Bachelor of Science in Statistics(Co-op Optional)

at University of Victoria Canada

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.

This program prepares you for a successful career that spans industries by combining theory and deep technical knowledge with teamwork and soft skills. Our program emphasizes the design, analysis, and testing of large scale, embedded, and real-time software systems for correctness, performance, usability, safety, security and cost effectiveness.

Areas of focus

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Cybersecurity and privacy
• Data mining and analysis
• Interaction design and data visualization
• Performance and scalability
• Visual computing (vision/graphics/gaming)

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

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

Learn about cutting-edge topics such as proteomics, genomics, gene expression and development, metabolic diseases and bioinformatics. You have the opportunity to become proficient in technical skills through highly rated laboratory techniques courses, a successful cooperative education program and courses that allow you to conduct experimental research under the guidance of a department member.

Anthropology explores the diversity of human lifeways, past and present. Study how cultural contexts shape who we are, our long-term human histories, and our evolutionary relationships. We draw on humanist and scientific perspectives of socio-cultural anthropology, archaeology and biological anthropology.

Areas of focus:-

• Evolution and ecology
• Inequality
• Culture and health
• Space
• Place
• Knowledge and power
• Visual anthropology and materiality

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

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. 

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.

Learn about cutting-edge topics such as immunology, mechanisms of infectious disease, genetic engineering and biotechnology. You have the opportunity to become proficient in technical skills through highly rated laboratory training, a successful o-op program and courses where you will conduct experimental research under the guidance of a department member.