Faculty research promotion
Development of promotional material for recruitment purposes
Writing content for faculty, student and alumni profiles
Undergraduate and Graduate program promotion
Student Recruitment, graduate and undergraduate
Alumni Relations
Support for events in FCCS departments (promotions, logistics, planning)
Faculty wide event planning
FCCS websites updates and content creation
Social media content management
This program gives students opportunities to study literature and literary criticism and bring lessons learned from that study into their own writing. Creative Writing hosts many visiting author readings each year in order to expose students to a variety of contemporary writing. In this intimate learning community, students are encouraged to hone their skills by exploring a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction.
This program is distinct in Canada for how it approaches questions of identity, power and justice from an intercultural and global perspective. Cultural Studies combines courses from a variety of Humanities and Social Science disciplines, including pop culture, anthropology, literature and gender studies. The program is organized into three related streams: Media and Popular Cultures; Global Cultural Studies; and Critical and Cultural Theory.
Whether you’re new to the language or have advanced language skills, French Studies can lead to excellent opportunities in Canada and the Francophone world. Program courses provide a basis in French language skills and opportunities to explore French literature and culture in Canadian, global, contemporary and historical contexts. Options in the French Studies program include study abroad and student exchanges with France.
This program offers artists a unique combination of courses in performance practice, visual arts, and creative writing. Interdisciplinary Performance provides training in movement and voice, ensemble work, improvisation, collaborative and solo performance creation. Course offerings include a wide range of artistic media such as video art, film, photography, painting, sculpture and installation.
Spanish Studies offers a comprehensive learning experience immersed in one of
the world’s most widely spoken languages. In addition to language skills, students develop an understanding of the diverse literatures and cultures of Spain and Latin America. Linguistics study develops understanding of the relationship between language and culture. Program options include study abroad in Spanish-speaking environments.
This program balances academic study and studio work, and it provides a critical and contemporary art education. Students acquire the foundation skills and theories to work in a variety of media, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and digital documentary production. Integral to Visual Arts are innovative academic electives, visiting artist workshops and opportunities to participate in myriad art exhibitions.
This program explores the world’s diverse cultures, visual heritages and art scenes throughout history. Faculty research focuses on Europe, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and Canada. It brings a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on subjects ranging from the Islamic World to Ghana’s Ashanti Region, early visual representations of the Okanagan Valley to Surrealist art and film.
Award-winning photographer Edward Burtynsky collects images from an oilfield. His October 22 presentation, Landscape of Human Systems, is part of UBC Okanagan’s Distinguished Speaker Series.
(Photo credit: Noah Weinzweig)
from left to right: Marie Loughlin, Grisel Garcia-Perez, Wisdom Tettey, Anderson Araujo, Francisco Pena, Allison Hargreaves
As part of our ongoing efforts to recognize contributions and excellence in a variety of areas, FCCS has established four awards for the members of the FCCS community. These awards present FCCS with yet another opportunity to express gratitude for the contributions that advance our mission and the objectives of our strategic plan, and to shine the spotlight on those contributions.
The 2014 Teaching Excellence Award recipient is David Jefferess. David received this award on the basis of his strong evaluations and support from students; activities undertaken outside of the classroom that furthered learning for students and the Okanagan community; mentorship and training opportunities for students; and public dissemination and discussion of interdisciplinary student research related to “internationalization.” David’s students acknowledged David’s work as an important contribution to student research training that extends beyond the classroom.
The 2014 Teaching Innovation Award recipients are Anderson Araujo, Hussein Keshani, and Francisco Peña for their collaboration on a model for co-teaching. The project enacted, in its successful co-teaching model and in its unique curriculum development, a commitment to the Faculty’s strategic goals of interdisciplinarity and internationalization– benefiting students within and across Spanish, and Art History and Visual Culture.
FCCS Service Award
Marie Loughlin was the recipient of the 2014 Service Award for her contributions to the Faculty over the 2013 academic year. It was noted that her service contributions supported the values and principles of FCCS, and fostered a positive, respectful, collegial, and mutually supportive work environment, and a sense of community within FCCS.
The 2014 Community Engagement Award recipients are Grisel Garcia Perez, Allison Hargreaves and David Jefferess.
Allison Hargreaves and David Jefferess were nominated for this award for their programming and hosting of the AlterKnowledge Discussion Series. The series seeks to bring people together to discuss, share, and (un)learn, focusing on critical engagements with the way colonialism continues to shape relationships and identities in both local and global contexts.
Grisel Garcia Perez was nominated for the Community Engagement Award by former student, Himayani Sharma.
“I am nominating Dr. Garcia-Perez for her outstanding leadership and tireless efforts in addressing and encouraging awareness about Kelowna’s community and integrating it with the curriculum of the Spanish courses she teaches” says Sharma.
In Spanish 301, Dr. Garcia-Perez offers a program of integration of community service learning which linked Spanish language learning to community-based experiences at the Salvation Army, the Food Bank, and in the Spanish program at UBCO.
To learn more about the FCCS Awards and the nomination process, please visit www.ubc.ca/okanagan/fccs/awards.html