Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

at Acadia University Canada

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.

Are you eager to know about the human behavior? Then, doing a Bachelor degree in Psychology at Acadia University is the best option.  The program helps you to know your own questions about human behavior and to do psychological research later in your studies. 

Becoming Psychologist allows you to study the brain, behavior and the mental activities. Students who are keen to know about the stuff happening inside the brain, Psychology is an ideal filed for them. Applicant may apply for Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. 

Acadia University also offers Neuroscience, which focus on the nervous system and also the applied option concentrating on the management of human behavior. Future careers after completing the program which can be pursued by the students like audiology, clinical psychology, counseling, law, medicine, occupational therapy, research, school psychology, social work, speech language pathology etc. 

In case, you meet the requirements, you can pursue Honors in this field to closely work with the faculty member to complete the full year research project.  You will not only be a researcher but you will be a creator to something which is an original piece of research.

By following the program of Environmental Geoscience, students will study about the Earth and how it works with the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere. The course can be done at both BSc and BSc (honors) level, with which the students achieve the name of environmental geoscientist.  

The first and second-year focus on the areas of geology majors and for the third year course concentrates in geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology and environmental science. Apart from the department of Earth and Environmental Science, students will also study physics, math and chemistry as well. 

Future perspectives of students pursuing Bachelor of Science in Environmental Geoscience: 

• Environmental Geoscientist
• Hydro-geologist
• Environmental consultant
• Geochemist
• Seismologist

Relevant to this student can also undergo many other careers in mining and oil industries. Environmental Geoscience study ensures understudies will acquire a wide range of experience in this field.

The study of people in the ordinary business life is classically defined as Economics. If you are very desperate to know about the national and international news or finance or business sector, then Bachelor’s degree in Economics is the right choice for you. 

Life is all about the never ending question of like how to spend the weekend, do I need to start a family etc. with the help of this field you will be able to get answers and think critically about the issues.  The department of Economics creates an environment where you can enhance the skills and bits of knowledge expected of a cutting edge financial specialist taught in the human sciences convention, and where cooperation is encouraged that advances instructing, research, and administration, all in an innovatively rich condition.

Future careers after pursuing the course can be; banking professional, budget analyst, financial analyst, economist, industry analyst, market research analyst, sales engineer, policy analyst, urban planner and many more. 

Financial matters at Acadia offer a scope of choices including both the BA and the BSc with significant, twofold major. It likewise takes an interest in Acadia's honor winning co-employable training program through which you get acknowledgment for paid work experience identified with financial aspects.

Sociology is the fascinating study of human societies including social structures and rules, common beliefs and behaviours, social changes over time, the differences that exist between social groups, and society as a whole.

Sociology is one of the most popular programs in the Faculty of Arts at Acadia. We offer a variety of courses that cover a wide range of social issues including anthropology, criminology and deviance, cultural studies, education, issues in families, gender and feminism, health and health care, political economy, race and ethnic relations, research and methodology, social movements, social theory, societal development, and work. The sociology program involves careful inquiry into how societies work. It focuses on social problems and their solutions, and makes sense of the changing world using a variety of cross-cultural, historical and critical approaches.

Acadia University's School of Nutrition and Dietetics is home to a lively research network and talented workforce who will enable you to build up the learning and aptitudes you'll requirement for a profession in this inexorably significant field. 

You will get a comprehension about nourishment and build up gratefulness for current issues in sustenance and dietetics. You will increase strong information in science and science that is connected to investigations of nourishment and supplement digestion. Joined with courses in territories, for example, measurements, correspondences, brain research, and sustenance training, this foundation sets you up to work successfully with people, families, and networks to design, create and oversee pertinent nourishment programs. 

Outside of the study hall, you can take part in our School's understudy Society (NADS), the Canadian Association of Food Service Professionals (CAFP), Slow Food, Acadia understudy government (ASU), and the Acadia Farm, among numerous different exercises.

Science is frequently depicted as a focal science because of its spotlights on the structure, properties, and blend of an issue – which incorporates for all intents and purposes everything from the plastics we use to the air we inhale, and from the water, we drink to the medication we take. 

By considering science at Acadia, you will end up being a significant piece of driving edge to inquire about in little, hands-on study hall and research facility conditions. You may seek after an Honors BSc in science, a BSc with major in science, and a BSc with twofold major, just as partake in Acadia's honor winning community program. Both the Honors BSc and BSc with major in science are certified by the Canadian Institute of Chemistry, which enables you to satisfy proficient permitting guidelines after graduation. 

You will likewise approach mind-boggling exploration instruments and offices, and the choice to upgrade your post-optional training by seeking free research activities and summer research employments under the supervision of our employees.

By pursuing Acadia’s Bachelor Degree in Mathematics & Statistics, students get to know about the critical tools to solve problems which occur in science, business & humanities. The course provides you with foundational understanding of the topics in mathematics as well as statistics. 

Meantime students can take part in mathematical contests, national conference, and summer research by enjoying the social events hosted by the department. Further, when the course is completed students can go for data analyst, educator, mathematical modeler, health scientist, financial analyst and other relevant career profiles for their future. 

The program encourages you to enhance the experience with the help of teaching, consulting, reading, research positions for your further careers. Easily learn the complex reasoning skills and data collection analysis method by choosing this program in your studies.

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.

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.