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Curious about how human rights, social justice, and globalization shape people’s everyday lives, in Canada and around the world? Society, Politics & Global Studies at Trent is perfect for you. 
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Programs in this area explore these issues and more through economic, cultural, political, historical, gender, and environmental lenses. You’ll develop a better understanding of the constructive and destructive effects on communities at home and internationally through hands-on learning, community-based research projects, and leadership development opportunities. 

Plus, you can even spend a full year studying in Africa or South America or explore different study abroad options, putting the global into Global Development Studies!.  

If you see social problems and want to be part of the solution, start with a Society, Politics & Global Studies degree, and change the world.

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Careers in Society, Politics & Global Studies

Through Society, Politics & Global Studies programs, you can prepare for career paths with an international flavour, including public affairs, government policy and diplomacy, humanitarian work, social justice advocacy, and more, as you help to share more equitable, just world.

Career Paths 

  • Prime Minister
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  • International Relations Specialist
  • Community Development
  • Government Relations Specialist
  • Journalist
  • International Development Officer
  • Humanitarian Assistance Worker
  • Disaster Relief Specialist
  • Human Rights Specialist
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These are the programs for people who aspire to understand and change the world. From analyzing the evolution of modern society through Anthropology and Archaeology, to assessing the world as it is and how it can be made better through Human Rights & Global Justice and Global Development Studies, graduates from these programs step out in the world ready to be difference makers.

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Archaeology
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Circumpolar Studies (Diploma - online only)
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Global Development Studies
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Human Rights & Global Justice
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Interdisciplinary Aging Studies M.A.
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Interdisciplinary Social Research Ph.D.
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International Political Economy
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Joint Majors
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