Program Requirements


The minor is comprised of 18 credits of approved courses, at least 9 credits of which must be from the program’s primary courses (List A). The rest of the credits may be obtained from the Approved Course List (List A and/or List B). List A consists of courses offered by the program’s affiliated faculty with a strong focus on critical issues and methodologies specific to the field of Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies while List B offers a wider range of courses across disciplines that might help to supplement and extend students’ research and learning interests.

Enrolment in the minor is encouraged as a means to enrich existing majors in Asian Studies, English, First Nations and Indigenous Studies, Geography, History, Sociology, and other Arts majors. Non-Arts degree majors should be aware of the prerequisites for 300 and 400 level courses that will count towards requirements of the minor.

How to Declare the ACAM Minor

Step 1
Check the program requirements above and plan your course schedule so that you have the number of credits needed to complete the ACAM minor. Students are able to declare an ACAM minor once they have reached 30 credits or 2nd year standing or above.
Step 2
Contact the ACAM Minor Advisor to discuss your plan of study. Submit your inquiry along with your student number and latest transcript by email to acam.advising@ubc.ca
Step 3 
Declare the ACAM minor! Log in to Workday Student with your campus-wide login (CWL), and add “ACAM” as your specialization.

Non-Arts degree majors should be aware of the prerequisites for 300 and 400 level courses that will count towards requirements of the minor. If you are considering an ACAM minor, we strongly encourage you to contact the ACAM Minor Advisor as soon as possible so that we can support your program planning.
After you declare the minor
Welcome! We encourage you to be in touch with the ACAM Minor Advisor about your coursework planning throughout the minor.

In addition to our list of approved courses, students may request permission to count other courses as List B courses and/or up to 6 credits of upper-level Asian language courses if they are deemed pertinent to the student’s ACAM program. For all such requests, students are required to consult with and obtain approval from the ACAM Minor Advisor. Please email acam.advising@ubc.ca, along with a course syllabus for List B approval requests.