Bachelor of Arts in Politics

at Acadia University Canada

Biology is the study of life, and this program offers students exciting opportunities to explore and enhance their understanding of the world in which we live.

By choosing to study biology at Acadia you will work closely with your professors to explore all facets of life – from molecules to ecosystems and from marine to arctic terrestrial systems.

A key component of many labs is the study of whole organisms. Acadia offers a balance of state-of-the art indoor and outdoor laboratory experiences, enhanced by the diversity of local habitats, as well as preserved specimens available from the E.C. Smith Herbarium and Acadia Wildlife Museum.

You will tackle current issues with hands-on learning that integrates theory, techniques, and practical approaches to biology. Our research programs immerse students in a diverse array of topics. Developing critical thinking skills and communicating science are key aspects in our teaching philosophy. Biology students graduate with a comprehensive understanding of whole-organism biology and competency in scientific methodology developed through a process of creativity, independence and ownership of the learning process.

Our small upper-level classes, focus on student-centred learning, and dedication to undergraduate research are only a few of the reasons why so many of our graduates move on to successful careers in the health sciences, environment, education, wildlife, industry, and government.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the German program, you will get comfortable with the German language, syntactic practices, writing, and culture. The capacity to convey in an alternate language widens valuation for different societies and expands your chances in the activity showcase. The investigation of dialects additionally encourages you to create more grounded correspondence and basic reasoning aptitudes, helpful to a wide assortment of callings. 

Acadia offers little class sizes which permit you to improved communication with teachers and schoolmates inside and outside the study hall. Educators in the German program at Acadia utilize the most current innovation in instructing and learning an unknown dialect. By your fourth year, you will have accomplished the vital aptitudes to completely work in a German-talking condition. Classes center around talking, tuning in, and composing, utilizing a mix of sight and sound devices. 

Through extracurricular exercises, you will get the opportunity to inundate yourself in the social existence of German-talking nations. In the event that you are studying German, you will take one year of concentrate in Freiburg, Germany. German is additionally extremely prevalent as a twofold major and as a minor.

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.

Natural and Sustainability Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that will provoke you to join abilities and learning from a wide range of fields. You will pick up an increasingly complete comprehension of normal and human situations, and you will be prepared to lead change. 

Acadia's Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ESST) major creates natural pioneers, directors, and experts who are basic and quick scholars just as inventive issue solvers. We take a stab at you to wind up talented in driving transformational change towards increasingly practical, just, and socially capable ways of life, networks, foundations, and social orders through an expansive scope of profession pathways over the non-benefit, government and private divisions. Your teachers are profitable and regarded analysts and researchers who are completely submerged in tackling basic and squeezing ecological and maintainability issues just as making an invigorating getting the hang of setting. 

ESST is scholastically testing with attention on interdisciplinary discovering that adopts a calculated critical thinking strategy to comprehension and handling real manageability issues in the public eye. Through these encounters, you will further build up your feeling of citizenship, particularly as for ecological and manageable stewardship.