The previous curriculum put a lot of emphasis on handwriting, and being able to write each character, stroke by stroke. Now, handwriting is worth a very small percentage of a student's grade and emphasis is put on typing for exams and unit tests.
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There are about ten people lurking in the corner of 12 King’s Pub, a no-nonsense sports bar on Kingsway just off Main. Each one has a sheet of paper, on which they will draw one panel of a comic strip.
UBC women's hockey defeated the Lethbridge Pronghorns twice this past weekend: 2-1 and 1-0 respectively.
Let’s talk about The Hatch. At least it hasn’t changed names multiple times or closed down, so it’s doing better than most AMS organs in the nest.
To remember the ones who passed, the museum invites you to bring a picture of a deceased loved one to make a collective altar.
From students’ housing insecurity to the university’s loss of talent, the diverse and far-reaching impacts of Vancouver’s expensive housing market on UBC are clear.
Currently, Corrigall-Brown teaches a large introductory class as well as a smaller upper-level class this semester, a division made possible by the flexibility of her teaching style that earned her the Killam Prize.
After a win on Friday afternoon to see them to the semifinals, women's soccer are off to the Canada West Final Four after more success Sunday.
Next month, the AMS will be launching the Rent With Rights campaign, an advocacy and awareness initiative aiming to improve housing rights for UBC renters.
The UBC Vancouver Senate has recently approved a new holistic approach to student admissions that will require applicants to submit the near-entirety of their Grade 11 and 12 marks. It will also require students to submit a number of courses relevant to their program of interest.
The mountain pine beetle is the species plaguing the pine trees of Canada and the United States. These beetles are the bridges connecting human fuelled climate change to the widespread destruction of the western forests of North America.
Protoplanetary disks are the nurseries in which planets are born. You would have to have superhuman traits to throw around these disks, which can weigh hundreds of times the Earth’s mass and have an actively forming star in the middle.
According to Chanpreet Mangat, a fourth-year biology student and club president, there are three main pillars of Women in Science’s approach: mentorship, community and connection.
This year's roster, though young, has a wealth of players ready to step up and pull their weight.
As a student, it can be hard to carve out time to take care of your health, but in the long run you will appreciate it.