Bachelor of Arts in History

at Acadia University Canada

The course underlines the significance of sexual orientation consideration in basic territories like legislative issues, social connections, academic action, social articulation and training and furthermore offers community to the understudies. 

This course is offered as a noteworthy and respects in the Faculty of Arts, yet understudies from various resources can seek after a minor in Women's and Gender Studies or as a subsequent major. The understudies can look over four center courses, with the staying of the projects chosen from cross-recorded courses offered in each of the three resources on a rotational premise which implies that an understudy has the chance of taking courses in a scope of various orders, all chose for their consideration of subjects and issues identified with WGS. 

Notwithstanding giving understudies’ balanced training and basic reasoning, perusing and composing abilities, there are numerous professions that depend on a strong comprehension of ladies and sex. For example, you could work for a non-benefit association fund-raising for ladies' causes, counsel ladies at an aggressive behavior at home haven, sort out for gay rights, take a shot at value issues for the administration, address issues of work-family balance in HR at an organization, instruct, act, and even paint!

Environmental science students explore the complex relationships between humans and the environment, drawing on a diverse range of disciplines. This is your opportunity to study some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

You can study environmental science at both the BSc and BSc (honours) level. Acadia’s program is accredited by Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) Canada. It includes a core of courses at the first and second year levels in biology, earth science and chemistry, with a central theme of environmental science courses that provide a thread tying the other courses together. Focus areas in the four-year program may be designed to address your individual needs but can also be selected from ecology, conversation biology, environmental geoscience, environmental policy and sustainable development. The degree requires an intensive field course in environmental science and a thesis project for honours students. An award-winning co-op option is also available that lets you alternate work terms with study terms, meaning you can earn while you learn.

Our 2 Year Certificate of Applied Science completes the first 2 years of the accredited 4 year Engineering Degree, covering the first 23 courses of the 46 course Engineering Degree.  The CAS can be taken on its own or simultaneously with any program of study offered at Acadia including the BASc.

After completing the CAS at Acadia, and requesting a discipline placement, students are granted automatic acceptance into the 3rd year of the accredited Engineering degree programs at Dalhousie University. The transfer is guaranteed and automatic upon completion of the CAS.  You can specialize in any of the different discipline choices listed below. 

• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical /Computer Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mineral Resource  Engineering

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.

The F.C. Manning School of Business Administration offers both an exhaustive comprehension of business basics and the chance to seek after your decision of specialization. Working intimately with your educators, you can study bookkeeping, business innovation the board, work relations, enterprise and development, account, and advertising. You have the chance to grow and apply your homeroom learning through investigation abroad chances, community positions, and tasks with nearby undertakings. Students have protected vocations with a portion of the world's most lofty associations, or have proceeded to begin their very own effective endeavors. 

The business offers the ideal mix of scholarly test and group/task center, making this program engaging on the off chance that you are looking for a focused, yet communitarian, learning condition. A horde of vocation decisions anticipates you as an Acadia business graduate. 

The committee staff endeavors to create graduates who seek after their vocations with honesty, activity, and scholarly interest. You will almost certainly impart expertly, adjust to change, and work both autonomously and co-operatively. You will enter the working scene with an innovative frame of mind, extraordinary involvement in gathering situations, and the capacity to lead change.

Acadia's Theater program gives you a solid establishing in theater, just as expert arrangement from employees. There are two standards of concentrate inside the program – execution, and creation. The presentation stream offers you a strong establishment in acting, development, voice, theater history, and emotional writing, and incorporates the chance to perform or to work behind the stage in the creations of the Acadia Theater Company. The generation stream is a multi-disciplinary program that enables you to concentrate your examinations on the behind the stage components of theater rather than on execution. 

The Acadia Theater Company produces two demonstrates a year from the advanced, exemplary and worldwide collection. What's more, the organization arranges a Mini-fest of unique one-act plays every year. These are coordinated, performed, organize oversaw, planned, lit, and costumed by Acadia theater understudies under the supervision of theater workforce.

Natural and Sustainability Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that will provoke you to join abilities and learning from a wide range of fields. You will pick up an increasingly complete comprehension of normal and human situations, and you will be prepared to lead change. 

Acadia's Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ESST) major creates natural pioneers, directors, and experts who are basic and quick scholars just as inventive issue solvers. We take a stab at you to wind up talented in driving transformational change towards increasingly practical, just, and socially capable ways of life, networks, foundations, and social orders through an expansive scope of profession pathways over the non-benefit, government and private divisions. Your teachers are profitable and regarded analysts and researchers who are completely submerged in tackling basic and squeezing ecological and maintainability issues just as making an invigorating getting the hang of setting. 

ESST is scholastically testing with attention on interdisciplinary discovering that adopts a calculated critical thinking strategy to comprehension and handling real manageability issues in the public eye. Through these encounters, you will further build up your feeling of citizenship, particularly as for ecological and manageable stewardship.

Biology is the study of life, and this program offers students exciting opportunities to explore and enhance their understanding of the world in which we live.

By choosing to study biology at Acadia you will work closely with your professors to explore all facets of life – from molecules to ecosystems and from marine to arctic terrestrial systems.

A key component of many labs is the study of whole organisms. Acadia offers a balance of state-of-the art indoor and outdoor laboratory experiences, enhanced by the diversity of local habitats, as well as preserved specimens available from the E.C. Smith Herbarium and Acadia Wildlife Museum.

You will tackle current issues with hands-on learning that integrates theory, techniques, and practical approaches to biology. Our research programs immerse students in a diverse array of topics. Developing critical thinking skills and communicating science are key aspects in our teaching philosophy. Biology students graduate with a comprehensive understanding of whole-organism biology and competency in scientific methodology developed through a process of creativity, independence and ownership of the learning process.

Our small upper-level classes, focus on student-centred learning, and dedication to undergraduate research are only a few of the reasons why so many of our graduates move on to successful careers in the health sciences, environment, education, wildlife, industry, and government.