This is the place where creative minds and critical thinkers unite. Collaborate with peers and professors as you explore the diversity of the human experience and shine new light on age-old questions.
Whether you’re in Accounting and Financial Management, Global Business and Digital Arts, or one of 27 other honours majors, you’ll benefit from the variety of academic departments you’ll interact with and the different perspectives they offer.
With a Bachelor of Arts degree, you’ll graduate with the expertise employers need and the hands-on experience they want, thanks to co-op terms, career-focused minors, study abroad opportunities, and experiential education certificates.
Majors and programs
- Accounting and Financial Management
- Anthropology
- Classical Studies (or Classics)
- Communication Studies (or Communication Arts and Design Practice)
- Computing and Financial Management
- Economics
- English (choose Literature; Literature and Rhetoric; or Rhetoric, Media, and Professional Communication)
- Fine Arts (choose Studio Practice or Visual Culture)
- French
- Gender and Social Justice
- German
- Global Business and Digital Arts
- History
- Honours Arts
- Honours Arts and Business
- Legal Studies
- Liberal Studies
- Medieval Studies
Related: How to choose a program or major in the Faculty of Arts.
Co-op = paid work experience
Combine co-op and a Bachelor of Arts degree to discover the career for you! See who hires Arts co-op students and the types of careers you can explore before graduating with your Waterloo degree.
Check out the Faculty of Arts Instagram account to learn about life as an Arts student.
