do you k now: Our largest lecture hall is comparatively small, with seating for 230, and is
typically reserved for first-year classes. Most classes are much smaller with an average class size of 26.
Q Q ECONOMICS
Bachelor of Arts (three-year)
Offered by the Faculty of Arts and Science The study of economics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions. What determines the prices of the products we buy? Why do some people live below the poverty line while others experience extreme wealth? How can the cost of living be so vastly different between countries? Economics is concerned with the social science behind these questions and a mass of other choice theories. Our Economics program surveys the philosophical viewpoint of significant economic theorists and applies these concepts to investigations of business, environmental, financial, health, political and social policies that ultimately have economic consequences to the individual, the country, and the world. Career and Academic Options
Graduate Studies Professional School (Education, Law, MBA) • Careers in market analysis, commercial and investment banking, policy advising, accounting, taxation, e-commerce, investment counselling, insurance, credit analysis, economic policy planning Visit www.nipissingu.ca/economics • •
Q Q ENGLISH STUDIES
Bachelor of Arts
Offered by the Faculty of Arts and Science
Career and Academic Options
Graduate Studies Professional School (Education, Law, Library Science, MBA) • Careers in journalism, public service, public relations, marketing, professional writing, and creative writing Visit www.nipissingu.ca/english • •
Dr. Sal Renshaw, professor in the Gender Equality and Social Justice Department, and recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, was the course instructor in the inaugural international placement course, GEND 3056 Sanctuary and Salvation: Saving Animals in a Global World. Facilitated in Hong Kong, the course included a placement with Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Gardens as well as the Hong Kong SPCA. Students experienced hands-on wildlife conservation efforts in a non-Western context and were exposed to indigenous animal conservation projects in addition to the international trafficking of exotic species.
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English Studies develops communication skills (oral and written), critical thinking and organizational abilities. It combines your passion for reading with analyzing and writing texts of all kinds – poems, stories, plays, novels and essays to websites, videos and movies. Over the course of your degree, you will study classics of our literary tradition, drawing especially on British, Canadian and American canons, and will include new areas such as Postcolonial Literature, Native Literature and Digital Culture. Our new first-year “Topics in Literature” courses invite students to engage in literary study through a particular theme or topic, such as Monsters and Madness, Rogues and Rebels, Sports, Friendship and the Family. Discussion and dialogue is core to the program, culminating in intensive Honours Seminars in Fourth Year, where small groups of students can explore topics such as Cannibalism, the Victorian Fantastic, Harry Potter and Graphic Novels.
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