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Academic Skills for University Success
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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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Student Well-Being, Mental Health and Resiliency
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This is a condensed version of a popular full-semester credit course offered at Queen's University. It was developed by Dr. Anne Duffy, MSc, MD, FRCPC, an academic psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Student Mental Health at Queen’s University as a resource to help high school students preparare for university life.
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Writing Effective University Applications
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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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Abnormal 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. Learn about the intricacies of mental illness, examining its causes, symptoms, and treatment from biological, psychological, and social perspectives.
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AI in Action: Ethics, Innovation and Application
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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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Ancient Greece: A Key to the Modern World
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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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Business and Social Impact
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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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Business and Social Impact
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders Online program for high school students ages 15 -18. Using real companies as examples, understand the foundations of businesses that have true social impact. Work in teams to build a model business, gaining knowledge of strategy, marketing and operations along the way.
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Centre for Digital Media Mini School
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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Located at Centre for Digital Media (CDM), the Digital Media Mini School is modelled on CDM's prestigious Master of Digital Media program, Canada's first graduate program in digital media.
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Crime and Society: Contemporary Topics
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Investigate a range of contemporary topics in crime, including the relationship between public order and violent crime, innovations in drug enforcement, forensic psychiatry, restorative justice, wrongful conviction, geographic profiling in hunting serial criminals, structural violence, advocacy and the law. This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders Online program for high school students ages 15 -18.
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Crime and Society: Contemporary Topics
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.