Home course registration

By the AMS Office of Academic & University Affairs and the AMS MarCom team

On average undergrad students pay over $1200 per year on textbooks. With affordability being one of the largest concerns amongst students, rising textbook costs mean students going without course materials because of other financial burdens, like food or housing.

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free learning resources tailored to your courses. Resources include textbooks, journal articles, test banks, videos, and more. OERs benefit everyone – they reduce student costs for learning materials and give instructors more flexibility with adapting resources to their courses and teaching goals.

RMST_V 202 with Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray

RMST_V 202 (Introduction to Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II: Modern to Post-Modern) with Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray integrates videos, podcasts, blogs, and openly licensed textbook.

PHAR 203 & PHAR 304 with Dr. Alexander Smith

PHAR 203 (Genetics for the Pharmaceutical Sciences) & PHAR 304 (Techniques in Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Theory and Laboratory) with Dr. Alexander Smith uses free software, manuals, notebooks, virtual textbooks, and other online tools.

POLI 260 & POLI 360 with Dr. Arjun Chowdhury

POLI 260 & POLI 360 with Dr. Arjun Chowdhury uses fully accessible online readings, with a focus on important texts in the field that students can access for free.

ECON 317 with Dr. David Green

ECON 317 with Dr. David Green uses openly available or self-written course materials.

CONS 200 with Dr. Fernanda Tomaselli

CONS 200 with Dr. Fernanda Tomaselli has long involved students in an open pedagogy project where they create and publish OER related to conservation.

POLI 375 & POLI 464 with Dr. Peter Dauvergne

POLI 375 & POLI 464 with Dr. Peter Dauvergne creates a cost-free learning environment by using free materials and activities and selecting useful, thought-provoking readings.

MES 300 with Dr. Pheroze Unwalla

MES 300 with Dr. Pheroze Unwalla accessible readings that give students a broad overview of the field and expose them to different perspectives and debates.

COMM 205 with Dr. Zorana Svedic

COMM 205 with Dr. Zorana Svedic uses a free open-source textbook, which reduces financial barriers and keeps the course materials accessible.

Home course registration

By Sheldon Goldfarb, AMS Archivist, the AMS Archives team and the AMS MarCom team

Course registration starts soon and you might be stressed – but could you have survived it in the days before the internet?

Line up for multiple hours

If you had been at UBC in 1949, you would have been lining up outside, in-person, to get into the old Armoury building (this continued until 1987). You might even have to go building to building, scurrying across campus, and it might not be done in one day!

 

Here’s the 1986 version, this time in the War Memorial Gym.

Fill out forms by hand

Once inside, you would go table to table, maybe meeting your prof-to-be who would be there with forms for you to fill out to get into the class you wanted. 

Picture time!

After filling out forms and waiting in line, you get your picture taken, presumably for an ID card. 

Pay your fees

Don’t forget to pay your fees!

1988: UBC introduces Telereg ☎️

People back in the 60s suggested registration by snail mail, that didn’t happen. In 1988, we got registration by phone with old-fashioned landlines with touchpads. You’d punch in your student number and your course numbers!

2001: Online course registration

By the mid-90’s people became frustrated with Telereg. By 2001, Telereg was gone and we’ve had online registration ever since!

Some of you can’t even win the Workday war 👀 Could you have survived in-person course registration at UBC?