{"id":211,"date":"2017-07-05T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T19:02:39","slug":"211-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/211-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2017, UBC\u2019s departments of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eoas.ubc.ca\/\">EOAS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/\">Geography<\/a> have been working in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ucentralasia.org\/\">University of Central Asia<\/a> (UCA) to design, develop and transfer the 22-course curriculum making up UCA\u2019s new undergraduate B.Sc. program in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ucentralasia.org\/Admissions\/EarthAndEnvironment\">Earth and Environmental Sciences<\/a> (EES)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/files\/2017\/07\/uca_blue-e1499290862325.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"60\" \/> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/files\/2017\/07\/GEOGlogo-e1499290835604.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"60\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-229\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/files\/2017\/07\/eoslogo-rev-e1499290797529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Initial project information is provided on several pages via the main menu above, and blog posts seen here.<\/p>\n<p>Why have we in EOAS and Geography been so thrilled to participate on this journey? See our \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/why-were-so-excited\/\">why we\u2019re excited<\/a>\u201d page for some thoughts on benefits to individuals, departments, UBC and our partners.<\/p>\n<p>The first cohort of students who will take these courses registered in the first of their 5-year degree program in September 2016. Our courses start in September 2018 and 2019. Our journey began in March 2017 and have benefited from many courses taught by UBC faculty. Please let us know if you have questions, concerns or comments. Postings on this blog hopefully can serve as a means of seeing how progress unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video on the opening of the first of three campuses. The one shown here is at Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, while the Earth and Environmental Sciences program will be offered from the second campus in Khorog, Tajikistan, which opened September 2017.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aga Khan Development Network | University of Central Asia\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ci9GQqAVfXI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2017, UBC\u2019s departments of EOAS and Geography have been working in partnership with the University of Central Asia (UCA) to design, develop and transfer the 22-course curriculum making up UCA\u2019s new undergraduate B.Sc. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES). \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Initial project information is provided on several pages via the main menu &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/211-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22035,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eescourses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}