Centre For Climate Justice
The Centre for Climate Justice advances the urgent social, political and economic changes necessary to address the climate crisis. By supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary and intersectional research across diverse knowledge systems, the Centre for Climate Justice connects critical research and community engagement to meet the demands for climate justice.
Centre for Migration Studies
The Centre for Migration Studies seeks to understand the drivers and consequences of international migration through research, education, and outreach. Research covers various migration-related topics, including social inclusion and integration, immigration policy, public opinion and xenophobia, border politics, and the intersection of Indigeneity and immigration.
Centre for European Studies
The Centre for European Studies supports a broad, transnational view of Europe, embodied through the collective work of scholars across the Social Sciences and Humanities. Through its speaker series, research colloquia, and other events, the Centre provides a space for critical examinations and discussions of the legacies of Europe, European current affairs and scholarship, and European cultures and societies.
Vancouver School of Economics
The Vancouver School of Economics consistently ranks as a top economic in school in Canada. The school’s faculty are ranked first in Canada for research productivity and have influenced public policies on a variety of issues including taxes and minimum wage rates. Students will examine the social, cross-cultural and ethical dimensions of economic decision-making.
United States Studies
The U.S. Studies Program offers an exciting interdisciplinary program through the collaboration of the Departments of Political Science, Economics, and History. Undergraduates will combine coursework on the U.S. across departments and gain an in-depth understanding of U.S. politics, economics, and history.
Urban Studies
The Urban Studies minor allows students to explore how social, economic, and cultural processes shape cities – and how urbanization itself reshapes these sociocultural processes. The minor program is designed to emphasize the links between local and global processes and the importance of context and contingency.
Science and Technology Studies
The transdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) emerged in the 1970s out of a growing concern for the social and political effects of scientific and technological developments. Engaging with the human dimensions of science and technology, STS uses methods from a variety of perspectives associated with the humanities and social sciences.
Religion, Literature, and the Arts
The Religion, Literature and the Arts program provides a solid education in a range of disciplines using an interdisciplinary model that includes knowledge of religious, literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, psychological, and sociological methodologies. The program allows students to integrate a variety of approaches, through courses in a number of departments within the Faculty of Arts.
Modern European Studies
Modern European Studies is an interdepartmental undergraduate program of the Faculty of Arts. It offers students the opportunity to combine European languages, history, art, music, literature, philosophy, geography, sociology, anthropology, politics, and economics in a broadly based concentration that will extend and deepen their knowledge of European issues.
Medieval Studies
The Medieval Studies program at UBC offers students an interdisciplinary approach to Medieval history, older than the modern system of organizing knowledge by “disciplines.” Through a study of the Medieval period, students can come to an understanding of a civilization in both its unity and diversity.