Creative Resilience
Discover Online Learning at Emily Carr
Online learning at Emily Carr University provides students with unique opportunities to build resilient practices and real-world skills.
Our innovative faculty members have developed engaging and exciting courses that respond to our current moment, and find connections and purpose through their work.
Seventy percent of Emily Carr’s fall curriculum is online-only and fully accessible for students engaged in remote learning. Thirty percent of our fall curriculum is hybrid courses, which include some in-person activities.
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Curious about what online learning looks like at Emily Carr University? Explore the stories of our unique and exciting online courses:
Sam Meech on Video Practice as Empowerment in a Screen-Centric World
‘We’re all broadcasters now,’ says the digital artist and ECU faculty member.
Fadwa Bouziane on How Performance Art Helps Rethink Connection at a Time of Crisis
“We’re bodies with stories that need to be told,” says the performance artist and ECU faculty member.
Russna Kaur Paints with Radical Openness … And She Wants You to Do the Same
“Our paintings become an extension of ourselves, of our lives,” says the artist and ECU faculty member.
Remote Learning Brings Fresh Insight for Students of Artist Sara-Jeanne Bourget
Sensitivity to place and material infused the work of a pair of students studying drawing under the artist and ECU faculty member.
Jacqueline Turner Fosters Connection to Unlock the Potential of Collaborative Work
The writer and poet wants students to embrace the power of the unexpected in their writing practices, and beyond.
Community, Experimentation and Conversation Emerge Around Mark Johnsen’s ‘DIY Printmaking’ Course
Students dive deep into the age-old art of printmaking from inside pandemic isolation.
Anaïsa Visser Brings Firsthand Experience as COVID-Era Student to Teaching Practice
The writer and director aims to empower students to develop resilient practices.
Melany Nugent-Noble Explores the Poetics of Connection with Participatory Artwork
When it is necessary to stand still aims to draw people out of their routines, create curiosity about community and elevate the mundane.
Online Web Design Course Preps Students for Changing Future
Students are producing professional-grade design work using remote-collaboration tools.
Sarah Van Borek’s ‘Nature Speaking’ Connects Students to Community and Ecology Through Sound
The summer course will see students produce a series of podcasts documenting pandemic-era resiliency in the local environment.
ECU Faculty Deliver Summer Courses Designed to Build Innovative Practices During Lockdown
The artists and educators offer students opportunities to learn skills from sustaining a practice in times of uncertainty to bringing hands-on techniques of production into the virtual sphere.