Flex Humanities
The Flex Humanities intake day is on January 27th, 2025 at Vancouver Technical Secondary School in the small gym starting at 8:30AM. — Applicants should arrive at the Main Foyer inside from the main entrance of the school between 8:30AM and 8:55AM. Program volunteers will escort applicants to the small gym. Starting at 9AM applicants will have a brief orientation to the program from our program coordinators. They will be organized into small groups and engage in a variety of activities and discussions intended to assess their compatibility with the program. After the activities they will move to classrooms on the 4th floor (413, 414, 415) where they will write their intake essays. When done they will be returned to the main foyer for pick-up. We expect them to be finished at approximately 12:30PM.

Vancouver Technical Secondary School

Program Information
Flex Humanities is a five year District Program that is structured by community-based learning. Students are required to work in cooperative and collaborative groups in open inquiry. This means that the Flex Humanities student is an independent, flexible, and self-reliant individual, comfortable working with groups of peers, deciding inquiry objectives and formats, and open to collaborative critical discourse.
Flex Humanities provides a supportive, stimulating and challenging program for self-motivated learners. Students are encouraged to develop their intellect by emphasizing critical thinking skills, analytical writing, cooperative learning, and open format projects. The program has been designed to meet the needs of above average ability students who are interested in working with other self-motivated students.
The program provides a supportive, stimulating, and challenging environment for self-motivated learners who can work effectively in both group, partner, and independent environments. Movement, argument (the philosophical kind of argument), and active engagement are key elements of our classrooms. Students are encouraged to develop their intellect by emphasizing critical thinking skills, analytical writing, cooperative learning, and open format projects. There is no distance education or flipped classroom options.
The program components are Philosophy, World Literature, History, Fine Arts, Film and Media Studies, and Integrated Arts and Technology. Each year opens with a community building outdoor camp shaped by Indigenous learning and place-based education. In grade 12, the students will participate in a major culminative place-based field study, traditionally travelling to New York to study immigration, geo-politics, history of slavery, Harlem Renaissance, civil rights history, modern art, and modern theatre. Since the Pandemic, our program has visited Victoria instead. Depending on interest and budgets we hope to return to New York.
In short, the program has been designed to meet the needs of students who are creative, above average learners who are interested philosophy, humanities, history fine arts, and technological extensions and who thrive in working with other self-motivated students.
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