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A Major in Social Sciences consisting of at least seven full-course equivalents is required. Departmental requirements as listed in the Social Sciences section of this Calendar must be fulfilled. Majors are available in Ancient and Medieval History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Geography, History, History and Philosophy of Science, International Indigenous Studies, International Relations, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Urban Studies.

1. Mathematics 249 or 251 or 281 or equivalent
2. Economics 201
3. Junior Social Sciences Option¹
4. Junior Humanities or Fine Arts Option
5. Junior English
6. Junior Non-Commerce Option*
7. Economics 203
8. Junior or Senior Non-Commerce Option¹*
9. Junior Science Option²
10. Business and Environment 291

1. Statistics 213³
2. Accounting 317
3. Computer Science 203
4. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
5. Business and Environment 395 or Humanities Option⁴
6. Statistics 217³
7. Senior Non-Commerce Option* or Accounting 323⁵
8. Senior Non-Commerce Option*
9. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field⁶
10. Communications Studies 361 or 363 or Humanities Option⁴

(Haskayne School of Business)⁷

1. Humanities Option⁴ (if not previously completed) or Business and Environment 395
2. Core Course 317⁸
3. Core Course 317⁸
4. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field 
5. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
6. Humanities Option⁴ (if not previously completed) or Communications Studies 361 or 363
7. Core Course 317⁸
8. Accounting 323 (if not previously completed) or Senior Non-Commerce Option*
9. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
10. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field

1. Core Course 317⁸
2. Commerce Concentration Course⁹
3. Commerce Concentration Course⁹
4. Management Studies 391
5. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
6. Core Course 317⁸
7. Commerce Concentration Course⁹
8. Commerce Concentration Course⁹
9. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
10. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field

1. Commerce Concentration Course⁹
2. Management Studies 493 and 495 (quarter courses)
3. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
4. Senior Commerce Option¹⁰
5. Course from Social Sciences Major field or Senior Non-Commerce Option* (if major is Psychology or Sociology)
6. Commerce Concentration Course⁹
7. Strategy and Global Management 591
8. Senior Course from Social Sciences Major field
9. Senior Commerce Non-Concentration Option¹¹
10. Senior Non-Commerce Option*

*Courses selected must be from the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences or Science only. (Students, other than Economic Majors, are permitted a maximum of one and one half full-course equivalents in Economics, including Economics 201 and 203.)

¹May be Social Sciences Major if major is not Economics.

²Excluding Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Mathematics. Students who wish to pursue a concentration in Petroleum Land Management are advised that a 200-level course in Geology is required as a prerequisite to the introductory Petroleum Land Management courses.

³Students may replace Statistics 213 and 217 with Mathematics 321 and 323. Students with a major in Psychology or Sociology must replace Statistics 213 and 217 with Psychology 312 or Sociology 311 and 315, respectively. Please note that credit will be given for one alternative.

⁴Humanities Option must be at the senior level if the Social Sciences major is Economics or Economics and Society.

⁵Students pursuing an Accounting concentration should take Accounting 323 in Year Two.

⁶Students with an Economics Major are advised that if they complete two full-course equivalents in their major during Year Two and then later wish to apply to the BComm program only for Year Three, one and one half full-course equivalents in Economics will become extra to their BComm degree.

⁷At the end of the second year, those students who are in the Faculty of Social Sciences shall select one of the following (subject to meeting academic requirements):

(a) Continue in the Major program in the Faculty of Social Sciences,

(b) Transfer to the Haskayne School of Business Bachelor of Commerce program,

(c) Pursue the combined Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor of Science) degree program.

⁸Select one of the following five "317" courses which are required in the BComm program. Priority should be given to registration in the "317" course(s) that is the prerequisite(s) for the intended concentration. Select from Finance 317, Marketing 317, Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics 317, Operations Management 317 and Management Information Systems 317.

⁹Commerce concentration information is available from the Undergraduate Office.

¹⁰Can be in or out of the student's concentration and must be chosen from a list designated by the Haskayne School of Business.

¹¹Must be outside the student's concentration and chosen from a list designated by the Haskayne School of Business. Contact the Haskayne Undergraduate Office for detailed information on concentrations.