BA 2002: Major Economics, Minor Commerce When Grace Mok first joined Co-op, she didn’t know what she wanted to do except for banking. She was open to all of the options presented to her. This path of trial and error eventually helped her narrow down her Economics major and Commerce minor to a career in Accounting, […]

2013 MLIS SLAIS Student of the Year Each year, the Arts Co-op Program recognizes a Master of Library and Information Studies co-op student for outstanding achievement in all aspects of student performance including academics, workplace, contribution to co-operative education and extra-curricular activities. This year’s winner, Ebony Magnus, was honoured for her work term at the […]

BA 2012: Major English Literature, Minor Psychology Where did Cindy work? Work Term 1 (8 months): Student Development Assistant, Student Development, UBC Faculty of Engineering Work Term 2 (4 months): Research and Communications Assistant, Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, Immigrant Integration Branch What did Cindy accomplish? Student Development, UBC Faculty of Engineering As a […]

2011 SLAIS Student of the Year (Master of Archival Studies) Each year, the Arts Co-op Program recognizes two SLAIS co-op students for outstanding achievement in all aspects of student performance, including academics, the workplace, and professional and/or community involvement. This year’s Master of Archival Studies winner is Dual Master of Archival & Master of Library […]

BA 2007: Major English Literature “Grab as much experience as possible! Current co-op students are in a very advantageous position to gain firsthand knowledge of the different work industries available to them.” For Christina Mate, her co-op experiences helped her realize her passion for technical writing. “I began to pursue job leads that would turn […]

BA 2011: Double Major Political Science and Sociology Where did Jasmine work? Work term 1 (4 months): Media Relations Officer, Service Canada Centre for Youth Work term 2 (8 months): Arts Career Initiatives Research Assistant, UBC Arts Co-op Program What did Jasmine accomplish? Service Canada Centre for Youth As a Media Relations Officer at Service […]

BA 2009: Double Major, English and Psychology Past work terms: Work term 1 (4 months): Archival Assistant, Bowen Island Historians Museum Archives Work term 2 (4 months): Content Services Assistant, Research in Motion Work term 3 (8 months): Technical Writer, Kodak Graphic Communications Canada Company “I’d like to say that my co-op experience has taken […]

2014 Undergraduate Student of the Year Double Major: Psychology & English Literature Each year, the Arts Co-op Program recognizes an Arts Co-op Undergraduate student for outstanding achievement in academics, workplace performance, contribution to co-operative education, and extra-curricular activities. This year’s winner, Jenny Ho, was honoured for her work term as a Learning Commons TECwhiz with […]

BA 2012: Economics (Honours) In the midst of her very first work term at the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Hiva Parandian, a 3rd year Honours Economics student, is starting to visualize the career path she hopes to pursue. “The Co-op Program will help me focus on what I want to do in life after […]

BA 2011: Major Political Science, Minor International Relations When the world’s eyes were set on Vancouver, British Columbia for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Arts Co-op student Jeffrey Cui was in the thick of it all, working through a Co-op term with Olympic sponsor Jet Set Sports; While hundreds of thousands of […]