Bachelor of Arts in Politics

at Acadia University Canada

Acadia’s English program offers more than 40 full- or half-year courses taught by specialists in literary and media studies. Our first-year classes will introduce you to a variety of novels, plays, poems, and essays while providing you with strategies for developing a clear and persuasive writing style. As an upper-year student you will pursue your interests and broaden your experience of literature in courses covering a range of periods, authors, genres, cultures, and critical approaches. There are also several creative writing courses available.

Acadia offers BA and BA honours options, thesis and non-thesis streams, and an award-winning co-operative education program that allows you to integrate your studies with paid work experience. As an English major you will also have the chance to get involved with the Acadia English Society. One of the most active student groups on campus, the English Society hosts activities such as open mic poetry nights and film screenings throughout the year. If you are interested in writing you can contribute to the department's newsletter and our creative arts magazine. As a senior English student you are assigned study carrels and have access to the departmental seminar room and lounge. If you choose to study English at Acadia University you will be selecting a vibrant and friendly program committed to your success.

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• Acadia offers small class sizes which improves interaction with your professors and classmates in and beyond the classroom. Our professors are active researchers and writers committed to helping you imagine and create your own future as an engaged citizen.

The inventive Bachelor of Music certificate gives understudies the chance to think about impromptu creation, old-style and world music all while discovering their own extraordinary voice inside the universes of execution, organization, training or musicology. Our Bachelor of Arts in Music (BAM) understudies can likewise seek after a twofold major or a distinctions alternative. The Bachelor of Music Therapy (BMT) degree is novel to Eastern Canada. Understudies who are keen on seeking after Music Therapy at Acadia will enter as a Bachelor of Music understudy, total the regular center necessities and apply to the School toward the second's end year of concentrate for the acknowledgment to this program. For understudies who as of now have a finished undergrad music degree and are keen on music treatment, Acadia additionally offers a Certificate in Music Therapy. 

In all projects found in the School of Music, you will work intimately with educators and expert instructing artists to create skill in your picked territory. The School of Music offers a complete music education plan where understudies create ability in a picked zone of specialization while being urged to expand their perspectives inside our numerous various course contributions. The essential educational plan joins courses in music hypothesis, music history and culture, musicianship aptitudes, console abilities, impromptu creation, structure, concentrated gatherings, and one-on-one music exercises with expert instructors. The point is to graduate balanced artists who can flourish in an assortment of expert settings.

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.

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.

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.

Bachelor of Arts-Classical Studies allows you to know and explore the ancient civilizations that had shaped the modern world. 

The program allows the student to learn about the modern world and the global challenges we are facing. The program concentrates on the areas of archaeology, mythology and cultural legacy of Greece and Rome. Students need to develop a language skill in Greek and Latin in order to pursue the program.

The program mainly focuses on classical writing and reading, whereas in fourth year of the program students will be able to write an honor thesis depending on the primary research in the area of their interest. 

It will outfit you with a strong establishing in the humanities and can be put to great use in numerous careers and your expert advancement like archivist, civil servant, historian, journalist, lawyer, policy analyst etc.

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.

Acadia's material science program is the investigation of the interrelationships and associations which are principal to see how the world functions. By understanding these standards, material science graduates have generally grown new ideas and new advances that have empowered them to effortlessly move crosswise over controls to handle genuine issues in numerous fields. 

After the principal year of study, paid understudy positions are accessible as assistance focus guides and as lab collaborators. Following the second and third years, various open doors exist for paid summer research ventures, either locally or at a worldwide research office, like CERN, that may frame some portion of an undergrad postulation. Gathering work, instructing in labs or the assistance focus, understudy class introductions, summer research, and interest in meetings all add to your obtaining of the important research and relational abilities to seek after alumni examine or secure business. 

Essentially put by Acadia's devoted teachers – material science is everything. From contemplating stars past our planet to clarifying the state of a water bed, a degree in material science causes you to comprehend and clarify our reality.