Faculty of Humanities Summer Courses Available Online
Despite the upheaval and uncertainty that we’ve all faced in recent weeks, the Faculty of Humanities is committed to moving as many summer courses online as possible, ensuring that our students can progress through their degree safely from home.
Click here to read an announcement from Vice-President Academic and Provost Valerie Kuehne regarding remote instruction at the Universty of Victoria.
Below is a list of all confirmed summer courses currently offered by all Humanities programs, departments and centres, for your reference. Please bookmark this page, as it will be updated regularly as courses are added in the coming weeks.
For more information about each course please consult the academic calendar or contact the course’s home department. You can also email us with general inquiries.
English | ||
ENGL135 | Academic Reading and Writing | Eric Henderson |
ENGL135 | Academic Reading and Writing | Michael Lukas |
ENGL135 | Academic Reading and Writing | Sara Humphreys |
ENGL135 | Academic Reading and Writing | Tim Personn |
ENGL135 | Academic Reading and Writing *please note that this section is reserved for students in UVic's Pathways program only* | Randy Lawrence |
ENGL146 | Contemporary Literature | Andrew Murray |
ENGL146 | Contemporary Literature | Brian Day |
ENGL200B | English Literature 1660 - 1800 | Harb Sanghara |
ENGL225 | Technical Communications | Joel Hawkes |
ENGL366C | Shakespeare: Comedies, Problem Plays & Romances | Kim McLean-Fiander |
ENGL436B | 20th Century British Fiction After WWII | Joel Hawkes |
ENGL503 | Special Studies: Loving Literature | Misao Dean |
Engineering | ||
ENGR240 | Technical Writing | Monika Smith |
ENGR240 | Technical Writing | Michael Lukas |
ENGR297 | Technology and Society | Alena Kottova |
French | ||
FRAN100 | Intensive French I | Annye Castonguay |
FRAN325A | Le Tour de France (taught in English) | Emile Fromet de Rosnay |
Gender Studies | ||
GNDR100 | Gender, Power and Difference | Georgia Sitara |
GNDR100 | Gender, Power and Difference | Mercedes Dorrercker |
GNDR219 | Special Topics: Young Adult Literature, Politics and Culture | Janni Aragon |
Germanic Studies | ||
GMST454 | A Cultural History of Vampires | Peter Golz |
GMST450/551 | Major German Filmmakers: The Li[v]es and Legends of Leni Riefenstahl | Matt Pollard |
Hispanic & Italian Studies | ||
SPAN100B | Beginners' Spanish II | Pablo Restrepo Gautier |
SPAN149 | Intensive Beginner's Spanish | Alicia Ulysses |
SPAN185 | Hispanic Culture Through Film (taught in English) | Chrissie Forster |
SPAN305A | Latin American Cities: Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City (taught in English) | Dan Russek |
SPAN307 | Latin American Culture through Music (taught in English) | Chrissie Forster |
History | ||
HISTR110 | Conquest and Encounter in the Atlantic World, 1492-1700 | Mitch Lewis Hammond |
HSTR300C | Gaming and the Historical Imagination | David Dolff |
HSTR310D | American History in Film: "The American West" | Norm Fennema |
HSTR371 | 20th Century Warfare | David Dolff |
HSTR385A | Witchcraft and its Persecution in the Early Modern Atlantic World | Matthew Koch |
HSTR385C | History of Sexuality | Georgia Sitara |
HSTR430 | Seminar in Canadian History: "Canada's Internment Era" | Jordan Stanger-Ross |
Medieval Studies | ||
MEDI330 | Victorian Medievalism | Michael Reed |
Pacific and Asian Studies | ||
PAAS138 | Intensive Beginner Japanese I | Hiroko Noro |
PAAS410 | Advanced Mandarin for Native Speakers of Chinese: "Studies of Modern Chinese" | Jun Tian |
PAAS457 | Authors in Classical Chinese Literature | Lianbin Dai |
Philosophy | ||
PHIL201 | Critical Thinking | Alena Kottova |
PHIL232 | Moral Problems of Contemporary Society | Karen Brown |