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.

• The virtual queue opens 15 minutes before drop-in starts.
• Text “UBC” to (604) 229-4098, then text "2" to join the advising line and follow the prompts to receive your approximate wait time.
• You will be notified when you are next to check-in at the front desk inside Buchanan D111, and you will have 10 minutes to arrive.

Hours

Friday, 1pm – 4pm

Virtual drop-in and the waiting room survey will close early if we reach capacity for the day.

How to join the virtual waiting room for drop-in

• Fill out the waiting room survey. The survey will open at 12:45 p.m. and close early if drop-in reaches capacity.
• Identify who you are and why you are contacting Advising through the survey. You will be asked for your student number and name. Your name will need to match your Zoom display name.
• Once you complete the survey, you will see a completion page with a Zoom link to join the virtual waiting room. Click on the Zoom link to enter the Zoom room.
• Keep your browser open and be attentive to the Zoom room. Once you are next in line to meet with an advisor, a Zoom host will ask more about the nature of your question(s) and you will be placed in a breakout room with an advisor.
• Expect long wait times. Advising drop-in sessions are typically 15 minutes in duration.

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 
• Patrice Shang 

Senior Associate Academic Advisor

Senior Associate Advisors provide support in the following areas: Course planning for Major and Minor programs, graduation, study abroad, transfer credits and experiential learning opportunities. They can also provide academic advising help with degree planning, graduation planning, academic planning, learning and basic advising on academic concessions. 

• Isabel Chan 
• Arbee Gancena 

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 
• Abdulrahman Alnaar 
• Chavah Avraham 
• Amy Becir 
• Janelle Blackman 
• Claudia Buffone 
• Dawn Cassell 
• Magali Chevalier
• Natasha Philander
• 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.