Pre-university for high school students

Sharpening your skills before you start university can improve your performance, reduce stress, and allow you to accomplish more with your time. The right academic skills can also help you handle the commitments and challenges of university life so you can feel successful - and enjoy life as a first-year student.

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Maximize your chances of getting into the Canadian university of your choice in this dynamic, interactive and personalized course. Over eight self-paced weeks, learn step-by-step how to write memorable and convincing university undergraduate applications for Canadian universities that catch the attention of admissions committees.

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Understand the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) in academic life so that you can help your teen plan ahead for smart, responsible use of AI that enhances, not replaces, their learning.

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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 course takes you on an interactive journey through the world of AI, focusing on ethical usage, global challenges, and innovative applications.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. It is offered by the UBC School of Kinesiology. Are you interested in exploring kinesiology from an academic and career perspective? Then this mini school is definitely for you. It is offered by the UBC School of Kinesiology, ranked first in North America and fourth globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings.

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Explore key episodes in Greek history and famous tales of the gods, popularized in modern books and movies like Percy Jackson and the Olympians, alongside the central discoveries of the Greek philosophers. This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. It is offered by the UBC Department of Psychology. In this mini school, we use theories, interactive discussion, research demonstrations and experiments to understand how social inequalities are created by biases that exist both in individual minds, institutional structures and societal norms.

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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Our world is complex: the social, environmental and economic needs of our planet and people have never been greater. But business cannot afford to take a back seat to these needs. The business winners of the future will be companies that can use sustainability as an opportunity instead of a barrier.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Learn from UBC Theatre and Film faculty about the fundamentals of costume construction.

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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15 -18. Investigate a range of contemporary topics, including the relationship between public order and violent crime, innovations in drug enforcement and forensic psychiatry. Study restorative justice, wrongful conviction, geographic profiling in hunting serial criminals, structural violence, advocacy and the law.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Through a series of hands-on projects, discussions, and presentations, develop your design skills while learning how designers working in sets, costumes, lights and sound respond to a script or project idea and develop a visual and audio language for live or recorded media.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. It is offered by the UBC Department of Geography, one of the top geography departments in the world. This immersive mini school gives you early exposure to university-level spatial data science.

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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.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. In this mini school, we work in teams to discover how experts use different strategies and tools to study marine ecosystems, observe marine life in their natural habitats, and report findings to shape important policies.

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This mini school is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. It is offered by the UBC Department of Geography. Drawing on concepts from physics, hydrology, ecology, geography, and social science, this mini school highlights the interconnected nature of river management.

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