Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences FIGs

You’re coming to Dal to learn more about international relations and Canada’s place in the world. You might be considering a career in international human rights work, development projects, or politics. You’re curious about the political arrangements that structure our world and how to influence them.

You’re coming to Dal to study literature, drama, and the performing arts. You might be considering a career as an artist or as a teacher of the arts. You enjoy exploring how creative works help us understand ourselves and our world.

You are coming to Dal to learn more about how the world came to be as it is and about the stories we tell to make sense of the connections between past and present. You’re planning to take courses in History or Classics.  You may not have a clear sense of your future career goals just yet – maybe law? maybe writing or teaching? – but you know you like learning about the past. 

You want an opportunity to meet other first year students, but none of the headings or course combinations above seem quite right for you. 

You are coming to Dal to learn more about human behaviour. You may be interested in the underlying triggers of mental illness, or be curious about how children learn to speak or to develop social skills. Or maybe you’re interested in how groups of humans behave – how crowds form and act as they do, why some societies tend to competition while others seem to promote cooperation, etc.  

You are coming to Dal to learn about how to engage ethically and responsibly with our natural environment and to acquire the tools you need to effect positive change in the ways we live in our world.  Concerned about climate change, you may have a particular interest in water, energy or food security and want to work with other problem-solvers committed to finding solutions to global challenges. 

You are coming to Dal to learn more about inequality and how to address it, with a particular interest in how law can be used both to promote social justice and to hinder it. You might be planning to take courses in gender and women’s studies, sociology and social anthropology, history and more, with an eye to later entering law school.