Undergraduate - Course4086 - Bachelor of Social Science

Arts students strive to understand, analyse, describe and explain the human world and their position within it, just as scientist attempt to describe and comprehend the natural world. The Bachelor of Social Science (BSocSci) degree is designed to help students make sense of our rapidly changing global culture.

Equally relevant to the professional world of work and the world of knowledge, the BSocSci aims to provide students with the skills needed to contribute to the social and cultural fabric of the community and to become truly global citizens.

The BSocSci introduces students to a range of study in the humanities and social sciences. While each unit provides an introduction to the specific area of study, skills of analysis, communication and research will also be developed.

Social science studies require students to read, debate, examine and discuss issues, teaching them to carefully build arguments and propositions. Students will be encouraged to think independently and to develop new ways of approaching problems.

Graduates are expected to:

• develop the intellectual capabilities inherent in the interpretation of sources of knowledge
• develop the capacity for quantitative and qualitative analysis, critique and creative thinking in various humanities, arts and social science disciplines
• have an understanding of international trends and of the intellectual context of economic, technological and social change
• develop the skills and attitudes required to undertake life-long learning
• develop an understanding of the present interpretations and potential future developments in the issues underlying the content of and approaches to the disciplines they study

This course consists of a compulsory arts major and arts minor, with additional studies chosen from a variety of arts disciplines.

Students must complete the following:

(a.) an arts major (48 points)

(b.) an arts minor in a different area of study (24 points)

(c.) a first-year arts sequence in a third area of study (12 points)

(d.) another 12 points of arts at first, second or third-year level

(e.) additional units to make up a total of 144 points.

No more than 10 units (60 points) are to be completed at a first-year level.

Students must complete a minimum of 36 points at third-year level (across the duration of the degree).

Students select from:

• child and youth development
• communications
• comparative literature and cultural studies

criminology and criminal justice

• English
• French language and studies
• geography and environmental science
• international studies
• journalism
• philosophy
• psychology
• sociology

Note: The English and French options offer a minor only.

Bachelor of Social Science