Buildings
Resources
Student Life
Academics
Involvement
100
This building is home to the Alma Mater Society, student club offices, and also where you can pick up your Whistler pass.
What is the Student Union Building?
100
This volunteer run organization is located in the basement of the Student Union Building and offers a free lunch every Friday
What is Sprouts?
100
This place located in the basement of the Student Union Building offers free groceries to current students six times a semester.
What is the AMS Food Bank
100
This place located in the Ponderosa Centre provides writing advice (not proofreading) to students on an appointment basis.
What is the Writing Centre?
100
This event takes place at UBC every year to help raise money and awareness for Cystic Fibrosis.
What is Shinerama?
200
This building is where you pick up your U-pass on the 16th of every month.
What is the UBC Bookstore (UBC Central)?
200
This office in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre provides health advice and free goodies.
What is the AMS Wellness Centre?
200
This office can provide you with unpaid journalism experience, a free meal, and top news around campus that is published every Monday and Thursday by paper and online.
What is the Ubyssey?
200
The best time to ask your professor/TA questions and how to improve in a course.
What are Office Hours?
200
This student run radio station provides volunteer opportunities and great programs.
What is CiTR?
300
This building has beautiful study space and the resourceful Chapman Learning Commons (also known as the Harry Potter room)
What is the Irving K Barber Learning Centre?
300
This place offers information about your AMS/GSS health insurance and is across from Sprouts.
What is the Health and Dental Plan office?
300
This free service available in the SUB offers confidential peer crisis support, information, and referrals to the UBC community.
What is Speakeasy?
300
The best go-to person besides your professor to seek help from for assignments and coursework.
What is a Teaching Assistant (TA)
300
This space located in the SUB allows students to showcase their art work in a professional manner.
What is the AMS Art Gallery?
400
This conglomerate of buildings house the Arts faculty classrooms and offices.
What is the Buchanan Complex?
400
This is a complimentary service provided for anyone on campus who would like to be escorted from one place to another by a male and female student.
What is Safewalk?
400
This organization offers non-academic courses similar to ones in community centres specifically for the campus population.
What is AMS Minischool?
400
This organization offers drop-in and appointment-based tutoring for first/second year students.
What is AMS Tutoring?
400
This program allows you to obtain paid work experience while completing your degree.
What is Arts Co-op?
500
This building is where you can pay tuition, ask about student loans, seek free counselling advice, get help for employment, and make connections at the Centre of Student Involvement.
What is Brock Hall?
500
This place offers expertise for students of all genders who are survivors of sexualized violence, and their friends, family, and partners
What is the Sexual Assault Support Centre?
500
A 24 ha area saved by the AMS president (Blake Frederick) that sells produce and is used by the LFS faculty for research.
What is the UBC Farm?
500
This office is located in Buchanan D111 and it provides advisors available on a drop-in basis from 1-4pm (Mon-Fri) to help you plan your courses, answer questions about your degree, and help you deal with exam hardship.
What is Arts Academic Advising Office?
500
This office provides information for students interested in going on exchange. (Arts is the only faculty that allows students to go in their second year.)
What is International House/UBC Go Global