Top 9 reasons to study SoSA at Dal:

1. Dynamism: Our program provides students with a rigorous, critical approach to studying the world we live in.
   
2. Two disciplines in one: Sociology and Social Anthropology offers two distinct intellectual and methodological ways to look at people and societies.
3. Want social change? We have a strong commitment to scholarship engaged in issues of social justice, inequality and power relations in society.
4. Go local or go global: Our faculty immerse you in world cultures through their research in Canada, the Middle East, South America and Asia.
   
5. Get personal: Students find SoSA gives them a critical context for their personal experiences and challenges the common beliefs we hold about the world.
   
6. Improve your people skills: Our courses teach you how to observe, interview and write while being sensitive to bias and cultural difference.
7. We teach freedom: Our Major and Honours seminars are self-directed and help focus your research interests.
   
8. Big picture: SoSA examines societies in an interdisciplinary way, combining politics, economics, statistics, history and philosophy.
9. Travels well: Our graduates practice social science in all sorts of industries: non-profits, government, media, health, politics and law to name a few.