Arts 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
• 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 advising request forms page for credit limit increases, graduation checks, year-level promotions, and program changes.
• Explore resources on academic concession.

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.