Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies

at Acadia University Canada

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.

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.

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.

Bachelor Degree in Politics enables the student to become an engaged citizen to understand the working of political systems. At Acadia, studying politics concentrates on getting to know about the problems from time to time and resolving the same with higher potential. 

Acadia offers courses that build up the investigative aptitudes, hypotheses and learning essential for you to get control, culture, law, arrangement, and government in Canada and around the globe. The courses connect with contemporary issues, including harmony and war, condition, advancement, and media. 

The governmental issues office at Acadia is little and affectionate, with an incredible feeling of network. Notwithstanding little class sizes, teachers keep up an open-entryway approach and are constantly anxious to enable you to succeed. We have confidence in helping foster our understudies' development as connected residents and effectively urge you to engage in an assortment of social orders and occasions notwithstanding your investigations.

Mathematics and statistics degree at Acadia provides you to interact with the tools to solve the problems in science, business and humanities. The program allows you to understand the areas of mathematics and statistics. 

Understudies will get to know about the analytical tools and methods which are combined with data collection to model the real world. Also, outside of the classroom, students can also participate in various activities like, mathematical contest, national conferences, and also participating in the events which are organized by the department faculty. 

Relevant career after the completion of this program like financial analyst, health scientist, programmer, statistician, professor, data analyst, cryptanalyst can be pursued by the students. The bachelor program in mathematics and statistics allows the student to be different and understand their caliber by performing various activities.  Students are allowed to gain experience through teaching, consulting or reading courses, research positions, which prepares the student for their better future.

Study in Philosophy allows you to learn various valuable life skills for both professional and personal lives. Philosophy is all about getting to know about big questions related to life like, the meaning of life, nature of the world around us, and many more.  

Although, when we learn anything it concentrates on ‘what’ but when pursuing the study of Philosophy students mainly focus on ‘why’. Bachelor Degree in Philosophy helps the students to work in various fields like law, politics, business and academia. 

By pursuing this program students get to develop their skills of analyzing, argumentation and clear expression. The rigorous program allows the students to work with complete work skill vitae which further enable them to work in every field with higher capabilities.

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.

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.

The program of Environmental & Sustainability studies allows the students to develop the skills and knowledge from various fields. The program also helps to develop leaders, managers, professionals who are critical thinkers and also problem solvers. 

With the help of this program students will be able to learn more about natural and human environments deeply to lead the world. The faculty teaching at Acadia University is researchers, scholars who help the students to create a stimulating learning environment. 

ESST is scholastically testing with attention on interdisciplinary discovering that adopts an applied critical thinking strategy to comprehension and handling significant maintainability issues in the public eye. Our experiential learning approach serves to incorporate both the calculated and connected parts of the program.

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.