From anthropology to law, medieval studies to zoology, UVic offers students a vast selection of courses to choose from—almost 2,350 in total. In this and subsequent issues of The Ring we’ll highlight a few of these courses, to show you what
our students are learning, and why.

Linguistics 398: Language and Gender. Do girls act like girls, talk like girls and interact with others as girls because they’re socialized to be that way? That’s one of the questions Dr. Maggie Warbey addresses in her course.

Psychology 333: Consumer Psychology. Psychology professor Dr. Robert Gifford encourages his students to keep their eyes peeled for advertisements, wherever they may be. He wants them to pay attention to the marketing strategy that make the ads work, or not work.

Music 115: Listening to Music: Western Music. Professor Gene Dowling's year-long class isn’t a study of Nashville’s repertoire. It’s an exploration of the Euro-centric music that arose out of the medieval period and evolved into the symphonies and complex vocal and instrumental classics that are so revered today.