Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies

at The Kings University Canada

A strong foundation in business starts with an understanding of management, administration, finance, and accounting. At King’s, we take business education one step further by integrating your faith. Emerging social and environmental concerns require tomorrow’s business leaders to find creative solutions. At the Leder School of Business, in addition to foundational knowledge and skills to navigate the business world, you will learn to creatively tackle new challenges that will shape the future – without compromising your core beliefs.

King’s business program offers five streams in general business, accounting, non-profit and social entrepreneurship, small business and entrepreneurship, and environmental management. The program is fully recognized and accredited by academic and industry organizations including Chartered Professional Accountants and the Canadian Institute of Management.

Psychology studies what motivates people to do the things they do and how society affects human thought, learning, and action. Students learn to critically engage assumptions about human nature and understand how these assumptions are important in our modern world and in the light of Christian faith.

Explore cognition and the activities of the mind and examine how physical disorders in the structural and chemical make-up of the brain can lead to behavioural and mental illness challenges. This degree is an excellent choice for those who want to enter professional programs such as law and education.

Program Highlights

• Delve deeper into the human mind. Study distinct topics in psychology such as psychological processes, sensation and perception, child psychology, abnormal psychology and more.
• Apply psychology practically through lab exercises, field trips, and volunteering.
• Participate in field research as part of King's Community Engaged Research program.
• Understand the basic principles of cognitive development.
• Learn how to use psychology to make a difference in the world, and how you can make a difference in psychology.

Cultivate your talents in performance, musicology, aural skills, and more. At King's, you will study the physical aspects of music—including theory and performance techniques—and its aesthetic qualities, as well as answer philosophical questions concerning its nature, origin, and development.

King's Music program guides you to a richer understanding of the role music plays in a well-lived life and engages in the beauty, drama, intellectual rigour, and healing power of western classical music. An equal emphasis is placed on classroom learning and private instrument instruction and you will find countless performance opportunities to hone your craft and do what you love—making music! 

Program Highlights

• Perform in numerous concerts and recitals throughout the course of your program.
• Familiarize yourself with the physical aspects of the art including theory, performance techniques, and music's aesthetic qualities.
• Seek answers to philosophical questions concerning the nature of music, it's origin, and development.
• Take part in choral and instrumental ensemble opportunities.
• Engage in classes consisting of discussions, presentations, and analysis of songs, sounds, and ideas.
• Explore Christianity's influence on the development of music and examine the beauty of music through an informed Christian perspective.

Uncovering the intricate and wide-ranging relationships between organisms and their environments is at the heart of studying biology. At King’s, the biology program guides you to a deeper understanding of the complexity of life, in all its forms, so that you will become a better steward of creation.

Through laboratory experience and hands-on research in the field, students in the biology program study wild and wonderful creatures in their natural habitats, and gain insight into the mechanisms of human health and genetics. Biology students at King’s conduct research in the Rocky Mountains, analyze DNA in our biochemistry lab, and study plant life in our campus greenhouse. From human anatomy to molecular biology, King’s biology program digs deep into the inner workings of life in God’s creation.

Learn more about God's gift of creation and how to protect it for generations to come. King's Environmental Studies (ENVS) B.A. and B.Sc. programs prepare students to address sustainability issues with a broad knowledge of its ecological, social, and economic dimensions. In addition to course work, internships and field trips provide practical, hands-on skills and experiences. The program introduces students to principles and practices for building environmentally sustainable societies and lifestyles by examining the causes of environmental harm, and exploring theories, policies, techniques, and management approaches that support the restoration and flourishing of our planet. 

Through King’s ENVS programs, students develop skills such as mapping, geographical information systems (GIS), environmental impact assessment, policy analysis, statistical analysis, and strong oral and written communication. Both Environmental Studies programs are fully accredited by Eco Canada and equip graduates for future employment in this fast growing and dynamic sector.

