BA/BS in Sociology and Anthropology

Sociology and Anthropology is offered as a Bachelor of Arts field of study at Mount Saint Vincent University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a cross-cultural, comparative focus and particular strengths in gender, globalization, and the life course. The program is presented as challenging students to engage critically with complex, pressing social issues, and is designed to build transferable skills including analytical and critical thinking, improved writing and presentation, and research skills such as interviewing and data collection. The department highlights graduate outcomes across social service, social policy, and social research fields, with alumni working as lawyers, survey researchers, directors of social work, policy analysts, teachers, employment counsellors, journalists, gender equity officers, and business owners, and the page notes at least one graduate who went on to a faculty position at Queen's University. Students can take part in activities outside the classroom and access answers to frequently asked questions through the department's own resources. It suits students interested in analyzing social structures, culture, and human behaviour across societies, whether preparing for direct entry into social-service and research careers or for graduate study.