Make informed and thoughtful decisions throughout your undergraduate degree with the help of Arts Academic Advising.
Resources to review before contacting 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.
Drop-in Advising
Drop-in advising is offered to all currently-registered UBC Arts undergraduate students.
Hours
In-person: Monday – Thursday, 1pm – 4pm
Virtual: Friday, 1pm – 4pm
The queue will close early if we reach capacity for the day.
Arts Academic Advising uses a virtual queuing system so that you can join the line for drop-in advising at your convenience. Providing a phone number during sign-in allows you to receive updates on wait times and easily manage your spot in the queue via text message. You’ll receive a text message and/or email when you reach the front of the line.
Advising Appointments
Advising appointments are for currently-registered UBC Arts undergraduate students. Check our list of self-serve online advising services as you may not need to speak with an advisor to get the help you need.
Use the Calendly scheduling application below to check for available times and schedule your 20 minute appointment with an academic advisor one day in advance. Before using Calendly, please review the privacy statement regarding your consent to the disclosure and storage of your personal information.
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.
Book a first available general appointment
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.
Book with a specific advisor
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.
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
- Dawn Cassell
- Isabel Chan
- Arbee Gancena
- Giudi Ghebre
- Jinjoo Lee
- Sophie Lee
- Sofia Li
- Natasha Philander
- Sophie Rock
- Luis Sanches
- Maddy Schulte
- Patrice Shang
- Joshua Tran
- Elise Vu
- Jing Yao
- Helen You
Advising workshops
Get specialized support from advisors in an online group setting.
Upcoming Workshops
Contact Arts Academic Advising
Use our self-serve online advising requests or contact us through our online form.
Office hours
Monday – Friday
9:00am – 4:00pm Pacific Time
Location
Room 2060, Brock Commons South
6180 Walter Gage Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Phone
(604) 822-4028
Monitored Monday to Friday, 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm Pacific Time
If you’re unable to reach us by phone, email us at arts.advisor@ubc.ca.
About Arts Academic Advising
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.
