Bachelor of Business Administration

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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!

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.