Bachelor of Arts - Honours (B.A. Honours)

The French & Canadian Studies degree invites you to challenge and question what it means to be Canadian. Learn alongside leading scholars, including a Governor General’s Literary Award winner, to deepen your understanding of Canada’s diverse cultures, histories, and languages while benefiting from a multicultural, bilingual education. Offering courses in both French and English, this program allows you to explore literature, politics, culture, and identity in Canada and develop advanced bilingual skills that set you apart in today’s global world.   

Responding to today’s rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) worldwide, Trent University Durham GTA’s new AI degree, featuring an optional one-year coop term, will prepare students to navigate the complex conceptual, technical, ethical, and institutional challenges posed by the expanding career opportunities in AI and its applications.

The unique combination of core economics and accounting courses in this degree will expand your understanding of the macroeconomy and financial markets while specializing your skillset in accounting, giving you the opportunity to customize your education to best suit your future career or academic pursuits.

In this program, students graduate as confident, well-informed economic experts with real-life skills and experience, and the accounting knowledge to enter the Chartered Professional Accounting Education Program (CPA PEP) directly after graduation.

Trent’s groundbreaking Indigenous Environmental Studies/Science (IESS) degree program, offered jointly with the School of the Environment, is the first program of its kind in North America. This degree focuses on the interaction and collaboration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Euro-centric Knowledge Systems and offers two study pathways.

Trent’s forward-thinking Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems (SAFS) program helps to meet the growing demand for experts to address the global need for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food production.

As a student in this program, you will develop a firm understanding of food systems: how food is produced, distributed, and consumed, locally and around the world.

In these ECO Canada-accredited environmental programs, you have the flexibility to design a degree that fits your unique interests.

A joint major in Forensics gives you a unique educational experience that equips you with an interdisciplinary knowledge base, a strong understanding of world issues, and well-honed critical thinking and analytical skills.

A joint degree in Forensics and Anthropology or Archaeology is an ideal path for students interested in identifying human remains or investigating grave sites. 

Interested in a career specializing in ballistics? A joint major in Physics and Forensics will help with reconstructing the trajectory of bullets at a crime scene. 

Explore the interactions between people and the physical environment through either the B.A. or B.Sc. pathways of this popular degree program. 

B.A. students focus their studies on how people encounter and shape their environments, while B.Sc. students examine the human and natural forces that shape the physical world, investigating topics in climate, hydrology, natural hazards, soils, and earth materials.

Communications at Trent Durham GTA is a program that emphasizes personal support and a strong sense of community, providing you with in-demand skills and a strong knowledge base. In this program you'll be empowered to identify your interests and goals as you experience opportunities to develop the skills and abilities required to pursue them.

Explore the interconnections between politics and economics in an era of intensifying globalization.

Trent’s International Political Economy program – one of the first of its kind in Canada – introduces students to global issues in wealth inequalities, civil unrest, trade agreements, and other challenges in geo-politics and global markets.