麦科文大学

Why an arts degree?

You get a definite sense of accomplishment from overcoming obstacles. Discussions that revolve around differing ideas, opinions, perceptions and beliefs energize you. When you think about the future, you don't just want to be prepared for something; you want to be prepared for anything.

An arts degree says that you are a person who likes to challenge and be challenged. You will learn about human nature and the human mind as they are revealed through the arts, the languages and the politics of past and present cultures. By expanding your knowledge and becoming a critical thinker and good communicator, you will be equipped to adapt, learn, analyze, problem-solve and innovate.

What will I study?

A Bachelor of Arts emphasizes both breadth and depth of study and allows you exceptional flexibility and customization. You can complete a major and a minor, a double major, or a major and two minors. You can also adjust the size of your major and minor to explore subjects and disciplines to the extent you want.

Sociology

By investigating social inequality, patterns of behaviour, forces for social change and resistance, and how social systems work, sociologists shed light on a broad scope of social phenomena – family life, street and corporate crime, media influence, employment and unemployment, youth subcultures, peace and war, criminal justice system reforms, multiculturalism, and globalization, just to name a few.

As a liberal arts discipline, sociology provides students with a breadth of knowledge, abilities, and skills - a ‘tool kit’ that can be used in a considerable range of careers, as well as in other roles in life. Graduates develop an understanding of how people’s experiences vary by race, class, gender, age, and other ascribed statuses; an understanding of the impact social institutions have on individuals; the ability to develop evidence-based arguments and write reports understandable to non-sociologists; the ability to use statistics software; and the ability to evaluate different research methods.

Students at MacEwan can graduate with the general Arts degree in Sociology, or specialize in one of two streams of sociological study:

• criminology, or
• family, youth and diversity.

MacEwan also offers a competitive Honours degree, which allows students to develop and implement their own research project.