Duration
4 years
Starting Date
January
Tuition Fee
CAD 89,464 per full
Delivery
Blended
Location
Victoria, Canada
About the program
Throughout the Social Sciences course from the Royal Roads University you’ll advance your applied research and leadership skills to tackle challenging issues and transform organizations.
This program is accessible if you’re a mid-career professional. You’ll study through a combination of online courses and two short residencies on campus with a group of other working professionals.
In addition to your coursework, you’ll complete candidacy exams and a traditional or portfolio dissertation.
This program is ideal if you’re a policy analyst, senior administrator, or executive from the public, private or non-profit sector.
Students and graduates include mid- to senior-level leaders from areas such as natural resource management, health care, global security, professional communication, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, conflict management, values-based leadership, environmental sustainability, and learning and technology.
Career
Once you have completed this program, you’ll have developed skills in the following areas:
- applied research
- interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary analysis
- critical thinking
- scholar-practitioner orientation
- systems thinking
The DSocSci degree can prepare you for your chosen profession or career across a variety of public, private and not-for profit areas (for example, health, education, government and policy, leadership, Indigenous peoples, or communities).
Courses
- Social Science Theory and the Globalized World
- Research Paradigms in Applied Social Sciences
- Directed Study
- Applied Qualitative Social Scientific Methods
- Applied Quantitative Social Scientific Methods
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