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Full	Carleton Bachelor of Arts (BA) – Non-Honours (3 years) OUAC CA ☆ Add to planRemove	McMaster Humanities I OUAC MH ☆ Add to planRemove	York Concurrent Education: Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (BEd) OUAC YFK ☆ Add to planRemove	Queen's Arts OUAC QA ☆ Add to planRemove
Your average, their wayrequired courses forced in
Published rangetheir exact wording	75%	80–83%“Anticipated admission average of low-80s”	77–87%“High 70s to mid-80s”	83–87%“Mid-80s”
Required coursesforced into your top 6 — options are the row below	ENG4USBI4USCH4U	ENG4U	No course codes parsed — see prerequisites	ENG4U
Choose one ofany of these satisfies it	—	—	—	—
Prerequisitesas published	Programs: African Studies, Anthropology, Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Art History, Biology ,* Childhood and Youth Studies, English, Environmental and Climate Change Studies, European and Russian Studies, Film Studies, French, Geography, Geomatics, Greek and Roman Studies, History, History and Theory of Architecture, Human Rights and Social Justice, Indigenous Studies, Law, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies. You can also apply to the BA Undeclared for first year, or our new 15-credit online program in General Studies. +4 more on the program page	English 4U *Completion of Biology 4U is recommended for students who are interested in pursuing the Cognitive Science of Language program in Level II.	In this concurrent program, graduates receive a Bachelor of Education as well as a Bachelor's degree in their chosen subject of major interest. Students must apply by selecting both the York Faculty that they are applying to and +4 more on the program page	ENG4U 5 additional 4U/M courses
More than marks?supplementary application	Marks only	Marks only	Yes An online Faculty of Education Supplementary Information Form and supplemental fee are also required. Refer to the Faculty of Education website . Usually closes before January 15	Marks only
Co-op	No	No	No	Available
Degree	—	—	—	—
First-year intakewhere published	—	480	—	974
What you study	Aboriginal StudiesAfrican StudiesAnthropologyClassical Studies	African StudiesAncient Middle Eastern LanguagesClassical StudiesComparative Literary Studies	African StudiesAncient Middle Eastern LanguagesAnthropologyAsian Studies	Aboriginal StudiesClassical Greek StudiesClassical StudiesComparative Literary Studies
What it is	A three-year Bachelor of Arts lets you choose from humanities and social science subjects like history, English, anthropology, geography, and environmental studies. Unlike an honours degree, you complete fewer credits overall and have more flexibility to explore different fields or combine subjects without specializing deeply in one. This suits students who want a broad liberal arts education or who are still deciding what to focus on.	Humanities I is your first year of study in the liberal arts, where you explore human culture, language, history, and society through subjects like English, history, drama, and linguistics. You take a range of courses across these fields to discover what interests you before specializing in a particular discipline in later years. This suits students who are curious about how people think, communicate, and organize themselves, but aren't yet certain which humanities subject to focus on.	You study a subject like economics, anthropology, or Chinese alongside teacher training, so you earn both a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor's degree in your chosen field. Unlike a regular education degree, this concurrent program embeds your subject expertise from day one rather than adding it separately. It suits people who know they want to teach and have a clear subject they're passionate about.	Queen's Arts offers a broad, self-directed undergraduate degree spanning humanities, social sciences, and languages. You choose your own combination of subjects — from English and economics to classical studies and environmental issues — rather than following a set curriculum. The co-op option lets you alternate study terms with paid work placements in your field of interest, which suits students who want real-world experience alongside their degree and flexibility in how they structure their time.
The door tomajors you reach through it	Applied to directly	communicationsenglishhistorylanguagesphilosophy	education	communicationscriminologyenglishgeographyhistorylanguagesphilosophypolitical science
Entrance awardsat this campus, by average	16 published, 9 with no applicationfrom 75%See them	5 published, 3 with no applicationfrom 75%See them	29 published, 4 with no applicationfrom 75%See them	None published by average
Source	Carleton University on OUInfo	McMaster University on OUInfo	York University on OUInfo	Queen's University on OUInfo

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