International Students - Office of Professional Learning

Current International Students
Visiting and Prospective Students

International Students at the Faculty of Education

The International Student Support Graduate Assistant initiates activities for supporting international students’ academic growth and social adjustment including workshops and social events.

Mark the following dates on your calendar, and be sure to join us at this year’s events!

For further enquiries, contact the ISS Graduate Assistant.

Calendar of Events

Date & Time	Event	Location
Thursday, May 16 3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Conference Presentations	TBA
January & February 2013	Workshop Series on Academic Writing for International StudentsThe Faculty of Education is offering a series of three workshops on academic writing for international students in the coming winter semester. The three workshops are organized as follows: Thursday, January 17 \| 3–5 p.m. Organizing ideas in sentences, paragraphs and texts Thursday, January 31 \| 3–5 p.m. Representing ideas and experiences Thursday, February 14 \| 3–5 p.m. Social positioning of the reader and writer While each workshop focuses on one of these functional areas, the aim of the workshop series is to raise students’ awareness of how writers’ choices in these three functional areas work together in academic texts and contexts. Each workshop combines a brief interactive presentation on the functional area of writing in focus and opportunities for students to analyze, discuss, assess and revise writing. In these processes, students are encouraged to reflect on what they want to achieve in specific written texts, and to negotiate the message given their academic readers’ interests, including expectations related to the task and the relevant academic discipline. Participating students are asked to bring one or more samples of their university writing to the workshops and, if possible, to attend all three workshops. Interested students are asked to reserve a place by January 15, 2012. RSVP to gisseduc@gmail.com Priority will be given to student who commit to attending all 3 events. This year we are fortunate that one of our own PhD candidates in LLED, Alfredo Ferreira will be facilitating this event. Alfredo’s research interests are English for professional academic purposes; degrees of concreteness and abstraction in 2nd language, graduate-level academic writing; systemic functional linguistics and socio-cultural theory; multimodality; and student inquiry in EAP.	Scarfe, Room 308A

Date & Time

Event

Location

Thursday, May 16
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Conference Presentations

TBA

January & February 2013

Workshop Series on Academic Writing for International StudentsThe Faculty of Education is offering a series of three workshops on academic writing for international students in the coming winter semester. The three workshops are organized as follows:

Thursday, January 17 | 3–5 p.m.
Organizing ideas in sentences, paragraphs and texts
Thursday, January 31 | 3–5 p.m.
Representing ideas and experiences
Thursday, February 14 | 3–5 p.m.
Social positioning of the reader and writer

While each workshop focuses on one of these functional areas, the aim of the workshop series is to raise students’ awareness of how writers’ choices in these three functional areas work together in academic texts and contexts.

Each workshop combines a brief interactive presentation on the functional area of writing in focus and opportunities for students to analyze, discuss, assess and revise writing. In these processes, students are encouraged to reflect on what they want to achieve in specific written texts, and to negotiate the message given their academic readers’ interests, including expectations related to the task and the relevant academic discipline.

Participating students are asked to bring one or more samples of their university writing to the workshops and, if possible, to attend all three workshops.

Interested students are asked to reserve a place by January 15, 2012. RSVP to gisseduc@gmail.com

Priority will be given to student who commit to attending all 3 events.

This year we are fortunate that one of our own PhD candidates in LLED, Alfredo Ferreira will be facilitating this event.

Alfredo’s research interests are English for professional academic purposes; degrees of concreteness and abstraction in 2nd language, graduate-level academic writing; systemic functional linguistics and socio-cultural theory; multimodality; and student inquiry in EAP.

Scarfe, Room 308A

Coming to UBC Vancouver

In addition to supporting international students here on campus, the Faculty of Education welcomes international graduate students who have obtained scholarships from their host institutions for study abroad.

This page provides links to other UBC sites where you will find all of the information you need.

Prospective Students

Undergraduate Students

For information on undergraduate programs in Education, please visit the following websites:

Graduate Students

For information on graduate programs in Education, browse through the information in the following departments and school:

Visiting Students

The UBC Faculty of Education welcomes international graduate students who have obtained scholarships from their host institutions for study abroad:

Visiting International Graduate Students – Policies & Procedures

Important Information

All applicants for a graduate program apply to and are admitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Please see Chapter IX of UBC Calendar.
The Faculty of Graduate Studies website provides full information for both prospective and current international students. Information on English language requirements as well as academic requirements for each country and region may be found there.
UBC Student Services online is where students register for courses, pay fees, add and drop courses, obtain transcripts and apply for graduation
Dates and Deadlines and the Academic Year may be found in Chapter I of the Calendar
For full information on program and tuition fees as well as student fees, please go to Chapter III Fees, Financial Assistance and Scholarships
The English language requirements vary according to your program
- For information regarding the English language requirement for the Bachelor of Education (BEd) program, please go to the Teacher Education website
- For the English requirement to graduate programs, please see the table for TOEFL scores in Chapter IX Faculty of Graduate Studies