The Students as Partners (SaP) Course Design Grants have funded many student-faculty partnership projects to date, since inception in 2022.
Science
This project aims to improve student experience and learning with better knowledge on how Indigenous communities and paleontology are connected, learn about ethical field and specimen management principles and practices, appropriately reference specimens in reports and lab activities, and answer questions about molecular paleontology.
Arts
This project proposes a curriculum redesign that diversifies the course materials and the ways learning is assessed, aiming to create a welcoming environment that generates respectful engagement with the content and the community.
Land and Food Systems
The goal of this project is for students, staff, and faculty to work in partnership to redesign the asynchronous section of FNH 250 to enhance student engagement with course materials and to increase opportunities for student-instructor and student-student interactions.
Arts
Our goal is to develop a course that acknowledges and accounts for the diverse experiences and interests of students who will soon enroll and participate in it.
Arts
The goals of this project are to update the course material, enhance student experience and increase student engagement. These goals align with the strategies of Inclusive Excellence, Student Research and Program Redesign as outlined in UBC’s current Strategic Plan.
Arts
Project members will work collaboratively to create new curriculum and adjust pedagogical approaches to center experiential and place-based learning, drawing advantage from the opportunity for embodied, context-rich student engagement with important artworks and sites of nineteenth-century French visual culture.
Land and Food Systems
This project will improved student well-being and satisfaction, enhanced program cohesion, and greater student readiness.
Science
The goals of this project are to continue to use some form of self-assessment in the course but with significant revision based on preliminary data, student feedback and the need for better alignment with assessment.
Applied Science
Our objective is to bring student voices in the redesign of this fundamental core course with the aim of enriching the learning experience in essential concepts for aspiring bioengineers. We intend to achieve this by broadly incorporating students input into the four phases of the course re-design process (Conceptualization, Implementation, Evaluation and Dissemination), while promoting student-centered learning approaches.
Sauder School of Business
The COMM 386T redesign aims to deepen understanding of Indigenous economic perspectives, fostering respectful engagement with Indigenous communities for reconciliation in the private sector.
Arts
This project aims to create a more inclusive, equitable, and accessible learning environment for all SANS 300 students by reflecting formally on how the partnership approach informs our project.
Medicine
This project seeks to redesign this course to be more student-focused by increasing opportunities in which students can demonstrate mastery of the material.
Arts
The aim of this project is to spark interest in Slavic Studies. Since the course was dormant for many years, we want to offer it again, in a redesigned format, focusing on content, accessibility and engagement with broader Slavic communities.
Forestry
This project aims to develop, implement, and refine changes to the course that provide a more accessible and inclusive field learning experience for future CONS 451 cohorts.
Arts
The goal of this project is to redesign GEOG 495: Social Movements in the Americas to improve students’ experience of community service learning, a pedagogical model I use to examine North-South solidarity in theory and practice.
Applied Sciences
This course redesign will enhance student learning in MTRL 251 by involving students in the refinement of course content; in the development of AI-enabled interactive objects to help explain abstract concepts; and in the development of a question bank.
Arts
Our project is based on the partnership of the instructor and two former students in the course as we apply our respective learning-, disciplinary-, and cultural expertise to help refine the course, empower future student-driven learning, and foster diversity and inclusivity.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The goal of this project is to make the changes to the Respirology Module curriculum, to ensure that graduates of the E2P PharmD program will be well equipped to make positive changes towards an environmentally sustainable healthcare system while still providing optimal care to their patients.
Arts
This project includes revision of course topics to integrate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), scaffolding assessment tasks, and incorporating diverse voices.
Arts
Our partnership will give Indigenous students a pivotal role in creating the new curricula of ASTU 100 and 101. We want these new courses not only to align with Workday, but also meet the ISP goal of Indigenizing these courses’ curriculum, and further align ASTU 100/101 with the goals of the new “Place and Power” breadth requirement in the Faculty of Arts.
Arts
This project aims to redesign two course components (course material and assignments) to create more opportunities for embodied knowledge.
Dentistry
The objectives of this project is to engage undergraduate students in revising some of the existing PBL/DALE cases from the FMS I and II course to ensure representation of patients, health care providers and case outcomes.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The goal of this project is to focus on “collaborative leadership,” redesign the IPC project activities to better align with the six competency domains in CIHC, and create assessment rubrics for all activities.
