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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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 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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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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This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders on-campus program for high school students ages 15–18. Learn how to interpret, contextualize, and critically evaluate popular media, its representations, claims, and narratives.

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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.

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