Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies (Optional Co-op)

at University of Victoria Canada

Health Information Science bridges the worlds of health care, management and technology. It includes developing and managing the latest information technology applications securely and effectively within health care organizations. Specialize in applying your people skills through your knowledge of systems. You’ll identify information and data needed by health care professionals and how they are used in order to optimize health care and improve health care decisions.

Explore the impact of political decisions and the effects they have on us as individuals and as a society. You will focus on critical issues including Indigenous politics, minority rights and identity, migration and refugee movements, privacy and surveillance, democracy, human security, and international law.

Areas of focus:-

• European Studies

This program will give you a comprehensive understanding of computational systems and software. Computer scientists use their problem-solving skills to work in finance, health care, film, music, gaming, aviation and almost every other industry. As an ever-expanding field of study, a computer science degree provides you with exceptional career opportunities.

Areas of focus:-

• Computer communications and networks
• Computer graphics and gaming
• Software engineering
• Theory

History is serious business. Many conflicts are the result of historical myths passed off as truths to those without the tools to evaluate them critically. The ability to recall and evaluate the past is fundamental to the functioning of human society. We need to understand the paths that brought societies to where they are today. History gives us the tools to reflect on who we are, where we have come from, and where we might go.

Healthy minds live in healthy bodies. In fact, research has shown that regular cardiovascular exercise boosts the brainpower of humans by improving blood flow to the brain. Explore the growing field of wellness, exercise training and skilled movement. You will study physical activity from a variety of scientific perspectives and apply that knowledge in sport, recreation and rehabilitative settings.

Economics is a way of thinking, analyzing society’s choices given limited resources, using quantitative and analytic tools. These tools are used to address a wide range of issues, e.g., markets, health, environment, finance, and public policy. We offer major and honours BA or BSc programs, with the possibility of a business or finance option, and a double major in Financial Mathematics and Economics.

Areas of focus:-

• Business economics
• Financial economics

Keen to make a positive impact in the lives of children, youth, families and communities? Discover a world of diverse career opportunities as you develop practice skills, knowledge and self-awareness. Choose child protection, early years or Indigenous specializations within your degree. Enjoy our learning community of collaboration, mutual respect and accountability.

Computer engineers focus their skills on computer systems, especially the interaction between the hardware and software components of those systems. They also have a strong background in software design and understand the interface between different pieces of hardware and how computer systems integrate into the larger picture.

Areas of focus

• Communications
• Computational intelligence
• Computer systems
• Digital and embedded systems
• Digital signal processing
• Electrical energy systems
• Electromagnetics and photonics
• Electronics
• Mechatronics
• Networks security and privacy

Like working with music technology? Interested in adapting—and adopting—technical advancements? Work alongside professional recording engineers, music faculty and computer scientists to learn acoustics, recording techniques, sound synthesis and music manipulation. You'll explore synthesizers, samplers and 3-dimensional controllers to create and deliver new styles of music in new formats. 

Storytelling is the one of the most fundamental and ancient ways of making meaning of our world, and your ability to communicate is critical to success in life and work. You’ll discover the joy of crafting vivid language, images, characters and details into stories, poems, stage plays and films to inspire readers and audiences to feel and think deeply—and to change the world in the process.

Areas of focus:-

• Creative non-fiction
• Fiction
• Playwriting
• Poetry
• Screenwriting