Curriculum
Students of the Aquatic Ecosystems and Fish in Forested Watersheds class (FRST 386) - Photo by Javier Landaeta
UBC offers a wide variety of credit options in sustainability learning that will challenge you intellectually and equip you to understand and meet the ecological, social and economic opportunities of our times. You can choose from more than 450 sustainability courses across campus that range in scope from the highly specialized to the multidisciplinary, or you can orient your curriculum around a particular sustainability issue or topic by choosing a sustainability-related degree program. You can also discover non-conventional ways to advance your sustainability learning at UBC via alternative credit options.
Sustainability Education Resource Centre
Discover how to incorporate sustainability into your existing degree program at the new Sustainability Education Resource Centre. The Sustainability Student Advisor will help explore your course and program options, provide one-on-one assistance, and offer further resources on co-curricular opportunities t...
Courses
Explore more than 450 courses at the undergraduate and graduate level that address environmental, social and techno-economic aspects of sustainability in over 50 subjects.Sustainability Rela...
Academic Programs
UBC offers more than 25 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs that allow you to orient your degree on your sustainability subject area of interest. Explore the list below to find the program that’s right for you. Sustainability-related undergraduate degrees are offered by the Faculties of Arts, Applied Science, Commerce & Busin...
Alternative Credit Options
UBC offers non-conventional ways to advance your sustainability learning while gaining academic credit. Browse the list below to explore these alternative credit options, such as courses which integrate experiential education at the UBC Farm and opportunities for students to develop their own sustainability-oriented course. UBC SEEDS Program...
Teaching & Learning
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Green + Green: Podcasts highlight Environmental Entrepreneurship
The fight for sustainability has long been painted as a pitched battle of environmentalists versus...
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Sustainability Leadership: Playing a Bigger Game
Sustainability leaders tackle tough questions: What is the bigger game you are playing? What are...
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The next generation of sustainability
What if there was a new way of approaching sustainability? What if the old environmental agenda of...
Purple and Yellow Volunteer Night
Tue, May 15, 2012 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). Volunteer with the Bike Co-op to...
Intro to Cheese Making
Wed, May 16, 2012 6:00 PM - 9:45 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $40 (+ $1.99 registration fee). Join...
Purple and Yellow Volunteer Night
Tue, May 22, 2012 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). Volunteer with the Bike Co-op to...
05.15.12 -
UBC researcher wins 2012 Trudeau Foundation scholarship
Daniel Werb, senior research assistant at the Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI...
05.14.12 -
Vancouver, Montreal, Portland and Minneapolis among most “bikeable” cities in North America: UBC research
University of British Columbia researchers are making bikeability research easily accessible to...
05.8.12 -
H1N1 discovery paves way for universal flu vaccine: UBC research
University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential way to develop universal flu...
