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.
Trent’s Cultural Studies graduate programs emphasize research and research creation. Students immerse themselves in a thriving local arts community as they pursue discussions surrounding culture and technology, environmental communication, gender and the body, science as knowledge, discourse, and narrative, social and political theory, and media theory.
Sustainability is in Trent’s DNA. As the leading institution for sustainability studies in Canada, Trent provides graduate students with advanced opportunities to drive your career forward.
The M.A. in Sustainability Studies features a customized individual study plan for each student, consisting of a balance of core and elective courses. Create your own Master’s degree with either a strong academic focus (thesis), or a more applied approach (major research paper), or choose our co-op path where you will secure hands-on work experience with a paid co-op placement.
Become a professional researcher and analyst under the supervision of groundbreaking historians and authors in a diverse range of topics, including political history and foreign relations, gender history, environmental history, the history of sports, food history, the history of childhood, war and memory, dictatorship, and the history of medicine. Choose between a major research paper or a thesis, and structure your studies over one year or two.
What does it mean to go public? To publish? More than reading texts, students in Trent’s Public Texts M.A. program develop new ways of examining how texts are produced and circulated. Here you can explore the ongoing relationship between texts and the public.
Students also discover the history of texts, study the future of published works and discuss relevant issues that are key to modern literary research. Collaboration with faculty, visiting scholars and experts is front and centre in this innovative program that combines theory and practice.
Fuel your curiousity and passion as you prepare for professional and academic career paths. In this program, students lead research projects that span the humanities, social sciences and other interdisciplinary fields, as they produce either a major research paper or thesis. This Master’s degree prepares you for a vibrant future in academia, as well as careers in education, social services or not-for-profit and advocacy sectors.
This interdisciplinary thesis-based option offers fresh perspectives for students pursuing an M.A. or M.Sc., bringing together scholars from across economics, computer science, math, and psychology to exchange ideas and share knowledge.
Trent’s esteemed research-based Anthropology master’s programs emphasize critical thinking and experiential learning, along with developing strengths in theory and research design.
Globally-recognized researchers closely mentor students on designing a thesis research project, including collecting, analyzing, and interpreting cultural and biological data. Our faculty are uniquely equipped to offer intensive, hands-on training in research methods, based in our specialized laboratory facilities.