Program Highlights

• Choose a program that prepares you for one of the fastest growing employment sectors in Canada.
• Participate in a 13-week internship and apply coursework to real life situations as you prepare for future careers.
• Explore solutions to world-wide environmental challenges through social, ecological, economic, and spiritual avenues. Consider how social justice and environmental health are connected.
• Choose to study the environment from a natural science or arts and humanities perspective. Specialize in an area of environmental studies that you find most interesting.
• Think critically about how civilization impacts the environment and how humans can develop more restorative ways of living on the planet.

Bachelor of Arts: for students interested in the social or human aspects of environmental issues, such as government policy, human behaviour, social change, sustainable business practices, and environmental communication. These interests can be pursued through sub concentrations in Business Administration, Economics and Politics, Sociology, and others.

Political science studies the governance of public communities. The program focuses on political institutions such as the state, executive, courts, and legislatures, and it examines the role of citizens, public officials, interest groups, and political parties within the political system as a whole.

Make a difference in the world by studying a variety of disciplines. The Social Science program will expose students to topics on human health, non-discriminatory economic systems, equitable public policy, various social structures, international relationships, human psychology, and more.

This flexible concentration is excellent preparation for careers in the human services sector, work for social justice agencies, and more. Many students are interested in more than one area of study and find it difficult to choose just one. The Social Science major allows students to adjust their program to areas that interest them most, drawn from economics, political science, sociology, psychology, geography, education, and history.

Program Highlights

• Take the opportunity to incorporate an incredible breadth of courses and interests into your degree with this extremely flexible concentration.
• Expose yourself to a variety of academic disciplines and dig deeper into why society, and our world functions the way that it does.
• Recognize the relationship between theory and real world social phenomena.
• Unpack the causes of chronic social problems (i.e. poverty, inequality, etc.) from different points of view (historical, economic, psychological).
• Discover the concentration as an excellent preparation for many specific fields of study, for instance the Sports and Recreation stream, which prepares you for careers in physical education, kinesiology, and the human body.
• Learn to make decisions that more accurately represent the core principles of your faith, and by extension, bring about a better world for everyone.

Non-profits and voluntary organizations employ 12 percent of Canada’s workforce and contribute $75.9 billion to the nation’s economy. These numbers continue to grow as business approaches are being used to talk about social issues like poverty or the environment. This means there is an increasing demand for business graduates in this sector. Students who choose this stream could get jobs as government policy analysts or sustainability specialists.

Chemistry is about creativity. Chemists design and create new molecules and explore their properties and reactivities. Putting this creative knowledge to work, chemists team up with biologists, pharmacologists, engineers, material scientists, and environmental professionals to reveal the secrets of life’s building blocks.

The program lets students come to a deeper understanding of the molecular world so they can engage with molecules to bring healing to a damaged and hurting world. Learn how to describe, visualize, interact with, and appreciate the molecular world from leading professors in the field and conduct extensive laboratory research projects.

Program Highlights

• Obtain hands-on experience with laboratory tools, software, and procedures used by practicing industry professionals.
• Develop mathematical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Participate in field trips and laboratory experiments as you learn how to synthesize, bond, and create from the building blocks of God's design.
• Learn and work alongside award-winning professors who are committed to your success.
• Prepare for future careers and graduate study through an experiential, research-filled program.
• Immerse yourself in the molecular as you learn to describe, visualize, and interact with it.
• Cultivate a fuller appreciation of how subatomic particles reveal the fingerprints of our Creator.

A central task of philosophy is to criticize and examine to discover truth. Philosophy students at King's dig into valid and invalid forms of reasoning, seek to understand major developments in the history of Western political thought, wrestle with the theory of knowledge, and much more.

How do the ethical and aesthetic problems in the environment affect us as humans? How did St. Augustine in Medieval times think about divinity, or the integration faith and reason? What can be gleaned from Nietzsche's discussion of the causes and consequences of Nihilism? These are the kind of questions students ask as they examine the nature of humankind.