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

at University of Victoria Canada

Physics allows us to understand the world from subatomic to cosmological scales. In this program, you’ll engage in research while working with internationally-recognized faculty. Discover the science that allows us to explain and predict the world around us while developing a valuable range of critical problem-solving skills.

Choose from a wide range of traditional and cutting-edge courses that consider literature from a variety of perspectives. Feed your imagination, challenge your intellect and enhance the pleasure of reading. Our courses, whether in literature or professional communication, develop your ability to write well and to analyze texts effectively.

French is one of Canada's official languages and is spoken by millions of people across five continents. At UVic, you’ll explore everything from cinema and literature, to technology-mediated language learning and translation. You'll reach a high level of written and spoken French and live in a total immersion environment from our departmental office to the classroom.

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.

The Pacific and Asian region has always engaged the world’s curiosity as a cultural and economic powerhouse. Each region—China, Japan, Oceania and Southeast Asia—has its own mix of complex histories, cultural traditions, and vibrant languages. Increase your cultural knowledge by taking classes about this ever-changing region.

Areas of focus

• Japanese studies (minor)
• Chinese studies (minor)
• Pacific and Asian studies (minor)
• Southeast Asian studies (minor)

Sociology introduces students to a wide range of issues relevant to everyone. You’ll learn about the social world by exploring relevant contemporary issues like gender, social media, crime, environmentalism and social inequality. Sociology students develop strong analytical and communication skills that allow them to pursue various opportunities across a wide range of fields.

Areas of focus:-

• Crime
• Family and demography
• Gender
• Health aging
• Law and social control
• Life course
• Sexuality and the body
• Social justice studies (diploma or minor)

Study the impact of recreation and leisure on health, society, and quality of life. Through this interdisciplinary program, you will gain the knowledge and ability to plan, organize and facilitate quality wellness experiences.

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. 

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

Are you wondering how to pronounce words in Kwak’wala? Aiming for a career as a language teacher or a speech-language pathologist? Linguistics offers programs exploring everything from the structure of the world’s languages, to how language is organized in our minds, to how best to teach languages. We are leaders in Indigenous language revitalization programs, in partnership with Indigenous Education at UVic.