I had the privilege of studying at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for the 2019 – 2020 academic year. In this post, I hope to share with you, the reader, four essential tips I have learned during my time abroad. While it might have been easier to write about commonly-shared topics, I’ve decided to

For the Corbett Exchange Program, as with most exchange programs, COVID-19 brought forth new and  unforeseen complications. From the beginning of this program, my primary goal was to focus on the cross-border connections and making a “second home” in Seattle. While our classes may have been cut short, I still feel that I have achieved

Our featured course for fall quarter 2020 is ARCTIC 200: Indigenous Diplomacies and International Relations in the Arctic, offered Tuesdays from 2:30-5:20pm. Taught by Jason Young (a former Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Inuktitut through the Canadian Studies Center), this course introduces students to international relations in the Arctic, with an emphasis on understanding

Each year, the Center welcomes newly awarded Corbett Exchange Scholars and sends off our departing students with a reception that brings them together with our patrons, Gary and Consuelo Corbett, representatives from the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle, and staff and administrators from the Canadian Studies Center and the Henry M. Jackson School of

Thanks to a new partnership between our Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada, which includes Western Washington University, students at both institutions are eligible for internships with the Consulate General of Canada, Seattle. The Consulate General of Canada, Seattle and University of Washington and Western Washington University are opening the Virtual Canada-U.S. Relations International

At the end of May, Kathy Snow, UW’s 2019-20 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies, and colleagues from Nunatsiavut, discussed Inuit education in Canada. Across the Arctic, innovative teachers, principals, school boards, and community members have been moving forward the National Committee on Inuit Education’s goal of supporting Inuit youth to stay in school and achieve

The Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University (WWU), our partner in the federally-funded Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada, is pleased to announce a new team member. Lisl Schroeder joins the Center for Canadian-American Studies as program coordinator. She previously worked for Conference Services at WWU and at Canada House programs on

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the desLibris online library has been made available to the UW Libraries through the end of June. desLibris consists of over 80,000 resources from and about Canada, and includes ebooks, government documents and thinktank policy papers. Titles may be searched, cited, downloaded, read offline and shared with others. To access desLibris, click here. If you are

This spring quarter, former Corbett Scholar Sierra Red Bow co-developed and co-taught JSIS A 280: Indigenous Encounters alongside Professor Jonathan Warren (international studies). Sierra’s experience as a UW exchange student to UBC in the fall of 2019 influenced her contributions to the course, and she shares more below: “The course I’m currently teaching with professor Jonathan

Congratulations to 10 UW graduate students who were awarded FLAS Fellowships to study French, Nuu-chah-nulth and Tsek’ene in 2020-21. Lindsey Popken (pictured here) is a graduate student in the School of Marine Environmental Affairs within the College of the Environment. She is interested in sea otter conservation and is developing a project with the Nuu-chah-nulth