Program Snapshot
Top 9 reasons to study SoSA:
- Dynamism. Our program provides students with a rigorous, critical approach to studying the world we live in.
- Two disciplines in one. Sociology and Social Anthropology offers two distinct intellectual and methodological ways to look at people and societies.
- Want social change? We have a strong commitment to scholarship engaged in issues of social justice, inequality and power relations in society.
- Go local or go global. Our faculty immerse you in world cultures through their research in Canada, the Middle East, South America and Asia.
- Get personal. Students find SoSA gives them a critical context for their personal experiences and challenges the common beliefs we hold about the world.
- Improve your people skills. Our courses teach you how to observe, interview and write while being sensitive to bias and cultural difference.
- We teach freedom. Our Major and Honours seminars are self-directed and help focus your research interests.
- Big picture. SoSA examines societies in an interdisciplinary way, combining politics, economics, statistics, history and philosophy.
- Travels well. Our graduates practice social science in all sorts of industries: non-profits, government, media, health, politics and law to name a few.
What will I learn?
Sample courses: Chris Helland’s course Goblins, Ghosts, Gods, Gurus looks at the social impact of everything religious, from voodoo to why people buy prayer beads on E-Bay.
What can I do...?
Be a self-starter: Graduate Jenny Benson runs her own non-profit called the Aninga Project and works in Nova Scotia provincial politics.