Field Schools and Intensives

At Coast Mountain College you study, work and play in one of the most spectacular places on earth. Your classroom is connected to place - to rich cultures, rugged landscapes and breathtaking vistas.

Our intensive spring and summer field schools combine a full semester of learning into just a few weeks where you'll experience northwest BC's incredible history, culture and environment.

This is education unbound. 

Registration opens February 15, 2024. 

Programs offered

People and Place: Indigenous Connections to Place and Landscape in Northwest BC

This course explores the history and culture of Indigenous Peoples of northwestern BC, with a focus on how deep-time connections to place and landscape inform cultural knowledge, practices, and traditions.

Through classroom and field-based experience, we will explore how Indigenous peoples have managed, modified, and stewarded their lands for millennia, and how long-term practical experience with the landscape structures notions of territory, belonging, and Indigenous Rights and Title. We will study culturally significant places and landscapes through ways of knowing such as Indigenous oral histories, traditional ecological knowledge, anthropological ethnography, and archaeology, in order to understand connections between key concepts of place, culture, and history.

Field trips may include historic sites, museums, Indigenous communities and other places of significance on the landscape. The field portion may involve overnight stays in remote areas and/or camping.


Courses | 6 credits

  • ANTH 203 - Northern Nations of the Northwest Coast
  • GEOG 227 - Ethnogeography of Northwest BC

Professor:

Admission requirements

Dates and locations

May 1 - May 19, 2023

Prince Rupert

Program fees

Domestic   International   
 Field trip fee  $700.00  Field trip fee  $700.00 
 GEOG 227  $319.17  GEOG 227  $1,306.71
 ANTH 203  $319.17  ANTH 203  $1,306.71 
 Student Union fees  $41.99  Student Union Fees  $41.99
 Total   $1,380.33   Total   $3,355.41

Fees effective for the 2022/23 academic year.

Non-refundable deposit due at registration: $200.00

Full tuition is due 10 business days before start.

People and Place: Indigenous Connections to Place and Landscape in Northwest BC

This course explores the history and culture of Indigenous Peoples of northwestern BC, with a focus on how deep-time connections to place and landscape inform cultural knowledge, practices, and traditions.

Through classroom and field-based experience, we will explore how Indigenous peoples have managed, modified, and stewarded their lands for millennia, and how long-term practical experience with the landscape structures notions of territory, belonging, and Indigenous Rights and Title. We will study culturally significant places and landscapes through ways of knowing such as Indigenous oral histories, traditional ecological knowledge, anthropological ethnography, and archaeology, in order to understand connections between key concepts of place, culture, and history.

Field trips may include historic sites, museums, Indigenous communities and other places of significance on the landscape. The field portion may involve overnight stays in remote areas and/or camping.


Courses | 6 credits

  • ANTH 203 - Northern Nations of the Northwest Coast
  • GEOG 227 - Ethnogeography of Northwest BC

Professor:

Admission requirements

Dates and locations

May 1 - May 19, 2023

Prince Rupert

Program fees

Domestic   International   
 Field trip fee  $700.00  Field trip fee  $700.00 
 GEOG 227  $319.17  GEOG 227  $1,306.71
 ANTH 203  $319.17  ANTH 203  $1,306.71 
 Student Union fees  $41.99  Student Union Fees  $41.99
 Total   $1,380.33   Total   $3,355.41

Fees effective for the 2022/23 academic year.

Non-refundable deposit due at registration: $200.00

Full tuition is due 10 business days before start.