Through seminars, course readings, and experiential learning, the power of narrative is explored as it intersects with ecological and Indigenous knowings and practices toward a more multi-storied, just, and ecologically sustainable world.
This is a one-month UBC Global Seminar program in China allows students to learn forestry and conservation in Asia through lectures and field trips to nature reserves, plantations, wood industry firms and national parks in China. Prerequisite: Third-year standing.
This Interprofessional Health and Human Service (IHHS) course considers how health and human service professionals can effectively practice with people with disabilities from a social justice perspective. Social and personal context and practice responses are examined. Offered as IHHS 407 prior to September 2015. Credit will be granted for only one of SOWK 453 or IHHS 407.
This course will be offered, as opportunities arise, by distinguished scientists visiting at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. This course will be of a specialized nature and at a level appropriate to graduate or senior undergraduate students.
This course will be offered, as opportunities arise, by distinguished scientists visiting at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. It is expected that the course will generally be of a specialized nature and be at a level appropriate to graduate or senior undergraduate students.
This course intends to provide participants with an overview of Health Education/Promotion theory and curriculum including Health Education in public health/school settings. The course perspective recognizes that healthy children and youth as well as adults are better able to learn and that schools and communities are well suited to be able to influence health. Particular emphasis will be placed on the following approaches: full service schools, the comprehensive school health movement, health integrated across the curriculum versus health as a separate course.
This course aims to prepare participants to teach secondary theatre as a teachable subject. In class, participants will experience and analyze a variety of theatre activities and theoretical concepts that can be adapted to the participants’ specific learning/teaching objectives. Through artful reflective inquiry-based practice, participants are supported to develop their imagination and artistic impulses, and to develop their theatre-based meta-teaching skills. By exploring and reflecting both critically and appreciatively upon the in-between spaces of theatre education, participants will be better able to bridge pedagogical theatre education theories to classroom practices.
The course will begin with an exploration of personal perspectives on the human-nature relationship. We will inquire into the following areas: our personal eco-philosophies; place-based education through field experiences; and nature study and becoming a naturalist. We will explore conceptions of Environmental Education (EE) and its research and practice by incorporating participants’ teaching and research interests, ideally across sciences, languages, humanities, and arts.
The course is focused on how the ecosystem modelling framework Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE, www.ecopath.org) can be used to address scientific questions related to food web modelling, and notably how to address questions as part of an Ecosystem Based Management process.
The course critically examines theories of place-based education with a particular focus on Indigenous theories and approaches. Students who complete the course will have a theoretical and experiential basis for researching and enacting Indigenous place-based education.