Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

at Acadia University Canada

Acadia’s English program offers more than 40 full- or half-year courses taught by specialists in literary and media studies. Our first-year classes will introduce you to a variety of novels, plays, poems, and essays while providing you with strategies for developing a clear and persuasive writing style. As an upper-year student you will pursue your interests and broaden your experience of literature in courses covering a range of periods, authors, genres, cultures, and critical approaches. There are also several creative writing courses available.

Acadia offers BA and BA honours options, thesis and non-thesis streams, and an award-winning co-operative education program that allows you to integrate your studies with paid work experience. As an English major you will also have the chance to get involved with the Acadia English Society. One of the most active student groups on campus, the English Society hosts activities such as open mic poetry nights and film screenings throughout the year. If you are interested in writing you can contribute to the department's newsletter and our creative arts magazine. As a senior English student you are assigned study carrels and have access to the departmental seminar room and lounge. If you choose to study English at Acadia University you will be selecting a vibrant and friendly program committed to your success.

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• Acadia offers small class sizes which improves interaction with your professors and classmates in and beyond the classroom. Our professors are active researchers and writers committed to helping you imagine and create your own future as an engaged citizen.

A degree in French opens an abundance of profession alternatives, both at home and abroad. The normal compensation for workers who talk both French and English is all things considered 28 percent higher than the pay of representatives who just communicate in English. 

French is one of Canada's two authority dialects and is spoken in various nations around the globe (counting France, Belgium, Switzerland, Haiti, and different African nations). It is utilized by numerous universal establishments, from the United Nations to the European Union and the Organization of American States. The French program at Acadia offers you an expansive scope of courses covering language, culture, and interpretation, just as the writings of France, Quebec, Acadia, French-speaking Africa, and the Caribbean. 

You will find out about written works and societies of French-talking areas around the globe and find what makes these societies uncommon and one of a kind. Educators in the French program at Acadia utilize the most up to date innovation for instructing and learning an unknown dialect.

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.

Financial matters have been traditionally characterized as "the investigation of individuals in the customary business of life. Financial matters give a convincing method to ponder any issue where individuals are engaged with deciding, regardless of whether it's administration approaches that influence the whole nation or the littlest individual issue. Notwithstanding whether the exchange manages disparity and joblessness, or points like nature, sports, human services, and separation, the apparatuses gave by financial aspects enables you to dissect the issue and set forth an educated supposition. 

Consider a degree in financial matters on the off chance that you are an enthusiastic devotee of national and global news or are energetic about the business and account divisions. While from the outset financial aspects may appear to be about the cash, it is on a very basic level a people-centered subject. 

The mission of the Department of Economics is to make a domain where you build up the abilities and experiences expected of a cutting edge financial expert-taught in the aesthetic sciences convention, and where a connection is cultivated that advances instructing, research, and administration, all in an innovatively rich condition. 

The most widely recognized employments open to you upon graduation are in banking, common, administrative and civil government, counseling and various private segment firms. Beginning pay rates for financial aspects graduates will, in general, be better than expected for college graduates. Our alumni additionally have a fantastic reputation regarding proceeding onward to graduate work in financial matters, including at establishments, for example, Oxford, Toronto, UBC, and Queen's, yet in addition in different territories, for example, money, law, and medication.

Acadia's Theater program gives you a solid establishing in theater, just as expert arrangement from employees. There are two standards of concentrate inside the program – execution, and creation. The presentation stream offers you a strong establishment in acting, development, voice, theater history, and emotional writing, and incorporates the chance to perform or to work behind the stage in the creations of the Acadia Theater Company. The generation stream is a multi-disciplinary program that enables you to concentrate your examinations on the behind the stage components of theater rather than on execution. 

The Acadia Theater Company produces two demonstrates a year from the advanced, exemplary and worldwide collection. What's more, the organization arranges a Mini-fest of unique one-act plays every year. These are coordinated, performed, organize oversaw, planned, lit, and costumed by Acadia theater understudies under the supervision of theater workforce.

Mathematics and statistics degree at Acadia provides you to interact with the tools to solve the problems in science, business and humanities. The program allows you to understand the areas of mathematics and statistics. 

Understudies will get to know about the analytical tools and methods which are combined with data collection to model the real world. Also, outside of the classroom, students can also participate in various activities like, mathematical contest, national conferences, and also participating in the events which are organized by the department faculty. 

Relevant career after the completion of this program like financial analyst, health scientist, programmer, statistician, professor, data analyst, cryptanalyst can be pursued by the students. The bachelor program in mathematics and statistics allows the student to be different and understand their caliber by performing various activities.  Students are allowed to gain experience through teaching, consulting or reading courses, research positions, which prepares the student for their better future.

In the event that you've at any point asked why individuals act the manner in which they do, or how you may help individuals change their contemplations and practices to improve things, brain science is a perfect field of concentrate for you. Therapists study cerebrum, conduct, and mental procedures. 

At Acadia, we need to show you how to respond to your own inquiries regarding human conduct and not exactly what others have found out about brain science. You will have the chance to do hands-on mental research right off the bat in your examinations. Class points of confinement of 25 for lab courses and 20 for upper-year workshop courses enable you to think about issues inside and out, in a little gathering climate. Our close program size enables you to become more acquainted with employees and individual understudies well, and for them to become acquainted with you. 

You can seek after either a Bachelor of Science (BSc) or a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in brain science. The passageway prerequisites and the necessities for the major are indistinguishable for both, yet you have the adaptability to choose courses outside your significant that are most appropriate to your interests and vocation objectives. You can complete a minor, or (whenever wanted) a subsequent major, in practice some other order. Future Goals for the applicants: 

• Audiology
• Clinical Psychology
• Counseling
• Health Services
• Human resources
• Law 
• Medicine
• Occupational therapy
• Speech language pathology

Science is frequently depicted as a focal science because of its spotlights on the structure, properties, and blend of an issue – which incorporates for all intents and purposes everything from the plastics we use to the air we inhale, and from the water, we drink to the medication we take. 

By considering science at Acadia, you will end up being a significant piece of driving edge to inquire about in little, hands-on study hall and research facility conditions. You may seek after an Honors BSc in science, a BSc with major in science, and a BSc with twofold major, just as partake in Acadia's honor winning community program. Both the Honors BSc and BSc with major in science are certified by the Canadian Institute of Chemistry, which enables you to satisfy proficient permitting guidelines after graduation. 

You will likewise approach mind-boggling exploration instruments and offices, and the choice to upgrade your post-optional training by seeking free research activities and summer research employments under the supervision of our employees.

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.

By pursuing Acadia’s Bachelor Degree in Mathematics & Statistics, students get to know about the critical tools to solve problems which occur in science, business & humanities. The course provides you with foundational understanding of the topics in mathematics as well as statistics. 

Meantime students can take part in mathematical contests, national conference, and summer research by enjoying the social events hosted by the department. Further, when the course is completed students can go for data analyst, educator, mathematical modeler, health scientist, financial analyst and other relevant career profiles for their future. 

The program encourages you to enhance the experience with the help of teaching, consulting, reading, research positions for your further careers. Easily learn the complex reasoning skills and data collection analysis method by choosing this program in your studies.