Language touches every area of our lives. Language sciences explores how.
The UBC Language Sciences Institute aims to shape the future of this field.
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Written by Dr. David Gramling (he/they), professor and head of the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, and Matthew Chan, third-year undergraduate student in Arts.
As the Ensuring Full Literacy team reaches the mid-point of their Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant
UBC Okanagan’s Bachelor of Nsyilxcn Language Fluency program, which launched in 2021, will watch its first cohort of students graduate this summer having completed the brand-new degree program.
We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.