Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies: UBC's Okanagan Campus

FCCS is a community engaged faculty whose work combines traditional scholarly and hands-on skills with contemporary technologies. We are a meeting place for passionate thinkers, researchers, makers, and artists committed to a university experience that builds connections between global, local, settler, and indigenous communities.

Students along with faculty member Myron Campbell viewing an exhibition in the FINA Gallery

Undergraduate Studies

We offer the study of historical and contemporary creativity in various forms. FCCS offers undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Visual Culture, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, French, English, and Languages, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts, as well as a Bachelor of Media Studies. The Faculty also offers courses in other subject areas including Chinese, Communications and Rhetoric, Digital Humanities, Film, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (minor), Theatre (minor), and World Literatures.

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Graduate student Caitlin Voth with faculty member Karis Shearer in the AMP Lab

Graduate Studies

Our graduate programming aims to provide sustainable intellectual and practical academic training to students who demonstrate exceptional scholarly potential.

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