2024 Winter Courses

For a list of the courses UBC History will be offering for the 2024 Winter session, click here. Please note that we offer the following courses that meet the new Faculty of Arts Place and Power breadth requirement:

  • HIST 107 - Global Indigenous Histories
  • HIST 305 - History of British Columbia*
  • HIST 400 - Practice of Oral History
    *only for 2025 Winter and onwards

The Department of History at the University of British Columbia is a vibrant centre for scholarship – ranking among the top history departments in the world. Our professors are dedicated teachers and award-winning researchers.

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The skills I learned in my history degree primed me to be a good, skeptical journalist.

Joanna Chiu
BA History (Honours)

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Apply for the History Honours Program

 
The application portal for the 2025W admission cycle for the Honours program in History is now

Alumna Q&A with Georgia Twiss (MA History 2022)

 
UBC History alumna Georgia Twiss (MA '22), Reference Historian at The Museum & Archives of North Vancouver, shares her journey from student to working historian and the valuable lessons she learned along the way.

Shifts in the Shifting Tides History Conference

 
Professor Tina Loo, UBC History faculty and conference co-organizer, shares a reflection on the 2025 Shifting Tides, an undergraduate and graduate student conference that took place this year on January 31 – February 2, 2025.
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