Looking for opportunities to apply your learning towards understanding and acting on complex global issues? These Winter courses and programs offered by ORICE provide students a chance to develop skills and experience related to their studies, and bridge the gap between academia, civil society and the world around us.
ORICE offers two primary types of programming:
- Co-curricular programs allow you to develop skills related to your studies outside of your coursework. You work directly on projects, some with community partners, that are not for course credit but still apply learnings from your degree.
- Academic course programs also include community-based projects, but are tailored to the learning outcomes of a specific for-credit course. The community-based opportunities for both range between 8 to 12 weeks in length.
Last year, students who were enrolled in an academic course we partnered with shared their experiences and learnings from the experiential education integration.
Current Co-curricular Programs
Collective for Gender+ in Research Engagementship: Distributing a Guide for Data Justice in Community-Based Data Collection Projects (Cohort #5)
Open to all upper-year undergraduate & graduate students.
Recruiting for this, the fifth cohort of this project will work with both regional and international community organizations/partners to share and distribute a community guide amongst pre-existing networks of trust. Far from pretending to reinvent the wheel of data collection and management processes, this project acknowledges that community organizations already work with data and seeks to identify points of convergence between current methods of data collection, and Gender+ lenses.
We are looking for dynamic and engaging communicators who have previous experience in community organizing and who are passionate about ‘making visible’ the issues that surround data justice.
Scholars At Risk & Human Rights Collective: Academic Freedom and Human Rights Research Engagementship
Open to all upper-year undergraduate students.
This co-curricular opportunity is a collaboration between Scholars at Risk (SAR), SAR’s Canada Section (SAR-CAN), the UBC SAR & HRC, and the UBC Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE). Students will engage in human rights reporting and analysis that will further our understanding of threats to academic freedom in Canada and the policies in place to protect it. Student research conducted on the current climate in Canada will also be of use to the wider SAR Network and other organizations which take a rights-based approach to protect the life and liberty of scholars around the world.
Ethics of International Engagement and Service-Learning Engagementship Opportunity: Updating the Guidebook 10 years later
Open to all upper-year undergraduate students.
The Ethics of International Engagement and Service-Learning (EIESL) project fosters collaborations across faculty, staff, students, and international partners to bring reflective attention to the ways that we think, act, speak, and engage as global citizens committed to social and ecological justice. We are looking for collaborators with skills in project design, and a strong interest in ethical participatory community engagement. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to continual learning and engagement with the topics of ethics, social justice, anti-racism, and related conversations.
Storytelling & Advocacy Engagementship Opportunity: Producing a series of podcast episodes on the intersections of storytelling and advocacy
Open to all upper-year undergraduate students.
Far from showcasing already-made ‘solutions’ or ‘theories’, it is to discuss, engage others in dialog and introduce the complexities of advocacy that the UBC Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) seeks to develop a series of podcast episodes on the multiple edges of this topic. This medium will also be an opportunity to further unpack the inputs of, build upon the work of, and give lasting life to the past events organized by ORICE and its current projects intersecting advocacy, such as the Scholars at Risk and Human Rights Collective and the Collective for Gender+ in Research.
Academic Courses
ECON 490 008 Problems and Controversies in the Economy: Responding to Community Priorities in a Global Context
ECON 490 008 is a 3 credit capstone Economics course from January to August including a 3 month international service-learning placement from May to August. ECON 490 is the capstone course of the Economics Majors program at the VSE. It is designed to introduce students to hands-on economic research, in a small-group setting, with close supervision from a faculty member. This section of ECON 490 engages community based experiential research through ISL as a pedagogy.
SOWK 440J Global Mental Health: Praxis and Practice in a Global Setting
Global Mental Health: Praxis Course introduces students to an emerging and important global mental health field. SOWK 440J/571 is a 3 credit course that will take place in Nairobi, Kenya and will be taught by Professor Mohamed Ibrahim. It will take place over 4 weeks in May 2022 with the option for students to stay for an additional 12 weeks to complete a practicum.
