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Full	Lakehead Sociology (Thunder Bay) OUAC AAP ☆ Add to planRemove	Algoma Sociology (BA 4 year) OUAC JBH ☆ Add to planRemove	BU Brock Sociology OUAC BSO ☆ Add to planRemove	Ontario Tech Society, Technology and Human Values OUAC DDG ☆ Add to planRemove
Your average, their wayrequired courses forced in
Published rangetheir exact wording	70%	65%“65%+”	73–77%“Mid 70s”	70–73%“Low 70s”
Required coursesforced into your top 6	ENG4U	ENG4U	ENG4U	ENG4U
Prerequisitesas published	ENG4U Alternative Offers If you do not meet the admission requirements for your program of choice but do meet Lakehead University's general admission requirements, you will automatically be considered for an alternate program.	ENG4U 5 other 4U/M courses 65% combined average in top six 4U/M courses	ENG4U Alternative Offers You will receive an offer of admission to only 1 program. Your highest listed choice is considered first when you indicate more than 1 Brock program on your application. If you are not eligible for your first choice, your subsequent choices will be considered in your indicated order of preference. In most cases: If you apply to only 1 Brock program but do not qualify, you will be considered for an alternative or related program. If you apply but are not admitted to a co-op program you will automatically be considered for the regular, non-co-op program.	Current Ontario secondary school students must complete the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) with six 4U or 4M courses, including English (ENG4U).
More than marks?supplementary application	Marks only	Marks only	Marks only	Marks only
Co-op	No	Available	No	No
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First-year intakewhere published	—	—	—	—
What you study	Complementary Medicines and TherapiesHeritage StudiesSocial PolicySociology	Sociology	—	Others in TechnologySocial PolicySociology
What it is	You study how society works: how people interact, form groups, and create institutions like families, workplaces, and governments. At Lakehead, you can focus on specific areas like social policy, heritage studies, or complementary medicines alongside core sociology. This suits people curious about why societies function the way they do and interested in understanding social problems and change.	A sociology degree means studying how people form groups, institutions, and societies — why they act the way they do together, what shapes their beliefs and behaviours, and how power and inequality work in the real world. This four-year program includes a co-op work term, giving you paid experience in a workplace related to social research, policy, or community work. It suits people curious about how society works who want both classroom theory and hands-on practice in fields like research, social services, or communications.	Sociology is the study of how people live together in groups, families, communities, and societies. You'll examine social patterns, inequality, culture, and institutions to understand why people behave the way they do and how social structures shape our lives. This program suits people curious about society and human behaviour who want to think critically about how the world works.	This program combines study of how technology shapes society with analysis of social issues and human values. Unlike a pure technology program, you'll focus on the human and ethical sides of tech — how it affects people, policy, and communities — rather than building or coding technology itself. It suits people curious about technology's role in the world who prefer thinking through social and policy questions over hands-on technical work.
The door tomajors you reach through it	sociology	sociology	sociology	Applied to directly
Entrance awardsat this campus, by average	6 published, 5 with no applicationfrom 80%See them	7 published, 7 with no applicationfrom 80%See them	4 published, 1 with no applicationfrom 80%See them	3 published, 3 with no applicationfrom 85%See them
Source	Lakehead University on OUInfo	Algoma University on OUInfo	Brock University on OUInfo	Ontario Tech University on OUInfo

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