Dual Degree - Bachelor of Arts - Gender Equality and Social Justice & Bachelor of Commerce (PAB)

Students may register in a Bachelor of Commerce with a Bachelor of Arts in Gender Equality and Social Justice degree simultaneously.

The Bachelor of Commerce will prepare students for a career and life in general. It gives a wholesome approach to learning that gives students more than a degree. Along with core business knowledge, they will develop professional and social skills. The program’s combination of theoretical background, practical skills, real experience, and techniques to hone independent thinking and problem solving skills will give graduates an advantage and a better chance of success in a competitive market.

This program is designed for students who want to make the world a more just and better place, are passionate about issues like human rights violations, sexism, racism, homophobia, and poverty, and want to understand these issues better?

Gender Equality and Social Justice is an interdisciplinary program with courses in the areas of Culture and Criticism, Power and Inequality, and Human Rights and Social Justice. We ask how race, class, colonialism, ability, sex, and gender intersect in everyday acts of power, oppression, activism, and resistance.

This program will provide students with highly transferrable skills in critical thinking, research, writing, argumentation, analysis, and communication.

As one of few programs of its kind in Canada, the Gender Equality and Social Justice program will teach students to think critically about who has the power in the world, and why, as well as how to resist, shape, and change power for social justice. This program is highly interdisciplinary with close links to Social Welfare and Social Development, Religions and Cultures, Political Science, and Philosophy, and is designed for those with interests in critical studies of popular culture; the politics of resisting inequality through the law; globalization and human rights; violent conflict and international justice; transnational organizing for social justice; histories of colonization; feminist philosophies; postmodernism; theories of justice; and the intersections of race, class, ability, sex and gender.

Students of this department will receive a broad liberal education in Humanities and Social Sciences. Through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, students will examine the social and cultural constructions of gender, sexuality, race and class, and how these social categories relate to knowledge, experience, relationships and the quality of Nipissing University lives.