Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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Lecture & Seminar Series

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Gain a new perspective and learn new insights by attending one of our many lecture, seminar or speaker series events.

Experiential Learning stories

Learn about some of our students' academic experiences that went beyond the classroom

Video - FASS Faculty Panel

Fail Forward: Falling Short and Climbing Up

Several FASS faculty members and a Dal Tigers coach share stories about the failures and experiences that led to their own successes

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FASS-EX - The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Experiential Learning

Take a look through the opportunities that will allow you to build on what you're learning in the classroom.

Explore what it means to be human with the Arts and Social Sciences

Dalhousie's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) offers a world of choices. We are the oldest and one of the largest faculties on campus with many majors, minors. certificates and more to choose from. There are so many ways to customize your degree and stand out in the job market!

First-Year Interest Groups

Starting your first year in Arts and Social Sciences? Are you undeclared but love things like pop culture, history, international politics, literature or the performing arts? Register for a FIG (First-Year Interest Group) and you'll really get to delve into what interests you.

DALCAP: The Coordinated Arts Program

This coordinated, structured set of courses will give you the foundation for engaging with the challenges facing our world, even as it provides an excellent entry point for most majors in the arts and social sciences.

Indigenous Studies (Minor)

Learning from indigenous scholars, you'll benefit from the perspectives and insights of instructors who have both lived and studied the topics under discussion. You will leave the program with a deeper understanding of indigenous issues in political, social and economic contexts. These issues are of increasing importance as Canada moves forward with reconciliation with Indigenous people and you'll be prepared to engage in respectful and knowledgeable ways.

Black African and Diaspora Studies (Minor)

Discover the often ignored African-Canadian society and culture from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Through core courses and other materials, you will discover, analyze and celebrate the history, culture and sociology of Black people in Canada and of the global African diaspora.

Certificate in Computing in Arts & Social Sciences

Designed for students in the arts, social sciences, and humanities, this certificate program is intended to develop participants’ digital literacy. Students will develop and apply technical computing skills and also explore key social and intellectual issues in an increasingly digital world.

Certificate in Intercultural Communication

Curious about other cultures and different ways of thinking and being in the world? The Certificate in Intercultural Communication recognizes academic learning, volunteer and work experience, and language skills specifically related to the effective use of communication in diverse cultural contexts.

Let your degree take you around the world

Learn more about our travel, study abroad, and exchange opportunities

FASS alumni - Where are they now?

Our alumni are making huge impacts in all corners of the globe. Learn about where their FASS degrees have taken some of them!

About FASS

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students

Dalhousie's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers a world of choices: thousands of courses, two hundred professors, thirty-five academic programs. Learn more about the Faculty.

Research & Researchers

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences student researching

How can the study of humanities and social sciences inform policy, improve health and restore the environment? Find out how FASS research and researchers are changing the world.

FASS in Dal News

Affordable housing: It's not just a big city problem anymore
In Atlantic Canada, leaders must avoid the mistakes made in the country’s largest cities where people are being pushed out due to high housing prices, write researchers Howard Ramos and Emma Kay.
Paving the way for young women in politics
With their new book, two Dal students are doing more than shining a light on women in Nova Scotia politics. Thanks to a fundraising campaign, they're also aiming to help their fellow students as well.
The Contenders: Dal's annual battle of brains and brevity set to begin
From video game addiction to vampire fears, 3 Minute Thesis gives the Halifax community a way to discover groundbreaking research from Dal graduate students — before it changes the world. Get to know just some of this year's contestants.
From a friendship to a legacy
When The Honourable Don Oliver (LLB ‘64), retired Senator, met businessman Wade Dawe at a conference more than a decade ago, it was the start of a great friendship — and of a journey that would lead to a donation for a new, state-of-the-art practice space in Dal's Arts Centre expansion.

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News from FASS

FASS essay competition winners announced
Winners of the Irving ane Jeanne Glovin Award, Mushkat Memorial Essay Prize, and Halifax Overseas Club Essay prize announced
Bob Huish, of the department of International Development Studies, talks to the Halifax Examiner about how stigma around the Covid‑19 virus might hurt vulnerable populations
“If you think about it historically, that’s often how viruses and diseases that become global are often labelled. They’re given this national or racial underlying tension to it and then it goes from there.”
Howard Ramos, of the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, talks to the Halifax Examiner about people's actions and reactions during a crisis
Howard Ramos shares some interesting insights on people's actions and reactions during a crisis, with regards to the Covid-19 pandemic
BA alumna Sarah Dobson featured in The Coast's Career Minded edition
A degree in the arts has never been more valuable than right now

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