General Information:

 

Canada’s Internment Era: A Field School, is a 2-week intensive course taught at the University of Victoria (UVic) through the Department of History in conjunction with Continuing Studies. This course is open to UVic students as well as in-service teachers from across Canada. The program seeks to place participants in unique learning environments that invoke and inspire deep intellectual thought and robust discussion amongst participants, community members, and faculty. The program is delivered through a mixture of intensive face-to-face instruction at the University of Victoria, and through a week of travel and site visits with the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre’s (NNMCC) Internment Bus Tour.

 

As stated on the NNMCC’s website, “The tour offers a unique opportunity to learn about the first difficult days of internment at Hastings Park in Vancouver, and to visit historic communities, such as Greenwood, Christina Lake, New Denver, Kaslo, Slocan, and Sandon. In these towns, existing buildings were repurposed to house Japanese Canadians. The tour will also locate remote town sites that no longer exist, including Tashme, Lemon Creek, Popoff, and East Lillooet. While they have a solemn past, several of these locations still have small but thriving Japanese Canadian communities.”

 

The centre goes on to state that “[d]uring the tour, Nikkei National Museum staff will present comprehensive information, and local historians and residents will fill in site-specific details. And you never know who will be on the bus to share a great story.”

 

For more information please visit the NNMCC’s website, or email Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross at Jstross@uvic.ca you can also find syllabi for past Field Schools at the bottom of this page.

 

Student Information:

 

This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. If you choose to participate you will be granted 1.5 units of credit and as such will be responsible for paying your respective associated tuition. These rates can be found in the annual fee schedule.  Additionally, participants will be required to pay a $1000 dollar program fee. Participants will also be responsible for their own travel costs between Vancouver and Victoria. Please see below for a sample breakdown of associated fees for full time Domestic students.

 

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This estimate does not take into account any ancillary fees charged by student organizations e.g., the UVSS or GSS. All estimates are approximate and subject to change. Follow up on your own before choosing to participate.

*These fees were taken from the 2021 fee schedule

** This figure is derived assuming that you are a fulltime student with a BC transit UPass and will make use of BC Ferries as a walk on Passenger (~$17.50) and a TransLink day pass (~$10.00). It is calculated as a round trip.

 

Please visit the University of Victoria’s Financial Aid website to see if any bursary or scholarship options are available to you. If you require financial assistance, you may also contact UVic’s Financial Aid office, (finaid@uvic.ca) to inquire about any options that may be available to you. In addition, depending on the number of participants and the amount of funding available to program organizers, bursaries may be made available to students to help cover the costs of participation.

 

Teacher Information:

 

In-service teachers are also invited to participate in this program. Delivery will be the same for all participants with some minor differences depending on how you choose to enroll. In-service teachers may enroll in the course through UVic if they wish to receive academic credit. Alternatively, teachers are invited to enroll in the course through Continuing Studies.

 

Thanks to generous donations by partner organizations all costs associated with this program, including travel to Victoria from anywhere in Canada, accommodation, tour, and registration will be covered for in-service teachers that are selected for this opportunity.

 

Due to the unique nature of this program, it is necessary to have those interested in participating submit an application package. This must include the following:

 

• Cover Letter

• Resume

• Dissemination Plan

• District-level Letter of Support

 

Dissemination Plan: As part of the Field School, participants will be provided with access to newly-developed resources by Landscapes of Injustice for teaching the history of internment and dispossession at elementary and secondary levels. The resources are flexible and customizable, and were developed by teachers for teachers. To be eligible for funding, applicants must include a description of a plan for teaching and sharing this history (and the resources) in their home district in the school year and in subsequent years.

 

District-level Letter of Support: The letter should indicate support for the proposed dissemination plan (e.g., PD-day events, professional conferences, other specially organized presentations).

 

For enquiries and to apply, contact:

 

Jordan Stanger-Ross
Associate Professor, History, University of Victoria
Project Director, Landscapes of Injustice
jstross@uvic.ca | www.landscapesofinjustice.com