March 1, 2007

UNBC will be offering nearly 100 courses over the spring and summer,ranging from intensive courses offered over a single week to first-yearcourses that will give new students a chance to get a jump-start ontheir degrees prior to the start of the fall semester. Every year,roughly 1300 students attend UNBC during the spring and summer.

Among the courses are some offerings that will be held in exotic locations:

The Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management program is offering aone-month canoeing expedition down about 500km of the Stikine River innorthwestern BC. Eight students will participate through the month ofAugust, and their experience will include meeting with local residentsand outfitters while considering environmentally responsible tourismopportunities in the area. Professor Pat Maher has been part ofresearch expeditions to Antarctica and participated in a 100-day canoeexpedition from Jasper to the Arctic Ocean.

The Anthropology has two field schools planned for the summer. First,an ethnographic field school will run for nearly three months inpartnership with the community of Kitsumkalum, near Terrace. The fieldschool will start on May 22 and will consist of four courses coveringethnographic methods and research, the history of the KitsumkalumValley, and introductory Tsimshian language training. Ethnography isthe study of societies and cultures. In addition, an archaeologicalfield school will provide students with training in surveying,excavation methods, and working with First Nations. The program willrun from May to July at a site in the Central Interior, allowingstudents to commute daily to the site from Prince George.

Starting on April 25, fourteen students and three Geography professorswill participate in a three-week field school in South Africa.Travelling through Gauteng, the Free State, and KwaZulu-Natal, theywill be studying rural communities, landscape features, and theweathering of rock art.  The fieldwork with be undertaken inconjunction with faculty and students from the University ofPretoria.  Travel will range from the high plateau, through theDrakensberg mountains, down to the Indian Ocean and up to a game parkin northern KwaZulu-Natal. This is the second time that Geography hasled a field school in South Africa.

Registration for all spring and summer courses is now available. To seethe complete list of course offerings, visit www.unbc.ca/summer.

Contact:
Rob van Adrichem, Director of Media and Public Relations, UNBC – 250.960.5622