from the United States

We interviewed Prof. Canelas to learn more about her experience at VIU in the Globalization Program.

“The VIU program provides many opportunities for interdisciplinary study. I have students in my class who are majoring in art history and economics, raging all the way from that to people who are nursing major. So that is different from what I normally teach. Normally I have students who are more focused on science careers. Actually I have learned a huge amount by teaching people who are in other fields.”

“For chemistry in particular it is challenging when there are students coming with different levels of chemistry experience. So I have been trying to address that by providing some foundation chemistry but also making sure that people who have years of chemistry in their background still are learning new things with every single class that I teach.”

Find out more about Prof. Canela’s VIU experience in her interview.