Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art

at University of Alberta - Augustana Campus Canada

The Environmental Science program at Augustana focuses on the natural sciences and offers an outdoor or experiential education component, giving you a connection to the physical environment, people, and organisms impacted by our society.

This major is taken as part of a Bachelor of Science degree.

At Augustana, a degree in Psychology will allow you to become well versed in psychological topics. You will be able to understand and use different worldviews, concepts, language, and major theories of the discipline to account for psychological phenomena. This major also offers the ability to pursue a unique, embedded certificate in Community Mental Health. Through this certificate, you will be trained in the principles of mental health, including psychological well-being and neuropsychological disorders, and learn about the types of interventions that are designed to support those with mental illness.

This major is taken as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree. Psychology can also be taken as part of a Bachelor of Science degree. The BA program does not require the same supporting courses in the other sciences as the BSc program.

Augustana Campus, located in Camrose, Alberta, one hour southeast of Edmonton, is home to just over 1,000 students from across Canada and around the world. Augustana offers liberal arts and science degree programs in an intimate and personalized setting, with smaller class sizes and a more flexible academic schedule.

Augustana also offers a modified semester system called The Augustana Calendar. Each semester is comprised of a three-week session studying a single course, followed by a more traditional 11-week session studying up to four courses. This gives you the opportunity to dive deeper into research, travel, and other experiential learning endeavors, while at the same time reducing stress and workload.

This combined degree allows you to complete the first three years of your degree at Augustana, followed by two years on North Campus, in Edmonton. With this program, you will typically do your work experience placements in a rural or small-town school.

As part of this program you must choose a major and minor that can be taught as high school subjects.

Global and Development Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines the interplay of global and local change. The program encourages students to identify the factors that threaten or enhance the development of healthy local communities, of regional, national and international strategies abroad and in Canada.

Students can participate in and observe a variety of international or Canadian communities and community projects. They learn to analyze critically the ecological, political-economic, and socio-cultural impacts of various paradigms of "globalization" and "development" that are shaping our world today. Students gain a better understanding of changes in our world, and begin to develop intellectual and practical skills to make meaningful contributions to their

The Chemistry program at Augustana allows you to learn chemistry in a collaborative setting that emphasizes interaction between professors and fellow students in both the classroom and the lab.

Our laboratory facilities are spacious, newly renovated, and well-equipped, granting senior students direct access to all departmental instrumentation. Senior students also have the opportunity to apply to work as teaching assistants in first-year labs and to participate in fiery and colourful demonstrations.

This major is taken as part of a Bachelor of Science degree. At Augustana, you can also take a Chemistry major as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree.

At Augustana, a degree in Psychology will allow you to become well versed in psychological topics. You will be able to understand and use different worldviews, concepts, language, and major theories of the discipline to account for psychological phenomena. This major also offers the ability to pursue a unique, embedded certificate in Community Mental Health. Through this certificate, you will be trained in the principles of mental health, including psychological well-being and neuropsychological disorders, and learn about the types of interventions that are designed to support those with mental illness.

This major is taken as part of a Bachelor of Science degree. At Augustana, you can also take a Psychology major as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree.

The Computing Science program at Augustana builds foundational knowledge in Python and Java to prepare you for further study in other programming languages, as well as the areas of software engineering, operating systems, computer organization and architecture, algorithms, databases, networks, parallel programming, and computing theory.

This major is taken as part of a Bachelor of Science degree. At Augustana, you can also take a Computing Science major as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree.

In this program, you will be introduced to economic history, its impact on society, and alternative ways of thinking about wealth, well-being, resources, stewardship, and sustainability.

In pursuing this major, you will choose either a General or Math & Economics stream. This major is taken as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Augustana’s Environmental Studies major integrates natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities into one unique program taken as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree.

You will choose to pursue either a General or Outdoor Education stream, granting the opportunity to take an outdoor or experiential education component, including backpacking and canoeing throughout Alberta and the Northwest Territories or studying at our Miquelon Lake Research Station. As a result, you will be equipped to forge a connection to the physical environment, the people, and organisms impacted by our society.

Augustana also offers a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences (Interdisciplinary) degree.