Course:VANT148/Introduction

Introduction to VANT 148

In VANT148, you will have an opportunity to extend and enrich what you are learning in your other UBC Vantage College courses, and to engage in multidisciplinary ways of knowing.

One major goal of this course is to prepare you for VANT 149, your capstone-project course. To that end, in this course you will work closely with one faculty member and you will continue to work with that mentor during VANT 149

Key goals of VANT148

• Provide students with opportunities to extend and enrich discipline specific classroom learning.
• Assist students with transitioning to University and undertaking apprentice scholarship.
• Provide students with the opportunity to engage in multidisciplinary ways of knowing.
• Provide students with an opportunity to apply course concepts through project-based learning, including the creation of learning artifacts for both peers and the wider UBC community.
• Provide students with additional opportunities for acquiring and improving English for Academic Purposes.
• Provides students with the opportunity to work with faculty mentor.
• Motivate and inspire students to pursue courses of their interest in 2nd year.

Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

1. understand key disciplinary differences, particularly methodological differences;
2. use library retrieval methods to obtain and filter information for a relevant research context;
3. define, discuss, argue for and apply the elements of discipline-specific thinking when communicating with a specialist or non-specialist, in context of both the learner’s life and within broader society;
4. describe current research (and related issues, concerns, debates) using disciplinary frameworks and extract the main results or conclusions from a published paper or journal article;
5. take on a variety of roles in formal and informal situations, including being able to work in teams or independently while developing the skills necessary to be an independent learner and to foster individual agency when performing course work; and
6. contribute to broader discipline-specific discussions in a variety of modes (oral, technological, visual, written).