Mixing up your education
Call for Mix Proposals R...
UBC Mix is accepting proposals for Term 2 Mix partnerships and Mix activities. Up to $500 start-up funding, consultation, planning support, and Mix matchmaking services are available for new Mixes and ReMixes. Deadline: February 1, 2012 Email Mix proposals and questions to: ubc-mix@interchange.ubc.ca Please include the following information in your 1-page Mix...
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UBC Mix Community Portal
UBC Mix is pleased to announce the launch of the UBC Mix Community Portal on the UBC Wiki. At our UBC Mixer event in April, attendees suggested some ways to improve the communication side of the program. The general consensus: UBC Mix needed “technology for people to throw out ideas and look for people.” At that event, the UBC Wiki was put forward as a possible...
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A different kind of teacher...
It’s not every day that university students get to learn about poverty, inequality, and the role technology can play in society from a homeless man. But Danse Crowkiller, who has lived over half of his days and nights homeless, seemed like a perfect guest speaker to Catherine Douglas, who teaches an economics class on poverty and inequality. “I found him very...
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Sustainable Mixes Beneath t...
A UBC Reads Sustainability last spring highlights the potential for deep interdisciplinary mixing on campus. UBC Reads Sustainability events bring in different authors well-versed in issues of sustainability. Students and professors from across disciplines then get the opportunity to participate in a common conversation. On February 3rd, 2011, author David R. Montgomery...
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Statistics and Zoology Part...
Agnes Lacombe’s biology students generate new data every single semester. That was good news for John Petkau’s statistics students looking for real-world data to challenge their hard-learned skills. This pairing offered all the students an opportunity to work with upcoming experts in their field and to produce professional quality results. What’s really...
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Arts One and Science One Mi...
Arts One and Science One may seem like a conventional pair. Both programs inhabit the 3rd floor of Irving K. Barber, both are composed of incoming freshmen students, and both programs focus on interdisciplinarity. They’ve got a lot in common, except for spending time together. UBC Mix decided to change that. When UBC Mix first approached Christina Hendricks, the...
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ASIC 200: Global Issues in ...
[The following is a reprint of an article from the UBC Sustainability website. ASIC 200 is taught in part by Allen Sens, one of our UBC Mix supervisors. The course embodies all the values we look for in a good Mix project!] Although the arts and the sciences may seem like completely different worlds, one course at UBC is bringing them together and crossing faculty...
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UBC Mix Introduction
UBC Mix is a new initiative on campus to help partner instructors, students and courses together to create an interdisciplinary atmosphere for better learning and understanding.
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How we can help
At UBC Mix, we have the resources to help you achieve your interdisciplinary mix project.
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Resources For Instructors
We are happy to announce that the UBC Mix Community Portal is open for business! You can browse profiles for potential matches, create your own, check out examples of previous Mixes, access relevant scholarship and case studies, and most importantly add and edit content!