
Arts University Studies

What does it mean to study Arts? It means to study the world – to understand critical issues facing the world yesterday and today: the environment, politics, race, class, poverty, gender and inequality. The world is your classroom, and what you learn matters. To study Arts is to think and feel, to know and change, to understand and take action.
Learn about Okanagan College's newest undergraduate degree: the Applied Bachelor of Arts: Community Research and Evaluation, and how you could study social sciences and liberal arts through applied learning in our region, including a field experience and a significant capstone research project.
What is community? Professor Olivia Sullivan offers a definition that enables acts of solidarity and connection.
Psychology Professor Stephanie Griffiths describes how research encourages us to think differently.
Sociology Professor Priscillia Lefebvre describes what is involved with an inclusive evaluation process.
Our university studies programs and courses are as diverse as our students. Whatever kind of student you are, wherever you plan to go, we can help you get there. We offer eight certificate, diploma, and associate degree programs made up from over 200 different courses from 16 subject areas. And every credit you earn at OC is fully transferrable to universities across B.C. and beyond.
Anthropology asks the question: what makes us human? Study human culture in all its diversity and similarity, look at the world in new ways and question ethnocentric assumptions that guide thinking and perceptions.
Learn how meaning is made in a range of contexts, including advertising, television, film, music, social media and the internet. Understand how our perception is influenced by these cultural forms.
Do you think about serious issues like child labour, homelessness, free trade, global poverty? These concerns are at the heart of the study of Economics. Learn what it might take to solve these problems.
Immerse yourself in the study of language and literature; from the classics to contemporary work. Understand how words work in our lives and shape our view of the world and our place in it.
Explore your world and your role in making it a better place, by integrating study in both the natural and social sciences. Develop innovative approaches to the climate crisis and to living sustainably on Earth.
Is it true that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it? History involves studying critical events and issues of the past in an effort to better understand their impact on the present.
Explore significant social issues through research and critical methodologies from several disciplines like Criminology, Indigenous Studies, Social Work, as well as Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
Develop linguistic understanding and competence in a range of languages, and explore the literature, history and cultures of countries where the languages are spoken.
Philosophy asks students to engage with challenging questions and develop the critical thinking and reasoning skills to understand the complexities of modern life.
Issues like civil rights, war, peace, poverty, justice, globalization and equality are part of the theory and practice of politics. Understand the world from a variety of political perspectives.
Examining human behaviour and mental processes helps us appreciate why we feel what we feel, think what we think, and even why we dream at night.
Study in Sociology allows us to understand how human behaviour is influenced by the social and cultural groups to which we belong and the society in which we live.
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