瑞尔森大学国际学院

Arts is a first-year studies option that lets you explore social science and humanities program areas before applying to your program of choice for your second year.

All courses that you successfully complete in the Arts program will be credited to the selected Ryerson University major.

Duration: 3 terms

Intakes: January; May and September

Majors:

Environment and Urban Sustainability:

The program in Environment and Urban Sustainability is designed for students interested in environmental and conservation issues. You will learn to evaluate effects of development on urban settlements and to assess and facilitate conservation and the development of sustainable responses.

• The program integrates the social sciences, natural sciences, and applied disciplines as related to environmental and sustainability issues. You can focus your studies on environment design, environmental management, environmental policy, community studies, or natural science.

Philosophy:

Philosophy explores some of the most fundamental and perennial questions such as:
How should we act? What is truth? What is beauty? What can we know? Are we free? In this program, students examine attempts to answer these and other basic questions by considering the contributions of some of history’s most inventive and critical minds.

• You will develop a well-rounded understanding of philosophy’s central debates and will examine the practical applications of philosophical theories and methods to contemporary political and social issues.

Politics and Governance:

Politics and Governance has as its major focus a critical understanding of how important decisions are made – at the international, national, provincial, and local levels — by both governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). You will learn to question the assumptions behind both administrative practice and policies that emerge from a variety of sources, and to evaluate them on a range of criteria, including empirical, theoretical and ethical bases.

• Courses explore the actors and institutions of Canadian government, the emerging institutions and practices of global governance, controversial policy topics, western political thought, and comparative politics.

Psychology:

Why do we think, feel and behave the way we do?  It’s the primary question of psychology, a fascinating scientific discipline that generates deep insights into the workings of our brains, bodies, and inner selves.  In Ryerson’s Psychology program, students learn about: the evolution of psychology as a thriving academic discipline; cutting-edge research findings on a wide variety of current issues; and how research is conducted.

• Your studies will delve into psychological theories and research methods with courses in neuroscience, lifespan development, memory and decision making, psychological disorders and their treatment, cultural diversity, gender, sexuality, psychology and law, health, and more.

Sociology:

Sociologists explore the social world: why things stay the same and how we achieve social change. Ryerson’s Sociology program ensures you develop skills that are essential to career success: critical thinking, media literacy, research design and analysis, and effective communication.

• Courses allow you to study a range of areas: diversity, popular media, globalization, immigration and citizenship, the entertainment industry, social networks, families and cultural beliefs, the lives of children and youth, and work and employment.