Arts (BA)

Dalhousie’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) offers the most academic choices of any such faculty in Atlantic Canada, combining the opportunities of a big research-intensive university with the friendly atmosphere of a smaller college.

With more than 35 flexible programs in humanities, social science, languages, and performing arts, as well as hundreds of courses, the breadth of our offerings and the connections that you can make between them are unparalleled in our region.

Program-specific admission requirements

• Minimum overall average: 70%

• Academic English 12

• Four additional academic subjects

If you're applying to the Fountain School of Performing Arts as a Theatre major, please fill out the supplemental application form.

We give you skills you can take anywhere: the power to think critically about the world, to express yourself creatively and effectively, and to collaborate well with others. Many of our graduates go straight into careers in such areas as the creative industries, education, government, the military, and NGOs.

Some of our graduates go on to professional programs such as law, medicine, and public administration; others go on to graduate degrees including PhDs and MAs.