As you are approaching the end of your first year at UBC, you might wonder: what comes after CAP? You may wish to find courses that, like CAP, bring different disciplines and viewpoints into conversation.
The Faculty of Arts offers many exciting interdisciplinary courses for you to take. These courses span a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs, including but not limited to African Studies, Latin American Studies, Law and Society, and Program in the Study of Religion. Please see below for a selection of the courses offered for 2024W!
African Studies Program
Cultural, historical, and geographical issues of African Studies (AFST 250)
This course provides an ethnographic and ethnological survey of Sub-Saharan African peoples and culture. It highlights the change and the resistance to change in the period since the age of exploration through the Berlin Conference of 1885, which redrew the map of Africa to serve the needs of European nations, but it also gives an in-depth look at Africa’s geography including its ecology as well as its ‘traditional’ cultures.
Latin American Studies Program
Introduction to Latin American Studies (LAST 100)
Learn about the cultures, politics, and environments of countries from Argentina to Mexico. In this interdisciplinary course in term 1, students will learn through music, novels, film, and more and reflect on Vancouver’s relationship with the Americas.
Issues of Development in Modern Latin America (LAST 205)
Drawing from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and political science, this course introduces students to a range of issues such as extractivism, environmental degradation, Indigenous rights, workers, international debt, and the drug trade.
Medieval Studies Program
Introduction to the Middle Ages (MDVL 210)
Explore a range of disciplines through which scholars approach the Middle Ages: history, literature, art, religion, music, material culture, and theory.
Program in the Study of Religion
Introduction to the Study of Religion (RGST 200)
This course takes a comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary approach to humans’ engagement with the sacred. It examines religions as complex systems that share certain fundamental common features. The primary focus in this course is not theology, but practice: what people do and why they do it. Additionally, the class examines how spirituality fits into the broader context of everyday human life. While we will examine a wide variety of religions, this course is not designed to study each religion in depth.
