Faculty Spotlight: Shirley McDonald
Shirley McDonald is a lecturer in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, teaching classes in English with a focus on the teaching of academic writing. Dr. McDonald moved to the Okanagan with her family in 1994, and completed her BA in 1999 at Okanagan university College (now UBCO). She went on to finish her […]
Immersive Technologies Seminar Series
This series is a collaboration between CITech and the Media Studies program.
Art history lecturer Nathalie Hager receives teaching award
Award recognizes faculty members for teaching approaches that develop experiential learning, interdisciplinarity, internationalization, undergraduate research and scholarship.
Community of Practice
Drawing on shared experiences in regular bi-weekly instructional meetings, faculty members collectively developed teaching and learning approaches to engage students.
Graduate students in FCCS awarded 2022 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council announced the recipients for the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship in the fall of 2022. We are proud to share that three of our doctoral students have received the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships, which provides financial support for high-calibre students engaged in doctoral programs in the social sciences and humanities. Below […]
Research Project Spotlight: Exploring transatlantic (small town) stories through a range of multimedia and immersive technologies
Community-based writing project offers students opportunities for growth in their storytelling abilities
Help Teach: a podcast to support teachers in their efforts to make their classes more accessible
Second year student Mihai Covaser creates podcast for Communications and Rhetoric course project
Alumni Profile: Kelly Doyle
Dissertation explores how the figure of the zombie in horror films from 2001 to 2012 exposes and challenges the discursive formulation of what it means to be human in the context of historical events like 9/11: who can be othered, and to what end.
Faculty Spotlight: Nikhita Obeegadoo
Professor’s research focuses on oceans and archipelagoes as spaces of intertwined cultural and ecological legacies.
Indigenizing the Japanese Language Curriculum: Lessons and Perspectives from Indigenous Voices
Workshop will address theoretical questions regarding Indigenization, Decolonization, and focus on the experience and methodologies of instructors involved in teaching Indigenous languages both within formal academic institutions and in community settings.