39 Humanities courses any UVic undergrad can take
July 23, 2025
Need another elective to round out your schedule? Curious about trying something new?
If you’ve finished the academic writing requirement and have minimum second-year standing, you can take any of these courses offered in the Faculty of Humanities this year!
if you have questions about courses and programs that are right for you.
Religion and culture
RCS 306: Critics of Religion (Paul Bramadat)
RCS 305: Magic, Mysticism and the Occult (Martin Adam)
Human rights
PAAS 309: Human Rights and Social Justice in Asia (Thiti Jamkajornkeiat)
HSTR 329B: Race, Racism and Ethnicity in Canada since 1900 (Georgia Sitara)
HSTR 373A: Violence, Memory, and Transitional Justice (Cynthia Milton)
The ancient world
MEDI 303: The Medieval World (Michael Reed)
GRS 314: Age of Nero (Cedric Littlewood)
GRS 337: Herodotus and Greek Ethnography (Geoffrey Kron)
GRS 350: Transformation of the Late Roman World (Greg Rowe)
GRS 348: The Ancient City of Rome (Alejandro Sinner)
GRS 349: Jews and Christians in the Greek and Roman World (Greg Rowe)
Science, health and medicine
PHIL 331: Biomedical Ethics (Eike-Henner Kluge)
HSTR 471: Health and Social Justice (Jaipreet Virdi)
HSTR 381: Medicine in the Modern World (Jaipreet Virdi)
ATWP 305: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (Loren Gaudet)
HSTR 300B: Hockey Nation – Sports History and Canadian Identity (Norm Fennema)
Climate action
GNDR 339 A01: Black Feminist and Coalitional Ecological Thought (Anita Girvan)
GNDR 339 A0X: Ocean Feminisms (Katherine Achacoso)
Global media
PAAS 358: Global Chinese Cinema (Angie Chau)
PAAS 346: Digital Asia (Tri Phuong)
HSTR 389B: Digital History (John Lutz)
PAAS 488: Japanese Fantasy (Tim Iles)
GMST 454/ENSH 342V: A Cultural History of Vampires in Literature and Film (Matt Pollard)
GRS 383: Greece and Rome in Modern Popular Culture (Mark Nugent)
SLST 364: Eastern Europe Through Western Eyes (Olga Pressitch)
SPAN 307: Latin American Culture through Music (Christine Forster)
GMST 482: Visual Culture and the Holocaust (Charlotte Schallie)
PAAS 409: Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Asian-Pacific Cultures (Tri Phuong)
Indigenous cultures, histories and languages
GNDR 308: Indigeneity, Gender, Land (waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy)
GNDR 310: Indigenous Feminisms (waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy)
PAAS 320: Indigenous Asia (ann-elise lewellan)
ENSH 395: Sharing Family Medicine Through Storytelling (Richard Van Camp)
HSTR 328D: Indigenous-Settler Treaties in Canada since 1600 (Peter Cook)
HSTR 376E: History of Aztecs, Inca and Maya (Beatriz de Alba-Koch)
Gender and sexuality
HSTR 385C: History of Sexuality (Rachel Hope Cleves)
HSTR 409: History of Kink (Rachel Hope Cleves)
GNDR 349: Abolition is a Feminist Issue (Davina Bhandar)
GNDR 332: Race, Gender and Power (Georgia Sitara)
RCS 309: Religion and Sexuality (Rachel Brown)