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Explore UVic schedule

Are you ready to Explore UVic? We’ve created a fun-filled day of student panels, sample lectures, presentations, tours and more.

Check out the schedule of events, plan ahead and make the most of your visit!

Note: all times listed in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Download the Explore UVic schedule

Download the Explore UVic 2022 schedule to get a head start on your plans. There are two versions available:

  • An accessible PDF for viewing on a computer or mobile device
  • A printer-friendly PDF that uses Letter-sized paper (8.5"x11")

You can also pick up a schedule when you check in at the Bob Wright Centre.

Check-in & information fair

Start your day at the check-in desk and pick up your welcome package.

Check-in

9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Bob Wright Centre

Information fair

11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Bob Wright Centre

UVic has services to support you every step of the way before—and during—your degree. Talk with experts about

  • scholarships and financial aid
  • living in residence
  • getting academic help and advice
  • athletics and recreation
  • student life
  • clubs and course unions
  • and so much more!

Explore UVic presentations

What makes UVic unique? What could your UVic experience look like? Is UVic right for you? These presentations will give you the big picture perspective of living and learning at our beautiful Vancouver Island campus. There will be presentations for high school applicants and recent graduates, and separate presentations for students considering transferring to UVic from another post-secondary institution. Parents and families welcome!

Presentations are held in the Bob Wright Centre, Room B150.

High school students and recent grads

  • 10:15 - 11 a.m.
  • 12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
  • 2 - 2:45 p.m.
  • 4:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Transfer students

  • 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
  • 3:15 - 4 p.m.

Student experience panel

Meet current UVic students, learn about their experiences and ask them about life at UVic.

Student experience panels take place in Bob Wright Centre, Room A104.

  • 10:15 - 11 a.m.
  • 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
  • 12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
  • 2 - 2:45 p.m.
  • 3:15 - 4 p.m.
  • 4:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Lectures

10:30 - 11:15 a.m.

Elliott Building, Room 167

Dr. Rachel Brown | Department of Religion, Culture and Society, Faculty of Humanities

Food plays an important role in forming and maintaining our identities. When religious migrants move to new homes in secular places, identity processes become even more important.

In this lecture, learn how religious migrants use food to maintain their identities in their new homes.

11 - 11:45 a.m.

Elliott Building, Room 168

Dr. Scott McIndoe | Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Chemistry is the science of matter, and it requires us to understand what is going on at the atomic level. Some pretty strange things, as it turns out!

Come learn how we help first-year students grapple with quantum concepts, using models, demonstrations, augmented reality, and more.

11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 167

Lauren Jerke | Department of Theatre, Faculty of Fine Arts

Teachers use a variety of techniques to help students of all abilities think through issues that are important to them.

In this workshop, you’ll explore how Indigenous education can help to cultivate understanding in the classroom.

12:15 - 1:00 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 168

Christopher Bone | Department of Geography

Forest fires, floods, earthquakes and other natural events can cause humanitarian crises. We can help our fellow citizens around the world by creating and mapping data on our mobile devices and laptops.

Our everyday technologies empower us to do good when others are in need. How will you rise to this challenge?

1 - 1:45 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 167

Dr. Mark Colgate|Director, Corporate MBA Programs, Gustavson School of Business

Are you hoping to one day be part of a leading cutting-edge organization? Do you volunteer time in your community, and want to know how to be an effective change maker?

Award-winning professor Mark Colgate presents an overview of what makes an organization successful in the long term, and the surprising truths about the leaders that run these organizations.

1:30 - 2:15 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 168

Dr. Anthony Estay|Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Ever wonder how the apps work that we use every day on our smart devices? Want to build one yourself? Explore how an application like Google Maps might determine the best route to a destination. In doing so, you will get a glimpse into one of the topics covered in CSC 225: Algorithms and Data Structures: I, a core course in the Computer Science program.

2:15 - 3 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 167

Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Kovacs|Department of Theatre, Faculty of Fine Arts

The word “performative” is everywhere across social media. People add “performative” in hashtags to denounce those who don’t, as Hamlet advised his players, “suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” Performance has always gotten a bad rap. People criticize performance as hollow, ineffective, lazy and false.

But does this account for performance’s power to activate and incite real-world change? Through historic and contemporary examples, we’ll reconsider the power of performance as an agent of positive change.

2:45 - 3:30 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 168

Dr. Helen Monkman | Department of Health Information Science

What is Health Information Science? What are some of the current challenges, trends and technologies in digital health? Have you ever wondered how to pursue a career in this field? Learn how this program prepares you for a variety of well-paid and meaningful careers in the digital health sector!

3:30 - 4:15 p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 167

Dr. Devika Chithrani|Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science

We’ve all heard the story about the young Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree contemplating the mysterious universe. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground? Newton formulated three laws that could explain what is happening around us. We call them “Newton’s laws of motion.” They are fundamental to our understanding of physics.

