Do you love learning about people in many different contexts? Do you have a wide variety of interests? Honours Arts gives you the flexibility to study broad interests and encourages you to explore subjects within the humanities, social sciences, fine and performing arts, and languages and cultures.

Honours Arts will help you develop your talents, such as analyzing issues, making persuasive arguments, writing well, and speaking with conviction.

Honours Arts is Waterloo's largest and most flexible first-year program. You can use first year to explore subjects you may not have had the opportunity to study in high school. If you wish, you can choose a major at the end of first year. Your major becomes the main focus of your studies.

Type of program

Entry program

System of study

Regular Only

Major(s)

Anthropology**; Classical Studies; Drama; Economics**; English**; Fine Arts; French; French Teaching Specialization; Geography and Environmental Management; German; History; Italian Studies*; Legal Studies; Liberal Studies*; Medieval Studies; Music; Peace and Conflict Studies; Philosophy; Political Science**; Psychology**; Religious Studies; Russian and East European Studies; Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies; Social Development Studies; Sociology**; Spanish; Speech Communication; Women's Studies

*General degree only
**Co-op available in these majors beginning in second year

For more information, please visit the Honours Arts website.