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  • Courses
    • Hum101
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
    • Hum201
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
    • Writing101
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
    • Writing201
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
  • Public Programmes
    • Programme Calendar of Events
    • Haraway Talks: Reading and Figuring Worlds
    • How to fall in love with artful sentences
    • Zinemaking: Speculative Matters
    • Tuesday Women’s Writing Workshop (women only group)
    • Documentaries for Thinkers
    • A Taste of the Middle East
    • Out’n About: Monthly Field Trip Series
    • Past Community Reading and Writing Groups
      • Doing Science and Technology
      • Popular Music through the Decades
      • Elevenses: Eating and Reading Tolkien
  • About Us
    • COVID-19 and Hum’s response
    • Hum Manifesto
    • History
    • Publications
    • Faculty
    • Staff
    • Supporters
    • Donate to Humanities 101
    • Media Coverage
    • Contact Us
  • Students
    • Students
    • Current Students
    • Alumni
    • Steering Committee
  • Teachers
    • Teachers
    • Past Teachers
  • Volunteers
  • Community
    • Community Links
    • Donate to the Downtown Eastside, Downtown South or East Vancouver
    • COVID-19 Resources
  • How to apply
  • COVID-19 and Hum’s response

    COVID-19 and Hum’s response: In response to physical distancing protocols, Hum is now offering courses and providing support remotely... Read more. Read More

  • Public Programmes

    Public Programmes are open to the general public and are a great way for people to get involved in Hum. For alumni, these groups provide a platform to continue on with their shared intellectual and creative practices. Read More

  • Writing 101/201

    In Writing101 and Writing201 a new genre of writing is studied with a different teacher each week, including short stories, creative non-fiction, poetry, academic essays, song lyrics, memoirs, journaling, manifestos, new media and more. Read More

  • Hum 101/201

    Want to learn more about History and Politics, First Nations Studies, Philosophy, Art, Architecture, Music, Literature, Sociology, Economics, Critical and Creative thinking, Popular culture and more? Find out more about Hum101 and Hum201. Read More

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For 21 years, Hum has been part of communities in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Downtown South, and the University of British Columbia, on the unceded, ancestral, traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

Do you live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Downtown South or somewhere nearby?

Would you like to learn more about Writing, First Nations Studies, Philosophy, Music, Art, Sociology, Popular Culture, Literature, History, Politics, Women and Gender Studies, Law, Architecture and more?

The Humanities 101 Community Programme (fondly known as “Hum”) offers four non-credit, university-level courses at UBC for people living in the Downtown Eastside, Downtown South (DTES/South) and surrounding areas who have a lust for learning—especially those whose economic situation, academic experience, financial and social well-being are compromised. Courses are tuition free, and all participants receive course materials, meal vouchers and childcare (if required), as well as student cards which give access to UBC facilities and services.

In Hum courses we study a different area each week, taught by excellent teachers in a respectful environment. They are grounded in relevant, interdisciplinary critical and creative thinking in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Hum’s Public Programmes are offered year round. These groups are open to the general public and are a great way for people to get involved in Hum. For Hum alumni, these groups provide a platform to continue on with their shared intellectual and creative practices. They typically begin with ideas generated by participants of the Hum Programme and continue to be shaped largely by those who attend. Public Programmes are a way to have fun, remain involved and connected, and learn something along the way.

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  • Courses
    • Hum101
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
    • Hum201
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
    • Writing101
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
    • Writing201
      • Sample Syllabus (19/20)
  • Public Programmes
    • Programme Calendar of Events
    • Haraway Talks: Reading and Figuring Worlds
    • How to fall in love with artful sentences
    • Zinemaking: Speculative Matters
    • Tuesday Women’s Writing Workshop (women only group)
    • Documentaries for Thinkers
    • A Taste of the Middle East
    • Out’n About: Monthly Field Trip Series
    • Past Community Reading and Writing Groups
      • Doing Science and Technology
      • Popular Music through the Decades
      • Elevenses: Eating and Reading Tolkien
  • About Us
    • COVID-19 and Hum’s response
    • Hum Manifesto
    • History
    • Publications
    • Faculty
    • Staff
    • Supporters
    • Donate to Humanities 101
    • Media Coverage
    • Contact Us
  • Students
    • Students
    • Current Students
    • Alumni
    • Steering Committee
  • Teachers
    • Teachers
    • Past Teachers
  • Volunteers
  • Community
    • Community Links
    • Donate to the Downtown Eastside, Downtown South or East Vancouver
    • COVID-19 Resources
Hum (Humanities 101 Community Programme)
Vancouver Campus
Room 270, Buchanan E
1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
Tel 604 822 0028
Fax 604 822 0950
Email h.u.m@ubc.ca
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