4:00 - 4:45 p.m. p.m.

Elliott Building, Room 168

Dr. Audrey Yap | Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities

We get a lot of stories about what prison and the people in it are like—from movies, TV shows, and true crime podcasts (just to name a few).

But what happens when we stop treating people in prisons as plot points and instead consider them as human beings with their own complicated inner lives, just like anyone else? We’ll talk about how this played out in a Humanities course held in a BC jail.

Faculty tours and events

Fair

David Strong Building, room C118

  • 10:30 - 11:30
  • 2:00 - 3:00

Kinesiology fair

McKinnon Building

  • 10:00 - 5:00

Kinesiology tours

McKinnon Building

  • 11:30 - 12:00
  • 1:30 - 2:00

Education fair

MacLaurin Building

  • 11:00 - 3:00

Education tours

Maclaurin Building

  • 11:30 - 12:00
  • 1:30 - 2:00

Fair

Engineering Lab Wing

  • 11:00 - 4:00

Tours

Engineering Lab Wing

  • 11:00 - 12:00
  • 12:30 - 1:30
  • 2:00 - 3:00
  • 3:30 - 4:30

Info table

Fine Arts Building

  • 11:00 - 12:00
  • 2:00 - 3:00 

Fair

Fine Arts Building

  • 12:00 - 2:00

Art History and Visual Studies tours

Fine Arts building lobby

  • 11:00
  • 12:00
  • 1:00
  • 2:00
  • 3:00

Writing

Fine Arts Building lobby

  • Any time between 11:00 and 3:00

Music

MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, upstairs lobby

  • 11:00
  • 12:30
  • 2:00
  • 3:30

Theatre

Phoenix Building lobby

  • 11:00
  • 11:45
  • 12:30

Visual Arts

Lobby of Visual Arts Building (adjacent to the Fine Arts Building)

  • 11:00
  • 12:00
  • 1:00
  • 2:00

Spring Awakening (live performance)

Phoenix Theatre

  • 2:00 - 4:00 

A rock musical about the challenges facing high-school students in 1891 Germany.

Spring Awakening rocked the theatre world when it opened to critical acclaim on Broadway in 2006, winning 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. Based on an 1891 German play by Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening forever changed the definition of what a musical could be, breaking boundaries by exploring the journey from adolescence to adulthood with poignancy and passion. With musical numbers that are full of literary allusions, poetic depth, anger and emotion, Spring Awakening is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock 'n' roll! This is an ideal opportunity to see what the Theatre department does.

Fair

Clearihue Building, room A127

  • 10:00 - 3:00

Tours

Clearihue Building, room A127

  • 11:00 - 12:00
  • 12:30 - 1:30
  • 2:00 - 3:00
  • 3:30 - 4:30

Info table

Clearihue Building, room A127

  • 3:00 - 5:00

 

Fair

Elliott Building lobby

  • 10:00 - 5:00

Lab tours

Elliott Building lobby

  • 11:00 - 12:00
  • 12:30 - 1:30
  • 2:00 - 3:00
  • 3:30 - 4:30

Telescope tours

Bob Wright Centre

  • 1:30 - 2:00
  • 3:00 - 3:30
  • 4:30 - 5:00

Biology tour

Elliott Building lobby

  • 11:00 - 12:00
  • 12:30 - 1:30

Earth and Ocean Sciences tour

Elliott Building lobby

  • 11:00 - 12:00
  • 12:30 - 1:30

Biochemistry and Microbiology tour

Elliott Building lobby

  • 2:00 - 3:00
  • 3:30 - 4:30

Chemistry tour

Elliott Building lobby

  • 2:00 - 3:00
  • 3:30 - 4:30

Fair

David Strong Building

  • 11:00 - 3:00

Fair

Human and Social Development Building, 2nd floor foyer

  • 10:00 - 3:00

Tours

Tours of our First Peoples House are open to everyone.

First Peoples House

  • 12:30 - 1:00 
  • 2:30 - 3:00 

Campus tours

The best way to experience campus is to take a walking tour with a current student as your guide. You’ll get a feel for the campus—its beauty, its size, its architecture, and see some of our favourite spots, including faculty buildings, athletics facilities and dining locations.

Tours are led by UVic students who love to share their personal experiences with visitors. See where you’ll study, live, have fun—you may even meet a deer or two! 

Make sure you include a campus tour during your visit to UVic.

All campus tours start at the Petch Fountain in front of the McPherson Library.

  • 10 - 11:15 a.m.
  • 10:45 a.m. - noon
  • 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
  • 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
  • 1 - 2:15 p.m.
  • 1:45 - 3 p.m.
  • 2:30 - 3:45 p.m.
  • 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
  • 3:45 - 5:15 p.m.