Bachelor of Arts in Economics

at Acadia University Canada

Bachelor Degree in Politics enables the student to become an engaged citizen to understand the working of political systems. At Acadia, studying politics concentrates on getting to know about the problems from time to time and resolving the same with higher potential. 

Acadia offers courses that build up the investigative aptitudes, hypotheses and learning essential for you to get control, culture, law, arrangement, and government in Canada and around the globe. The courses connect with contemporary issues, including harmony and war, condition, advancement, and media. 

The governmental issues office at Acadia is little and affectionate, with an incredible feeling of network. Notwithstanding little class sizes, teachers keep up an open-entryway approach and are constantly anxious to enable you to succeed. We have confidence in helping foster our understudies' development as connected residents and effectively urge you to engage in an assortment of social orders and occasions notwithstanding your investigations.

Community Development is an exciting field of study focused on developing fundamental skills and methodologies that will allow you to work face-to-face with communities and improve conditions for others. This program leads to highly rewarding careers, making a difference to the people in your communities.

Acadia’s Community Development professors share knowledge, provide service, and develop leaders who work for a healthy and just society. Choosing to study community development will help you develop the skills needed to improve quality of life for others and to build active, healthy, sustainable communities. You may choose to maintain a broad focus or specialize in one of four areas: recreation management, community wellness, social activism, and outdoor and adventure education.

You will improve your communication and leadership skills and learn how to work effectively in group and multi-stakeholder settings. You will learn how to work collaboratively within government, political, and economic systems and policies. Your skill set can be applied to various career paths and will appeal to a wide range of employers and sectors.

By following the program of Environmental Geoscience, students will study about the Earth and how it works with the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere. The course can be done at both BSc and BSc (honors) level, with which the students achieve the name of environmental geoscientist.  

The first and second-year focus on the areas of geology majors and for the third year course concentrates in geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology and environmental science. Apart from the department of Earth and Environmental Science, students will also study physics, math and chemistry as well. 

Future perspectives of students pursuing Bachelor of Science in Environmental Geoscience: 

• Environmental Geoscientist
• Hydro-geologist
• Environmental consultant
• Geochemist
• Seismologist

Relevant to this student can also undergo many other careers in mining and oil industries. Environmental Geoscience study ensures understudies will acquire a wide range of experience in this field.

Students interested to explore the dynamics of planet “Earth” and its resources, Bachelor degree in Geology at Acadia will be the best choice. The study of geology helps you to become scientific detective by working with the professors to check and uncover the planet’s past and also predicting the future. 

Students can pursue the program at both BSc and BSc Honors level.  Acadia university syllabus allows the students to become and achieve the highest position as a geologist. Not only students interact with the areas of our planet and its resources but also understudy study about chemistry, math and physics. 

The program avails both theoretical and practical classes for the students to gain more knowledge and aspects of geology.  Pursuing the program of Bachelor in Geology helps you to choose from many future outcomes like geochemist, geophysicist, marine geologist, exploration geologist, petroleum geologist and many other related field to the study of geology.

Sociology is the fascinating study of human societies including social structures and rules, common beliefs and behaviours, social changes over time, the differences that exist between social groups, and society as a whole.

Sociology is one of the most popular programs in the Faculty of Arts at Acadia. We offer a variety of courses that cover a wide range of social issues including anthropology, criminology and deviance, cultural studies, education, issues in families, gender and feminism, health and health care, political economy, race and ethnic relations, research and methodology, social movements, social theory, societal development, and work. The sociology program involves careful inquiry into how societies work. It focuses on social problems and their solutions, and makes sense of the changing world using a variety of cross-cultural, historical and critical approaches.

Our 2 Year Certificate of Applied Science completes the first 2 years of the accredited 4 year Engineering Degree, covering the first 23 courses of the 46 course Engineering Degree.  The CAS can be taken on its own or simultaneously with any program of study offered at Acadia including the BASc.

After completing the CAS at Acadia, and requesting a discipline placement, students are granted automatic acceptance into the 3rd year of the accredited Engineering degree programs at Dalhousie University. The transfer is guaranteed and automatic upon completion of the CAS.  You can specialize in any of the different discipline choices listed below. 

• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical /Computer Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mineral Resource  Engineering

Canadian Studies is a multidisciplinary program intended to acquaint you with different points of view on Canadian culture – its history, political and legitimate frameworks, dialects and societies, for instance. You are pushed to explore Canada from the points of view of orders in the Humanities (Art, English and Theater, French, and History) and the Social Sciences (Economics, Politics, Sociology). This will extend your comprehension of current social, social and political patterns in Canada and their chronicled roots. You will likewise build up an expansiveness of research, perusing and composing abilities that will empower you to make a critical commitment to Canadian culture. It is feasible for you to procure a noteworthy in Canadian examinations alone or to join it with another order to get a twofold major. 

Our accomplished staff will bring their exploration and sentiments into the homeroom and they will urge you to share your thoughts as you obtain the learning and abilities expected to address complex issues confronting society and to comprehend the job Canada plays on the world stage. 

Acadia offers customized instruction and Canadian Studies offers you adaptability in your course choice with the goal that you can investigate what premiums you. One of the primary things you will see when you touch base on grounds is that you are a major piece of your little classes. That expanded degree of contact and cooperation upgrades your learning and improves your association with teachers and individual understudies inside the study hall and past.

Acadia University's School of Nutrition and Dietetics is home to a lively research network and talented workforce who will enable you to build up the learning and aptitudes you'll requirement for a profession in this inexorably significant field. 

You will get a comprehension about nourishment and build up gratefulness for current issues in sustenance and dietetics. You will increase strong information in science and science that is connected to investigations of nourishment and supplement digestion. Joined with courses in territories, for example, measurements, correspondences, brain research, and sustenance training, this foundation sets you up to work successfully with people, families, and networks to design, create and oversee pertinent nourishment programs. 

Outside of the study hall, you can take part in our School's understudy Society (NADS), the Canadian Association of Food Service Professionals (CAFP), Slow Food, Acadia understudy government (ASU), and the Acadia Farm, among numerous different exercises.

The course underlines the significance of sexual orientation consideration in basic territories like legislative issues, social connections, academic action, social articulation and training and furthermore offers community to the understudies. 

This course is offered as a noteworthy and respects in the Faculty of Arts, yet understudies from various resources can seek after a minor in Women's and Gender Studies or as a subsequent major. The understudies can look over four center courses, with the staying of the projects chosen from cross-recorded courses offered in each of the three resources on a rotational premise which implies that an understudy has the chance of taking courses in a scope of various orders, all chose for their consideration of subjects and issues identified with WGS. 

Notwithstanding giving understudies’ balanced training and basic reasoning, perusing and composing abilities, there are numerous professions that depend on a strong comprehension of ladies and sex. For example, you could work for a non-benefit association fund-raising for ladies' causes, counsel ladies at an aggressive behavior at home haven, sort out for gay rights, take a shot at value issues for the administration, address issues of work-family balance in HR at an organization, instruct, act, and even paint!