Undergraduate Programs

Bachelor of Arts (3-Year, 4-Year, or 4-Year Honours)

Majors & Minors

  • Aboriginal Art (minor only)
  • Anthropology
    • Archaeology Stream (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
  • Applied Disaster & Emergency Studies (4 year and 4 year Honours major and minor only)
  • Art and Visual Culture (minor only)
  • Business Administration
  • Canadian Studies (3 year major only)
  • Ceramics (minor only)
  • Creative Arts (major only)
  • Creative Writing (minor only)
  • Drama (minor only)
  • Drawing (minor only)
  • Economics
  • English
  • French (3 year and 4 year major and minor only)
  • Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Geography
    • Environmental Studies Concentration (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
    • Geomatics Concentration (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
    • Environmental Technologies: GIS (2+2)
  • History
  • Interdisciplinary Studies (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
  • Liberal Arts Distributed Major (major only)
  • Music Arts (3 year major, 3 or 4 year minor)
  • Native Languages (minor only)
  • Native Studies
    • Clinical Specialization (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
  • Painting (minor only)
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
    • Applied Stream
  • Religion
  • Rural and Community Studies
  • Sociology
    • Crime and Community Stream
    • Cultural Diversity & Equity Stream

BU also offers certificate programs in Justice Studies and Business Administration.  Students considering a certificate program must apply to a Bachelor of Arts degree program.

Bachelor of Business Administration (4 Year and 4 Year Honours)

  • Accounting Stream (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)

Specialize in Accounting (work towards CPA designation) and Management Studies. Explore courses in Human Resources, Finance, and Marketing.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (4-Year or 4-Year Honours)

  • Aboriginal Art
  • Ceramics
  • Digital Media and Design (2 + 2 )
  • Drawing
  • Painting 

Bachelor of Education

  • Bachelor of Education – After Degree (A.D.) (2-Year)
  • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (5-Year Integrated)
    • For those who want to teach Early Years or Middle Years only.
  • Concurrent Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education (A.D.) (5-Year Concurrent)

Bachelor of Physical Education Studies (3-Year)

  • Teaching Stream
  • Exercise Science and Fitness Stream
  • Recreation and Sport Management Stream

Bachelor of Nursing (1 + 3 Years)

  • A Pre-nursing year of 30 credit hours is required prior to admission into the highly competitive second year of the program
  • For more information contact Tracey Collyer at 204-571-8567 or collyert@brandonu.ca

Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing (1 + 3 Years)

  • Students must select either the Brandon University or the University of Winnipeg site
  • A Pre-Psychiatric Nursing year of 30 credit hours is required prior to admission into the highly competitive second year of the program
  • For more information contact Cathy Demas at 204-727-7403 or demas@brandonu.ca

Bachelor of Music

  • Bachelor of Music (4-Year Honours)
  • Bachelor of Music (4-Year Performance) – piano, organ, voice, strings, guitar, woodwinds, brass, percussion, percussion/drumset, and jazz.  Audition required after completion of common first year.
  • Bachelor of Music (Major in School Music)/Bachelor of Education (5-Year Concurrent) – elementary, choral or instrumental
  • Bachelor Music (4 Year Specialist in School Music)

*Entrance Audition required for all programs.

Bachelor of Science (3-Year, 4-Year, or 4-Year Honours)

Majors and Minors:

  • Applied Disaster & Emergency Studies  (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
  • Biology
    • Biomedical or Biological Science (major only)
    • Biology (minor only)
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Geography
    • Environmental Studies Concentration (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
    • Geomatics Concentration (4 year and 4 year Honours major only)
    • Land & Water Management  (2+2)
    • Environmental Technologies: GIS (2+2)
  • Geology
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Psychology
    • Psychology (Applied Stream)

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science (4-Year)

  • BSES students complete required courses in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Geography, English, Economics, and Environmental Ethics.  In addition, select courses from one of the following concentrations: Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies or Geology.
  • BSES- Land and Water (2+2)