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Get in the know about Ways of Knowing

Get in the know about Ways of Knowing

Learn all about each breadth area and how your custom course plan can help you progress toward your academic, career, and personal goals.

Find your way through the UBC Arts career ecosystem

Find your way through the UBC Arts career ecosystem

When it comes to your career goals, the Faculty of Arts and UBC Vancouver have many resources and services available to support you.

Get to know your 2023/24 Arts Undergraduate Society

Get to know your 2023/24 Arts Undergraduate Society

We spoke with AUS members and UBC Arts students to highlight what the AUS has in store for this fall, and how members of the Arts undergraduate community can get involved.

Need an elective? Explore what’s on offer this Winter

Need an elective? Explore what’s on offer this Winter

Still on the lookout for an elective to complete your 2023/24 Winter session timetable? Enhance your Arts degree by enrolling in any of these classes with open seats and no pre-requisites.

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Arts Perspectives on AI: Fearing (your own) language in the age of artificial intelligence

Dr. David Gramling and Arts student Matthew Chan conducted an experiment when Chan’s work was flagged as evidencing AI-generated features. Read key learnings about the relationship between artificial intelligence and linguaphobia.

A digital painting. Two individuals—one with a visible disability and another with a non-visible disability—are in an empty and dark classroom. They are unveiling a curtain that has stormy clouds and thunder printed on it. There is a bright yellow light illuminating the room.

Reimagining Academia: Unmasking challenges faced by disabled scholars

When Olivia Dreisinger started her podcast, Diagnosis Grad School, she wanted to take people on a multifaceted journey through the lens of a disabled graduate scholar. We spoke with her about the realities of ableism in higher education and how universities can better support disabled scholars throughout their academic journey.

Arts faculty and graduate students among 2023 Public Engagement Award recipients

Arts faculty and graduate students among 2023 Public Engagement Award recipients

Public Engagement Awards are given to individuals and partner organizations who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years, and whose work has contributed to the expansion of the range of voices in public discourse.

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New 2023 courses in the Faculty of Arts

Registration starts soon for the 2023/24 Winter Session! From beginners’ classes in Swahili to explorations of Arctic art and activism, here are some of the exciting new courses being offered for the first time ever in the Faculty of Arts.

7 Arts courses you can take to learn about Indigenous history and culture

7 Arts courses you can take to learn about Indigenous history and culture

Explore a list of Arts courses you can take this upcoming Winter session to learn more about Indigenous topics. These courses are open to all Arts students without any prerequisites, and are taught by Indigenous faculty.

Peer advice for incoming trans & non-binary Arts students

Peer advice for incoming trans & non-binary Arts students

Your first year at UBC can be a very busy time, especially for trans and non-binary students learning to navigate university systems, so we’ve compiled some peer advice that might make the transition to university a bit smoother.