Digital Media and Entrepreneurship
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Learn how to identify the needs of your target audience, brainstorm and build your own digital media prototypes, and discover how to pitch and launch your new digital product or service using proven digital marketing strategies and techniques.
Entertainment Management
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore the dynamic world of entertainment management and the fascinating processes behind the creation of TV shows, movies, and video games.
Forensic Anthropology: Identifying the Dead
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Forensic anthropology is the process by which individuals, recently deceased and long-dead, are identified. Learn how to identify the sex and age of a skeleton, and how to calculate height and body weight from skeletal elements.
Getting Dressed: The Sociology of Adornment
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. In this course we discuss the research, theories, and have lively debates about what we wear, why we wear it, why we keep things, and why it matters.
How to Make Good Arguments and Avoid Bad Ones
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. In this course we offer an overview of the history and theory of arguments, with many concrete examples of good and bad arguments.
International Criminal Law
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore the origins of modern international criminal law, with a particular focus on "genocide" and "crimes against humanity", and their impact on current directions in law, policy and culture.
International Finance and Global Politics
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore the political foundations of international finance. Understand the roles politics and financial markets play in determining exchange rate regimes, causing financial crises, governing terrorist financing and promoting green finance.
Introduction to Business Foundations
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Get a broad understanding of business by exploring important core functions: finance, accounting, marketing, human resources management and strategic decision-making.
Introduction to Cinematography
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. This comprehensive yet entertaining introduction to the art of cinematography delves into the fundamentals of camera functionality, explores the essence of cinematography, and unravels the intricacies of visual storytelling.
Introduction to Engineering
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Learn about the profession of engineering, and the disciplines of chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental and mechanical engineering. Prepare for success by practising and developing key skills in technical problem solving and engineering design, ethical decision-making, teamwork and communicating to diverse audiences.
Introduction to Psychology
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Psychology has many sub-disciplines, including behavioural, clinical, cognitive, developmental, health, sports, organizational, social and personality psychology. Not only is it one of the fastest-growing professions, it's also among the most popular undergraduate majors at UBC and other universities.
Introduction to the Global Political Economy
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Explore key themes of the global economy, including the role of multinational corporations, global trade, international finance and international development. Analyze the underlying issues and competing ideologies that shape the global political economy, and understand tensions that arise due to government efforts to enhance or resist market pressures.
Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Topics
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders Online program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore a range of contemporary topics in medical anthropology including medical regulation, genetics, cancer, addiction, medical ethics, mental health and the law. Come face-to-face with the humanity of medicine by studying the experience of illness. Understand the busy and complex intersection of health professionals, patients and families as they face Nature's ultimate democracy: the equalizing force of illness and death.
Neuroanatomy: The Human Brain
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore the wonders of the human brain, guided by a dedicated neurosurgeon.
Relationship Science: Understanding Close Relationships
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. In this course, look at how the science of relationships can help us analyze and understand our close relationships, how these relationships begin, grow and decline, and how they change over the span of our lives.