Academic Advising

• Contact your program/department directly for questions about your Honours, major, or minor program
• Contact UBC Admissions if you are a prospective student
• Contact the UBC School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies if you are a graduate student
• International students and COVID-19
• High school and post-secondary transfer credit
• Financial emergencies
• UBC Vancouver Housing

• Understand how to add, drop or withdraw from courses.
• Learn what to do if a course is full.
• Visit the self-serve online advising requests page for credit limit increases, graduation checks, year-level promotions, and program changes.
• Explore resources on academic concession.
• Review your degree navigator report.

UBC uses Calendly, an online appointment scheduling application provided by Calendly LLC and hosted on servers located outside of Canada (specifically, in the US), to enable current and prospective students to schedule academic advising appointments and discussions. UBC collects some of your personal information (name, e-mail address, and requested discussion topic) in order to schedule an appointment with an appropriate advisor. UBC collects this information under the authority of section 26(c) of BC's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). UBC requires you consent to disclose your personal information to Calendly and to store and access this information outside of Canada in order to provide you access to Calendly's services. By clicking the "Schedule Event" button, you are granting your consent for your personal information to be disclosed by UBC to Calendly and for that information to be stored and accessed outside of Canada. If you choose to withhold consent or have any questions or concerns about the privacy or security and/or disclosure of your personal information, please contact arts.advisor@ubc.ca.

Appointments are for currently-registered UBC Arts undergraduate students. If you do not see an available appointment or see the message "no times this month" it does not mean all appointments are full for the month. More will be released three days in advance.

If you would prefer to meet with a particular advisor, you can check for their availability and schedule an appointment through their personal scheduling link:

Associate Advisors

Associate Advisors provide support in the following areas: Course planning for Major and Minor programs, graduation, study abroad, transfer credits and experiential learning opportunities.

• Jinjoo Lee
• Sophie Lee
• Luis Sanches

Academic Advisors

Academic Advisors provide support in the following areas: Degree planning, graduation planning, post-graduation plans, academic concession, academic planning, learning, career aspirations and physical and mental health.

• Khalid Ahmed
• Chavah Avraham
• Amy Becir
• Janelle Blackman
• Shane Campbell
• Dawn Cassell
• Isabel Chan
• Arbee Gancena
• Natasha Philander
• Maddy Schulte
• Patrice Shang
• Joshua Tran
• Jing Yao
• Helen You

Mission

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

Vision

We strive to be a catalyst for service innovation, furthering purposeful, developmental, and transformative learning for students as they explore the significance and potential of their Arts degree.

Learning

We commit to life-long learning: a transformative process through which we encourage curiosity, refine our praxis, and grow as educators and learners.

Collaboration

We build respectful, proactive and strategic relationships internally and across UBC’s campus community in order to craft successful shared outcomes for all stakeholders.

Empathy

We respectfully acknowledge and value the beliefs, feelings and perspectives of others and believe in their ability to learn, grow and take agency.

Equity

We work intentionally and creatively to learn about and address historical and current systemic issues in fairness and opportunity.

Integrity

We engage in practices that are reliable, principled, and accountable in order to ensure that our work is accurate, relevant and responsive to the dynamic landscape at UBC.