Course:VANT149/Introduction

Introduction to VANT 149

In VANT 149, students build upon the work they have completed in 148.

Key goals of VANT 149

• Provide the opportunity for students to participate in multidisciplinary discussions regarding current theories and issues with their peers both within and outside their selected discipline.
• Provide an opportunity for students to extend their classroom learning by formulating and proposing a guided, collaborative, novice research project.
• Provide opportunity to research and present to their peers as apprentice scholars at the capstone conference.
• Create additional opportunities for students to acquire professional skills, including event planning, networking, leadership and teamwork.
• Create additional opportunities for students to acquire and improve their English for Academic Purposes skills.

Outcomes

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

1. engage, as novice participants, in discipline-specific research work
2. 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.
3. identify central differences and areas of overlap in disciplinary approaches.
4. contribute to discipline-specific and multidisciplinary discussions in a variety of modes (oral, technological, visual, written).
5. identify themselves as apprentice scholars and bring that perspective to their interpersonal interactions within both Vantage College and the broader UBC community.
6. collaborate with peers to organize a multidisciplinary conference
7. present research project to a multidisciplinary audience