Humanities 101 is heard at the Vancouver Art Gallery
A Faculty of Arts Community Education Program is featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Meet Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young: History course with literary twist piques student interest
“Every lecture is a world-class seminar.” “The best course I’ve ever taken.” These are just a few of the accolades Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young has received from students for his course, CENS 303A, “German Representations of the Holocaust”.
Check out UBC’s Writing Centre!
By Erin Catherall So your professor tells your class he wants MLA formatting for your paper, and all that is running through your head is “huh? MLA? Citation formatting? What?” Well it is time for you to check-out UBC’s Writing Centre. This amazing resource will help you build the necessary skills to become a stronger […]
Arts Insights: CiTR 101.9 FM interview with Dean Gage Averill
By Erin Catherall Dean of the Faculty of Arts at UBC, world- renowned Haitian scholar, and now, recent Grammy nominee— there is not much that Dean Gage Averill cannot seem to do! Listen to Gage Averill speak on Prof Talk (CITR 101.9FM) and hear his thoughts on his new role at UBC , his experiences […]
Meet Margaret Coe: Teaching with a love of English literature
By Arash Ehteshami Margaret Coe graduated with a BA in English Literature. As a transfer student from University of Victoria (UVic), Margaret came to UBC having taken a sampling of university courses in a variety of disciplines. At UVic, she took courses ranging between invertebrate zoology, political science, computer science and English literature. After graduating […]
Meet your match in ASTU 150 or CAP
By Mary Leong Get acquainted with campus and community during class, with the Arts Peer Mentors program Arts Peer Mentors redefine the three Rs to: resource, role model, and representative. Arts Peer Mentors, an academic-based peer program for students enrolled in ASTU 150 and Co-ordinated Arts Program (CAP), helps students explore the academic opportunities at […]
Judy Brown honoured with Canada’s top teaching award
By Mary Leong A passion for teaching and a commitment to her students earned Professor Judy Brown, who teaches in the Dept. of English, Canada’s top teaching award. Teaching always felt like the right thing to do, says Brown, recently recognized with a 3M National Teaching Fellowship Brown, who started at UBC as a teaching […]
Meet BFA ’07 grad Shireen Cotterall: Inspired by surroundings
Shireen intends to continue to inspire and guide young people in tandem with her own artistic endeavors. Shireen studied visual arts under the guidance of Barbara Zeigler and Philip McCrum, at UBC and Otis Tamasuskas at Queens University. She graduated in 2007 with a BFA in Visual Arts and a BA Minor in Spanish. Shireen […]
Meet Professor Catherine Rawn: Training your brain
By UBC Public Affairs Teaching the fundamentals of academic success Procrastination. Anxiety. Distractions. Bad habits. They are the four horsemen of academic apocalypse, and Jeremy Butt learned about them all too well in his freshman year. Grades-wise, the UBC Arts student survived his first year at university with mostly B’s and C’s. But he knew […]
GRSJ Professor Veronica Strong-Boag wins prestigious SSHRC Award and Fellowship
By Loren Plottel UBC Professor Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag has been awarded the Jules and Gabrielle Leger Research Fellowship from SSHRC for her study of an exceptional Canadian “power couple.” “An Edifying Couple: Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Liberal Aristocrats, Reformers, and Viceregal Activists in an Imperial World (1877-1939)” is the title of the project that won […]