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Designing Your Degree

King’s and neighbouring Dalhousie University share a Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Drawing from this partnership, you can build a combined and customized Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree that reflects your individual interests. You can begin any arts degree program with the Foundation Year Program (FYP), a unique curated first-year experience that inspires your choices of what to study in second, third and fourth year. You will have FYP lectures 4 days a week with Tuesdays free for your elective. FYP counts for four of your five first-year credits; typically, you would take one elective either through King’s or Dalhousie. Alternately, you can begin your degree under the Undeclared option and work towards your first year general requirements through 5 individual courses per term.  

Majors and Honours

After your first year, you can pursue a major or honours Bachelor of Arts degree in any of the programs offered by King’s and Dalhousie’s shared Faculty of Arts and Social Science and King’s Honours Programs. King’s and Dalhousie together deliver unmatched depth and variety. You can pursue programs in the following subjects below. Additionally, you may take some programs that are offered by the Faculty of Science as a BA. You may also combine studies across arts disciplines, or with some programs offered by the Faculty of Science, through a double major or combined honours degree. The subjects available include:

Actuarial Sciences*

Program options: Minor, Double Major, Combined Honours

Biology*

Program options: Minor, Major, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Canadian Studies

Program options: Minor, Double Major, Combined Honours

Chemistry*

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Cinema & Media Studies

Program options: Major, Double Major, Combined Honours

Classics

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Contemporary Studies (K)

Program options: Minor, Combined Honours

Costume Studies

Program options: Concentrated Honours, Diploma

Creative Writing

Program options: Minor, Double Major (second subject only), Combined Honours (second subject only)

Early Modern Studies (K)

Program options: Minor, Combined Honours

Earth Sciences*

Program options: Minor, Major, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Economics*

Program options: Minor, Major, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

English

Program options: Minor, Major, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Environment, Sustainability and Society

Program options: Minor, Double Major, Combined Honours, Co-Op

Environmental Science*

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

European Studies

Program options: Major, Concentrated Honours

French

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Gender and Women’s Studies

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

German

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

History

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

History of Science and Technology (K)

Program options: Minor, Combined Honours

International Development Studies

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Law, Justice and Society

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Marine Biology*

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Music

Program options: Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Mathematics*

Program options: Minor, Double Major

Ocean Sciences*

Program options: Minor, Double Major

Philosophy

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Physics & Atmospheric Sciences*

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Political Science

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Psychology*

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Religious Studies

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Combined Honours

Russian Studies

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Sociology and Social Anthropology

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Spanish

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Statistics*

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Concentrated Honours, Combined Honours

Theatre – Costume Studies

Program options: Concentrated Honours

Theatre — Stage Design & Technical Theatre

Program options: Concentrated Honours

Theatre

Program options: Major, Minor, Double Major, Combined Honours

Theatre – Acting

Program options: Concentrated Honours

Theatre — Theatre Studies

Program options: Concentrated Honours

*Science subject area available in a BA. 

Make sure to consult the Academic Calendar for the year you started your program for specific requirements and subject availability within your particular program combination.  If you have any questions or require guidance or further information on program options and requirements, please contact the Registrar’s Office at registrar@ukings.ca or consult the department advisor for your subject area(s) of interest. 

 


Minors

You can choose from more than 75 minors to complement your degree. 

King’s offers minors in each of its honours subjects:

Minor in Journalism Studies

Curiosity, a willingness to ask questions, and a desire to find and tell stories–these are the building blocks for those who want to study journalism.

Minor in Contemporary Studies

Understand the contemporary world by choosing from a wide range of courses in the areas of social and political thought, science and culture, and aesthetics, literature and literary theory, and film.

Minor in Early Modern Studies

Engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of the birth of the modern world.

Minor in History of Science and Technology

Studying science through this humanities-based approach demonstrates your seriousness to engage with one of the dominant paradigms of our time.

 

Find out more about minors

 


Certificates

Build skills in a specialized area of study by adding a certificate to your degree. You can take King’s courses as part of a certificate in Medical Humanities or Art History & Visual Culture, or choose from many more certificates offered through our partnership with Dalhousie.

 

Find out more about certificate programs

 

“I am still pinching myself about how lucky I was to have gone to King’s. Spending four years thinking about the history of western thought, including the critique of those canonical works, was an enormous opportunity. If you’re going to be intellectually engaged with the world you need to hold those things in balance.”

Kate Cayley
Kate Cayley

Writer, Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), Contemporary Studies and Theatre, '01


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