Arts, Bachelor

With our versatile Bachelor of Arts, you can select from an extensive range of majors and minors across humanities, social sciences, business, health, and science—approximately 50 options in total. This flexibility ensures your career possibilities remain open while allowing you to pursue both your passion and profession.Shape your future with this interdisciplinary degree by choosing one primary arts major and complementing it with secondary majors, minors, or electives from various university departments. Your primary major will be highlighted on your academic transcript, showcasing your expertise to potential employers. Design your unique educational journey—whether combining sociology with psychology and adding Chinese as an elective, or pairing economics with English, or even crime, justice, and legal studies with linguistics. Regardless of your chosen path, you’ll benefit from instruction by world-class academics and leading researchers dedicated to helping you realize your aspirations.

Ethics is the study of how we should live, what we should value, and how we can identify the right way to act. Social justice asks us to consider how the benefits, burdens, and opportunities involved in living together in societies should be distributed, to ensure fairness while appropriately respecting individual rights and liberties. In the Ethics and Social Justice major you will acquire a firm foundation in theoretical approaches to these important questions. Frameworks and theories from philosophy, social sciences, politics, gender studies, development studies, and law will provide you with ways to analyse inequalities and understand how they are created and reinforced, and to explore the roles of power structures and social coding of various axes of difference. In examining social justice issues from a range of theoretical perspectives, you will gain a robust conceptual understanding along with experience applying concepts in different areas – a skill increasingly important in a rapidly changing world. These skills and areas of knowledge will ultimately allow you to question, and seek to improve, social practices and institutions.