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-UNBC to Offer First Web Courses

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The University of Northern
British’ Columbia will be
offering courses on the World
Wide Web for the first time in
January: The four offerings
from the English program will
focus on First Nations
Literature, Canadian
Literature, Post-Colonial
Literature, and Creative
Writing. :

Students anywhere with
access to the World Wide Web
will be able to register for the
courses, and although

far away as Kenya, Singapore,
New Zealand, and Australia.

Once registered, a student
will receive a password to
access the web pages, where
they will find the course
outline, lecture notes and
recommended readings.
Writing assignments will be
required, but there will be no
exams in the Web courses.
Students will be able to interact
with their classmates and the
professor via e-mail.

“Only 40 or 50 universities

others, like UNBC, about to
launch course offerings on the
Internet,” says David Dowling,
Chair of the UNBC English
program. “This is a whole new
mode of offering courses that
will at the very least have great
potential in making courses
available to students in our
region.”

Student performance will be
closely monitored throughout
the semester with an eye to
improving future web courses
and making them more
student-friendly.

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UNBC Opens Northern Women’s Health Centre

The University of Northern
BC will be the northern centre
for the BC Centre of
Excellence in Women’s
Health.

The BC Centre of Excellence
is located at BC Women’s
Hospital in Vancouver and
includes community partners
across the province, as well as
researchers from UNBC, UBC
and the University of Victoria.
The Northern Secretariat will
be located at UNBC, and will
ensure that research on

effectively addresses - the
unique cultural, geographic
and economic dynamics faced

by women living in Canada’s
northern regions.

“Research will be centered
around improving the health
status of women who live in
remote, rural and northern
areas, and whose health
concerns may be complicated
by geographic isolation, race,
abilities, lack of access to
women-centered care, and
other health issues,” says
professor Barbera Isaac.
“Many women face significant
disadvantages regarding their

-health and access to health-care —

as 4 consequence of their life
circumstances.”
As an integral part of the

larger BC Centre of excellence,
the Northern Secretariat will
network with northern
community women’s groups.
The BC Centre of Excellence
is one of five across the
country that has received $2
million from Health Canada,
and will focus its work on the
health needs of women, the
patterns health provision, and
influences on health.