Discover the diverse learning options offered by the Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences, and Humanities (FISSSH). Open to all learners (registered UNBC students and non-registered), these non-requisite courses are your opportunity to study a specific area of interest, consider future degree options, or gain credit for your current degree. 

Explore your options with courses ranging from Indigenous language, culture, and history; to contemporary global politics; women and gender studies; and media studies of comics and graphic novels. Choose from courses available online or face-to-face (F2F).

Registration

• Current UNBC students register through your UNBC student portal account.
• Non-registered learners must complete an application through EducationPlannerBC before creating a UNBC student portal account and completing their registration.

Online courses (100 Level)

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: ENGL 100
Instructor: Troy Bordon
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 – June 9)

An introduction to the reading of the three major genres: poetry, fiction, and drama. Gain an understanding of the basic structural principles and rhetorical strategies of literary texts through a theoretical analysis of specific poems, fictions, and plays.

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: FNST 100
Instructor: Tannis Reynolds
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 – June 9)

Introduction to the languages, history, culture, and enduring presence of the aboriginal people of Canada, intended to explore the range of aboriginal social formations, both past and present, and to consider the future.

Explore international and global structures, actors, processes, ideas, issues and events with the objective of understanding and explaining large-scale change in our world. This is course is organized around four subject domains of global studies: 1) Environment and sustainability 2) Culture and diversity 3) Politics, security and social justice 4) Economy and international development

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: WMST 100
Instructor: Mercedes Dorrbercker Drake
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 – June 9)

Study past and present women's positions in society and contributions to society from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: POLS 100
Instructor: Douglas Jarvis
Course Dates: 2023 Summer Intersession (July 4 – August 11)

Introduction to the basic concepts of political science through an examination of contemporary political issues: local, provincial, national and international.

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: INTS 121
Instructor: Ami Hagiwara
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 - June 9)

Introductory Japanese language course focuses on the four basic linguistic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Learn daily vocabulary, phonetic alphabets, and written characters.

Online courses (200 Level)

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: POLS 200
Instructor: Douglas Jarvis
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 - June 9)

An exploration of how Canadians organize their joint efforts to govern themselves at local, provincial, and federal levels. Focus on the political culture and Canada's realization in constitutional "rules of the game".

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: HIST 205
Instructor: Xin Chen
Course Dates: 2023 Summer Intersession (July 4 - August 9)

Explore China's history from the earliest records to 21st century with a special focus on the transformation of its territory, culture, ethnic composition, bureaucratic structure, and political system. 

Examine selected trends in the development of the novel or short story, or of a particular mode or genre of representation. 

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: WMST 209
Instructor: TBD
Course Dates: 2023 Summer Intersession (July 4 - August 11)

An examination of the construction of femininity and masculinity in such visual technologies as advertising, video, television, and film.

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: ANTH 213
Instructor: Megan Caldwell
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 – June 9)

Examine the diversity of human cultures and languages through the comparison of contemporary societies, and patterns of social organization.

Delivery Mode: Online
Course number: ANTH 298/498/WMST 298
Instructor: TBA
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 – June 9)

Examine sex and sexual health through a medical anthropological lens. Advance your knowledge on subjects of sex, gender, sexuality, and human sexual anatomy and physiology. Explore issues related to reproductive health, the influence of sex on human behaviour, the impact of sex education on sexual health outcomes, and analyze the effects of differential access to sexual health care supports and services.

In-person courses

Delivery Mode: In-person
Course number: FNST 161
Instructor: TBA
Course Dates: 2023 Summer Intersession (June 15 -29)

This course focuses on one First Nation's culture. It may be taught in a number of different sections, each of which may focus on a different culture, e.g. Haida, Gitxsan, Tlingit, Sekani, Beaver, Slavey, Tahltan, Chilcotin, or other Athabaskan culture, Shushwap, Metis. Student transcripts will indicate the specific culture studied.

Delivery Mode: In-person
Course number: ANTH 230
Instructor: Richard Lazenby
Course Dates: 2023 Spring Intersession (May 1 – June 9)

Examine the contribution of anthropology to the recovery, identification and interpretation of recent human skeletal remains. Explore topics such as forensic archaeology, methods of biological and personal identification, trauma and taphonomy, crime scene analysis, the anthropologist as an expert witness, war crimes and mass graves.