Undergraduate and graduate programs in FCCS offer the study of historical and contemporary creativity in various forms. The Faculty’s programs cultivate students’ abilities to interrogate our cultural and natural heritage; to determine which elements need to be preserved; to explore how best these can be sustained; and to better the human condition.

Maria Alexopoulos cultural studies class

Undergraduate Studies

The Faculty offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts; a Bachelor of Media Studies; Bachelor of Arts Degrees with majors in Art History and Visual Culture, Creative Writing, English, Cultural Studies, French, and in Languages; minors in Theatre, Spanish and Medieval and Renaissance Studies; as well as courses in Chinese, Communications and Rhetoric, Digital Humanities, Film, German, Japanese, Korean, and World Literatures.

Undergraduate Options

Megan Smith with graduate students in her research space

Graduate Studies

We offer graduate students opportunities to pursue studies in and across disciplines in the humanities and fine arts. By the nature of its disciplinary and interdisciplinary work, FCCS is dedicated to developing a community that offers students an opportunity to work at the graduate level in an intimate learning environment focused on effective teaching and the integration of creativity and research.

The Faculty off­ers Master of Arts in English, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts and PhD in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, and Master of Design.

Graduate Options

FUNDING & AWARDS

The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies is dedicated to supporting our undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of financial awards.

STUDENT RESOURCES

UBC Okanagan and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies provide students with many services and resources to ensure they have access to the services they need.

STUDENT LIFE

UBCO is a tight-knit community. The Okanagan campus is an intimate learning community where new ways of thinking attract exceptional students and faculty.

Indigenous Intensive, Tania Willard exhibition in the FINA Gallery

Indigenous Art Intensive

This month-long residency gathers artists, curators, writers and scholars to engage in contemporary ideas and discourse—a place for new ideas rooted in Indigenous art-making.

INDIGENOUS ART INTENSIVE