Two organizations receive PRE funding to partner with Arts faculty on community engagement projects
Two community-university projects being co-led by Faculty of Arts members have been funded by the W2023 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund.
Student success guide: Cultivate a career-inspired mentality
Beyond the classroom, a world of opportunity and experience awaits you! Career exploration can sound like a daunting task, but there are many possible routes you can take to ensure that your interests, skills, and passions will thrive.
How Arts and Engineering are bridging the gap to address real-world humanitarian challenges
In a pioneering move, the University of British Columbia has developed a unique course that pairs arts and engineering students together to develop solutions to humanitarian crises within B.C. and around the world. The popular and new course called ‘humanitarian engineering’ was led by Political Science professor Dr. Jenny Peterson and Chemical Engineering professor Dr. Gabriel Potvin.
Connecting language and land: How the ʔayʔaǰuθəm e-dictionary is for community and the next generation
Homalco, Klahoose, Comox, and Tla’amin Nations have been working on revitalizing their language, ʔayʔaǰuθəm, for over two decades. In the last seven years, an e-dictionary of First Peoples’ sounds and stories was brought to life through the efforts of community members, jehjeh Media, and UBC Linguistics alum Dr. Marianne Huijsmans.
Get to know alumna Jasmine Wilson: Musqueam Indian Band Archivist
Guided by knowledge gained from both her academic studies and her lived experiences as an Indigenous woman, History alumna Jasmine now works as the Assistant Archivist in the Archives Department of the Musqueam Indian Band.
Fish Tales: How storytelling is engaging a community and boosting a historic site
This community-university partnership between the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society and the UBC Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies aims to increase community-based storytelling, specifically through discussions of fish and seafood.
Nun ke’ Daahwéhsats: A community-university partnership advancing understanding of climate justice
A community-university partnership between West Moberly First Nations and the UBC Centre for Climate Justice is seeking to advance understanding of how climate science, policies and solutions will affect Indigenous self-determination, cultural values and rights.
Three community organizations receive PRE funding to work with Arts faculty
The 2023 Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund has funded three community-university projects that are being co-led by Faculty of Arts members. The Office of Community Engagement awards The Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund every year to support community-university collaborations. This fund helps bridge small resource gaps and enables community partners to build reciprocal relationships with […]
20 Global Seminars for Arts students to study abroad in summer 2024
Global Seminars are an amazing opportunity to take UBC courses led by a UBC instructor in global locations around the world.
3 opportunities to apply your learning to current global challenges
These Winter Term 2 programs and courses offered by ORICE provide students a chance to develop skills and experience related to their studies, and bridge the gap between academia, civil society and the world around us.