Bachelor of Science in Economics

at Acadia University Canada

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.

At Acadia you not only get to know about the computer and its technology but also the program enables the students to learn about the designing and implementing the computer systems that solves the real world problems. 

The program of Computer Science concentrates on Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision, Game Design, Theory of Computation and many other related areas in this field. After having a great success by completing the Bachelor degree of Computer Science students can pursue a career in computer graphics, animation, game programming, web application development and many more fields.

Acadia’s Canadian Information Technology Professionals Society (CIPS) verified program makes sure that students receive the best education. By choosing Computer Science degree, students become an important part of the field developing and designing technologies and systems to enhance the lifestyle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contemplating history enables the understudy to find out about the past encounters which empower to comprehend the current circumstances. Considering history at Acadia will enable you to comprehend our cutting edge world and the noteworthy worldwide difficulties we as a whole face. As you increase significant points of view on the past and knowledge into the present, you will create fundamental diagnostic and composing aptitudes. 

At Acadia, courses are offered in the chronicles of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, just as in some specific subjects, for example, war, upheavals, material culture, sexual orientation, science, and the earth. An incredible number of Acadia understudies major ever, while numerous others take history courses as electives and for general intrigue. Graduates utilize their experience in history to seek after vocations in an assortment of zones including training, law, news-casting, business, and government. The distinctions degree enables you to concentrate on increasingly particular research themes and to get ready for further work ever, authentic examinations, and gallery thinks about. 

The accomplished staff of the grounds will urge you to share your thoughts as you gain understanding into past occasions that formed our reality and procure the learning and aptitudes expected to address complex issues confronting society.

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!

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.