This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15–18.
Anyone can be an author, publisher and creator today: we post messages, pictures and videos to Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, we create vlogs and videos for TikTok and YouTube, we post to Reddit and Pinterest, we tweet, we document our lives through webcomics, and we like and comment.
Sharpen your critical thinking skills by researching different kinds of digital authorship, and exploring the digital sphere’s creative, professional and personal potential. Practise digital writing by developing content for various social media platforms.
This course is ideal if you’re interested in social media, journalism, creative writing, or marketing and communications.
Dr. ELIZABETH (Biz) NIJDAM, PhD, is a lecturer in the UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies. She is also a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, and is working on her book manuscript Graphic Historiography: East German Memory Discourses in Comics and Graphic Novels. Biz sits on the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum and the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society.
Course Format
This course is held on the UBC Vancouver campus. You attend class in-person 9am–12pm, Monday through Friday. After lunch, you attend university preparation workshops and participate in group activities on campus from 1:30–3pm.
You can also join the Virtual Student Lounge, hosted by our UBC Student Ambassadors. Meet other Future Global Leaders from across Canada and around the world.
To Register
After you add the course to your cart, you’re asked to complete your registration by creating a new account or logging in. If you are a parent, guardian or other adult registering for the first time on behalf of your student, please create the account in the name of the high school student attending UBC Future Global Leaders, not in your name.
To register, click “Open all” under Available Sessions, select the applicable Type under Fees / Tuition. You can pay a CAD$500 now or pay in full. Select “Scheduled Payment” if you wish to pay a CAD$500 deposit now and the balance later. We will automatically process the balance owing on May 13, 2022 for the Residence option and June 10, 2022 for the Commuter option. Do not select Scheduled Payment if you wish to pay in full now.
Click ADD TO CART. Once you have successfully added the items to your shopcart, click COMPLETE REGISTRATION to be directed to our online payment portal.