentrate on increasingly particular research themes and to get ready for further work ever, authentic examinations, and gallery thinks about. 

The accomplished staff of the grounds will urge you to share your thoughts as you gain understanding into past occasions that formed our reality and procure the learning and aptitudes expected to address complex issues confronting society.