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Faculty of Arts

This chapter provides an archive of courses offered by UBC. For current course sections and schedules, please visit the online Course Schedule.

  1. AFST - African Studies
  2. ASL - American Sign Language
  3. AMNE - Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
  4. ARCL - Anthropological Archaeology
  5. ANTH - Anthropology
  6. ARST - Archival Studies
  7. ARTH - Art History
  8. ARTC - Arts Co-Op
  9. ARTS - Arts One Program
  10. ASTU - Arts Studies
  11. ACAM - Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies
  12. ASLA - Asian Languages
  13. ASIA - Asian Studies
  14. ASIX - Asian Studies Crossings
  15. CDST - Canadian Studies
  16. CNTO - Cantonese
  17. CTLN - Catalan
  18. CENS - Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
  19. CHIL - Children's Literature
  20. CHIN - Chinese
  21. CMST - Cinema and Media Studies
  22. CINE - Cinema Studies
  23. ARBC - Classical Arabic
  24. CLST - Classical Studies
  25. COLX - Computational Linguistics
  26. CAP - Coordinated Arts Program
  27. CRWR - Creative Writing
  28. CCST - Critical and Curatorial Studies
  29. CSIS - Critical Studies in Sexuality
  30. DANI - Danish
  31. DMED - Digital Media
  32. ECON - Economics
  33. ENGL - English
  34. ENST - Environment and Sustainability
  35. IEST - European Studies
  36. FMST - Family Studies
  37. FIPR - Film Production
  38. FNEL - First Nations and Endangered Languages Program
  39. FNIS - First Nations and Indigenous Studies
  40. FREN - French
  41. GRSJ - Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
  42. GEOS - Geographical Sciences
  43. GEOG - Geography
  44. GERN - German
  45. GMST - German Studies
  46. GREK - Greek
  47. HESO - Health and Society
  48. HEBR - Hebrew
  49. HINU - Hindi-Urdu
  50. HIST - History
  51. INLB - Indigenous Land-Based Studies
  52. INDO - Indonesian
  53. INFO - Information Studies
  54. IAR - Institute of Asian Research
  55. ITAL - Italian
  56. JAPN - Japanese
  57. JRNL - Journalism
  58. KORN - Korean
  59. LATN - Latin
  60. LAST - Latin American Studies
  61. LASO - Law and Society
  62. LIBR - Library and Information Studies
  63. LAIS - Library, Archival and Information Studies
  64. LING - Linguistics
  65. MDIA - Media Studies
  66. MDVL - Medieval Studies
  67. MES - Middle East Studies
  68. ARBM - Modern Standard Arabic
  69. MUSC - Music
  70. NEST - Near Eastern Studies
  71. NEPL - Nepali
  72. NORD - Nordic Studies
  73. PERS - Persian
  74. PHIL - Philosophy
  75. POLS - Polish
  76. POLI - Political Science
  77. PORT - Portuguese
  78. PSYC - Psychology
  79. PPGA - Public Policy and Global Affairs
  80. PUNJ - Punjabi
  81. RGLA - Religion, Literature and The Arts
  82. RELG - Religious Studies
  83. RMST - Romance Studies
  84. RUSS - Russian
  85. SANS - Sanskrit
  86. SLAV - Slavic Studies
  87. SOWK - Social Work
  88. SOCI - Sociology
  89. SOAL - South Asian Languages
  90. SEAL - Southeast Asian Languages
  91. SPAN - Spanish
  92. RGST - Study of Religion
  93. SWAH - Swahili
  94. SWED - Swedish
  95. THTR - Theatre
  96. THFL - Theatre and Film
  97. TIBT - Tibetan Languages
  98. UKRN - Ukrainian
  99. URST - Urban Studies
  100. VISA - Visual Arts
  101. WRDS - Writing, Research, and Discourse Studies
  102. YDSH - Yiddish

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