UBC Okanagan

We have a new B.A., and a new stream in our M.A. English Program on Literature and Place, and besides that, our undergraduate English Program offers provocative and intellectually engaging studies of literature and the politics of reading. Come study with us!

Looking for a course to take next term? This 3rd year English course, ENGL 333: Canadian Fiction is taught by English instructor Lindsay Balfour. It is a survey Canadian Literature written in English and concerns some of the most pressing social and cultural realities of both historical and contemporary Canadian life. In this course students will read works of fiction with particular attention to human migration and insecurity, technology, sexuality, gender, race, indigeneit...y, and ecological justice. This course asks: What role does literature have to play in mediating contemporary relations of power and privilege in Canada? What responsibility do we have as readers and witnesses? What is the relationship between reality and representation, in the sense that these are works of fiction, but ones that draw on issues pulled from the headlines and real experiences? There is still room, register today! https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca//undergraduate-academic-pl/courses/

There’s never been a more exciting time to pursue a degree in the liberal arts. ~Dean Bryce Traister

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Congratulations to Abi, an alumna from our English program.

The Masters of Arts in English at UBC Okanagan concentrates in literary studies and the concept of place. Deadline to apply: Jan. 15 Find out more: fccs.ok.ubc.ca/ma-english

Further details about Virtual Congress...

Dr. Greg Garrard is the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS, and a Professor teaching courses in English and Sustainability. He is a supervisor in the MA in English program. Dr. Garrard teaches, ‘Writing the Okanagan’, a graduate place-based course that seeks to enable students to perceive connections between the bioregion they inhabit the Okanagan-Similkameen watershed, essentially and the vastness of the global biosphere, where the familiar (and depressing) ‘global environmental crisis’ is understood to be happening.

Nominations for the FCCS Teaching Awards are now being accepted.