Check out these new courses lined up for Winter 2025! These courses do not require any prerequisites and are open to all students across UBC.
Culture, Colonialism and the Making of Heritage (ANTH_V 202G)
2025 Winter Term 1
Instructor: Dr. Lennon Mhishi
This course is an exploration of the intersection of the histories of colonialism, museum practices and the construction of heritage in the present. In working to move away from extractive and oppressive legacies, how have museums confronted the multiple modes of coloniality?
The Anthropology of Energy and Sustainability (ANTH_V 362)
2025 Winter Term 1
Instructor: Dr. Tracey Heatherington
This course explores the human dimensions of energy resource extraction, production and consumption, through the lens of ethnographic case studies from different parts of the world. We consider critical debates around energy systems and sustainability from the perspective of political ecology and climate justice, giving particular attention to the cultural and historical contexts of evolving energy frontiers.
Anthropology of Memoir, Life History and Family (ANTH_V 495D)
2025 Winter Term 1
Instructor: Dr. Charles Menzies
This course explores the intersection of memoir and anthropological writing through a First Nation’s lens. We will use First Nations’ approaches that centre relations and place to assess anthropological fieldwork memoirs, life histories of the studied, autoethnographic modes of writing, and anthropologists’ memories of their own families. Students will practice writing memoir through a careful reading of First Nations and anthropological works.
