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Program Snapshot

Top 9 reasons to study SoSA:

  1. Dynamism. Our program provides students with a rigorous, critical approach to studying the world we live in.
  2. Two disciplines in one. Sociology and Social Anthropology offers two distinct intellectual and methodological ways to look at people and societies.
  3. Want social change? We have a strong commitment to scholarship engaged in issues of social justice, inequality and power relations in society.
  4. Go local or go global. Our faculty immerse you in world cultures through their research in Canada, the Middle East, South America and Asia.
  5. Get personal. Students find SoSA gives them a critical context for their personal experiences and challenges the common beliefs we hold about the world.
  6. Improve your people skills. Our courses teach you how to observe, interview and write while being sensitive to bias and cultural difference.
  7. We teach freedom. Our Major and Honours seminars are self-directed and help focus your research interests.
  8. Big picture. SoSA examines societies in an interdisciplinary way, combining politics, economics, statistics, history and philosophy.
  9. 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?

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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...?

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Be a self-starter: Graduate Jenny Benson runs her own non-profit called the Aninga Project and works in Nova Scotia provincial politics.