UVic students are currently visiting historic sites in Europe in a field school examining migration, the refugee crisis and memorialization of the Holocaust. And the learning doesn't stop in Europe: they'll be at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in mid August, then home to UVic for a symposium.
Forensic anthropology course conducts in-death investigations. All jokes about popular TV shows like Sherlock and CSI aside, real-world forensic anthropologists who assist in identifying and locating of missing persons share a desire for problem solving, critical thinking and a deep curiosity. Stephanie Calce鈥檚 forensic anthropology class exposes students to the huge field of forensic science through hands-on projects. Spoiler alert: the students live.
A poster on the office door of UVic Human Rights Education Advisor Moussa Magassa features a photo of a ring of children, their feet forming a circle of upraised soles. Below the touching image is a quote from Desmond Tutu including the line, 鈥淚 am human because I belong.鈥�
The study of borders in the 21st century stretches beyond traditional definitions to encompass not only real boundaries, but remote and virtual borders too.
A motorcycle coffee shop might seem like an odd place for a university class鈥檚 research fair but not if the students are presenting their work on 鈥淟iterature and Motorcycle Cultures.鈥� The 番茄社区 English course takes an interdisciplin鈥�
The nearly 3 billion hours per week spent playing video games across the world could be put to much better use鈥攁t least that鈥檚 the notion that was up for debate and discussion at IdeaFest鈥檚 Games Without Frontiers: The Social Power of Video Games symposium on March 9.
Most things only get better with age鈥攊n IdeaFest鈥檚 case, they also get bigger. Now in its second year, the 番茄社区鈥檚 popular festival of ideas has doubled in both length and content, running over two weeks from March 4鈥�15 and featuring more than 50 free events from every faculty on campus (and more than half of UVic鈥檚 interdisciplinary research centres).
The large and complex challenges facing society today don鈥檛 respect the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. In support of research and education that address such problems, UVic has鈥攆or decades鈥攐ffered a growing number of programs that integrate approaches and insights from different disciplines, providing students with deeper and more holistic understandings of complex issues.
