Teaching and Learning

Meet the new faces of UBC Arts 2020-2021

The Faculty of Arts is welcoming several new faculty members to its departments, schools and institutes during the 2020-2021 academic year. Get to know who they are, what they’re working on and why they are excited to be at UBC.

How Arts ISIT helped move the Faculty of Arts online

Six months have passed since the Faculty of Arts moved online in response to COVID-19. The Faculty’s dedicated learning, teaching and technology support team – Arts ISIT — has been doing everything they can to make the transition to online teaching and working as seamless as possible.

Students collaborate to explore mental health stigma among children in Northern India

Ria, Olivia, and Sahil brought their education to life by collaborating with one of India’s largest health networks to explore challenges related to depression and anxiety in school children affected by COVID-19.

Professor wearing headphones and working at her laptop

‘Be patient with yourself’: Arts profs on learning during COVID-19

We reached out to three Arts profs — from the Social Justice Institute, the Chinese Language Program, and Philosophy — for their advice on what you can do to prepare for this semester and how you can succeed in learning online.

Are you a fan of COVID-19 briefings interpreter Nigel Howard? You can take his ASL courses this fall

You’ve likely seen Nigel Howard interpreting at the provincial COVID-19 briefings. You might even have joined his Facebook fan club. And come September, you’ll be able to take American Sign Language (ASL) as an official credit course with him at the University of British Columbia.

New 2020 Courses in Arts

From examining how COVID-19 is impacting society, to asking “what do Asian Canadian histories have to do with our present?,” to exposing our misunderstandings of ‘the Middle East’, explore a selection of new courses being offered for the first time ever in the Faculty of Arts.