Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies

Asian Canadian and Asian Migration (ACAM) Studies is a multidisciplinary program at UBC that explores the history, culture, and contemporary development of Asian communities in Canada, and global Asian migrations. As a new Asian-Canadian community initiative at UBC, ACAM emphasizes mentoring and training for students to support the co-creation of knowledge with Asian-Canadian community-based organizations.

African Studies Minor

The African Studies Minor program at UBC was initiated in 2005 in response to students’ aspiration to connect UBC more closely with the African continent. It is designed to provide students with an excellent opportunity to learn more about the African continent’s history, and the fascinating cultural and linguistic diversity of more than one billion people who live in Africa’s 54 sovereign nations.

Development and Alumni Engagement

The Faculty of Arts blends the creative and performing arts, social sciences, and humanities. The synergies from fifteen departments, six outstanding performing arts venues, five professional schools, a world-renowned museum and a leading art gallery inspires students to become critical thinkers and inspiring leaders.
The Faculty of Arts explores ways to create positive change in the world around us and encourages the involvement of alumni, donors and community members to collaborate and build the future.

Arts Undergraduate Society

The Arts Undergraduate Society is a student-elected body that provides programming, services, and events for UBC Arts students. Through diversity, inclusivity and a physical space in Buchanan, the AUS aims to promote community and enhance the undergraduate experience within the Faculty of Arts.

Arts Instructional Support & Information Technology (ISIT)

Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology (ISIT) is a learning, teaching, and technology support unit for the Faculty of Arts. The unit offers an array of resources and services to support faculty members with their instruction in and out of the classroom. The framework of collaborate, innovate, and advocate underpins all Arts ISIT activities and services.

Arts Finance Group

The Faculty of Arts Finance Group was established and became operational in Fall of 2015. With funding and assistance from the University Finance Support Program, the team—which consists of eight members with extensive financial expertise and experience—supports the Faculty of Arts with financial management services including: reporting, budget planning, and payment processing services.

Arts Communications

Arts Communications promotes Arts knowledge and achievements and fosters an engaged and inspired community through creative and strategic media, design, and storytelling. The team acts as a bridge between the Dean of Arts office and its associated units and provides communications expertise and brand leadership across the faculty.

Arts Academic Advising

Arts Academic Advising works with faculty, academic programs, and campus partners to guide Arts students as they create their academic pathway — with reflection, intention, and enriched learning experiences — from the Faculty’s diverse offerings.

Pacific Affairs

Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on important current political, economic, and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. The journal is committed to providing high quality research on Asia and the Pacific that takes readers beyond the headlines and across multiple disciplines.

Canadian Literature

Canadian Literature is an academic quarterly that publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles in French or English related to the field of Canadian literature, broadly defined. They also publish book reviews of critical and creative works, poems, short notes, writings of importance that have been rediscovered in the archives, interviews with writers, and articles by writers about their craft.