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Logistics and Supply Chain Foundations

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Build your expertise in logistics and supply chain management with a curriculum designed to prepare you for leadership roles in this essential industry. Learn to address complex logistical challenges and drive efficiency across supply chain networks. 

Interdisciplinary Aging Studies M.A.

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Immerse yourself in a transformative two-year journey where you’ll extend your learning beyond the classroom. This program offers the unique opportunity to foster meaningful relationships with older adults and contribute to community organizations that directly support them. Coupled with rigorous academic and research training, this hands-on experience will equip you with the practical skills needed for a successful career in aging-related fields.

Anthropology

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Join one of the most highly-regarded Anthropology programs in Canada to explore the evolution of our species form our beginnings to today’s global societies. 

Through this hands-on and diverse program, you can choose to study from all primary fields of anthropology--archaeological, biological, cultural, and linguistic—learning first-hand from renowned experts and researchers. 

Archaeology

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Join one of the largest and most esteemed Archaeology programs in Canada to illuminate our human past and develop transferable skills that can be used in many job sectors.

As a Trent Archaeology student, you’ll get hands-on experience, learning field methods and lab techniques used to examine physical evidence, and exploring theories and approaches used by experts to understand ancient cultures and past civilizations.

Global Development Studies

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Global Development Studies (GDST) at Trent equips students with the tools to understand and analyze societal transformation. 

With a curriculum built from 10 academic departments, GDST explores wide-ranging themes, such as poverty, conflict, the environment, and gender. Learn from anthropologists, political scientists, economists, and other experts in courses that integrate theory and practical learning and emphasize critical thinking and social justice. 

Sociology

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In Sociology at Trent, you will find yourself questioning and critically exploring the relationships between individuals, groups, institutions, and societies, and the organization, processes, and consequences of social life with a focus on topics such as class, gender, race, work, health, culture, and migration.

Learn and work with a multidisciplinary mix of experts in the fields of aging, criminal justice, healthcare, popular culture, and sexuality in supportive research environments.

Political Studies

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Trent’s versatile Political Studies program introduces students to a variety of political topics, while encouraging you to dive deeper into one of three concentrations in world politics, Canadian politics, or political theory.

Joint Majors

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Graduate with a unique set of expertise through Trent’s joint major degree pathway.

Joint major students at Trent describe the experience as the best of both worlds as you are able to take courses across the arts, sciences, and our professional programs. 

Want to see more representation in our governments? Pair a Political Studies degree with Gender & Social Justice. 

Want to immerse yourself in today’s technology? Couple Media Studies with Computer Systems.

Human Rights & Global Justice

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Circumpolar Studies (Diploma - online only)

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The Trent School of the Environment offers a unique online diploma for students who wish to undertake a single academic year of study (September to April) focused upon the landscape, peoples, and contemporary issues of concern in the Circumpolar world.

Students study the Circumpolar region from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Introductory courses begin with the examination of the geography, history, and biophysical and physical systems of the Sub-Arctic and Arctic regions.

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