Dentistry
This project’s goal is to redesign learning material to apply active learning modules such as through immersive interactive technology, case studies and simulation-based activities.
Applied Science
This project seeks to balance our program’s need to meet certain accreditation requirements, with a need to make the Inclusive Design Project more approachable and impactful for students.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
This project aims to support students by reinforcing concepts through innovative educational opportunities that also promote engagement and enjoyment.
Science
The course redesign aims to increase students’ understanding of physical concepts and sharpen problem-solving skills; increase participation; and to apply students’ skills to current issues and to pursue career opportunities in a STEM field.
Arts
This project offers a suitable framework to redesign course offerings, focusing on the cultural texts (including literature and film) that form the basis of our work.
Science
This project helps to create video materials that will present a diverse range of students, showing their expertise in solving difficult questions, and demonstrating that being tenacious pays off.
Science
This project hopes to see the course become more equitable across this wide range of previous coding experience—with respect to workload and opportunities for success in the course—while also being highly engaging to learners across this diversity of previous experience.
Arts
The goal of this project is to recast the purpose of studio art critiques through continuous community-building exercises, develop relationships and honour the labour of collegiality and knowledge both inside and outside of class time.
Forestry
The goal of this project is to implement changes in the FRST 304 course, by performing a critical review of existing learning outcomes and activating outcomes in Canvas.
Science
The goal of this project is to create a curriculum proposal to present to the Faculty of Science Curriculum Committee, and incorporate the course into the Integrated Sciences specialization requirements.
Arts
The goal of this project is to retain the various online streaming options for the GERM 304 course, while affording students an opportunity to experience and reflect upon communal viewing.
Arts
The goal of this project is to allow non-linguistics students to achieve a better learning experience with easier comprehension of linguistic concepts.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The goal of this project is to improve mental health scaffolding in the PharmD program and use an academic version of EHR systems as the teaching medium to simulate longitudinal care.
Forestry
The goal of this project is to identify and ameliorate barriers to success indentified by student course evaluations, such as lacking practical application and unclear scope and scale.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The goal of this student-led project is to improve the teaching and learning of complex pharmacotherapy topics in neurology by developing resources and assessments that appeal to a diverse pharmacy student audience.
Arts
The goal of this project is to address students’ engagement and expertise to create a module that suits best their interests.
Forestry
The goal of this project is to address two areas that create barriers to success: online content connection to class activities and field exercises, and gaps in the laddering of field skills.
Education
The goal of this project is to design a new online ECED 480 course with a focus on how the course’s pedagogical intentions are reflected in its content and design while leaning on students’ experience in taking ECED online courses.
Applied Science
The goal of this project is to use the CIVL 201 course to design resources that empower students to create effective group cultures, practices and ecosystems when engaging in collaborative projects.
Arts
The goal of this project is to design the SOCI 200 course in a more equitable, diverse and inclusive way for the hundreds of students taking the course each year.
Science
The goal of this project is to improve many aspects of the ASTR 200 course, from academic integrity to enhancing student-centered active learning.
Arts
The goal of this project is to redesign the MES 300 course by collaborating with former students to analyze findings and using them to enhance interventions by making them more sensitive, impactful, and constructive for future students.
Science
The goal of this project is to enhance students’ biological literacy and ability to appraise biology-related news items critically and improve equitability in assessments.
Arts
The goal of this project is to identify ways to better integrate international students into UBC’s learning community by re-designing student assessment and interaction in the CHIN 483 002 course.
Applied Science
The goal of this project is to evaluate approaches to integrate discussions about the lack of diversity into the course curriculum, and to develop resources that integrate and implement diversity in an effective way.
Arts
The goal of this project is to create a partnership with students to embed experiential learning in the redesign and development of the SOCI 415 course.
Pharmaceutical Sciences
The goal of this project is to re-design the PHRM 481 course in partnership with students to critically review and update course content as well as scrutinize and renew instructional assessment configurations.
Forestry
The goal of this student-led project is to develop new Geographic Information Systems lab topics for teaching them in the Faculty of Forestry.
Land and Food Systems
The goal of this project is to critically review the learning objectives of the FNH 473 course from a student’s lens, to identify what is working well, which areas could be strengthened, and to define appropriate assessment tools.