LFS:Restricted Electives/AABI

Applied Animal Biology Major

Students in AABI are encouraged to take a number of APBI courses as these courses span a range of topics. In addition to APBI courses, students are encouraged to explore topics from one or more of the grouped courses listed below. Please note that these groupings are themes only and are designed to support students in exploring their course options. Students must also take into account that some courses on this list may be credit excluded. For support in exploring your restricted electives, please contact your Program Advisor, Dan Naidu (apbi.advising@ubc.ca).

Applied Animal Biology

APBI 214 – Animal Sheltering and Companion Animal Support Services
APBI 311 - Comparative Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Osmoregulatory Physiology
APBI 312 - Reproductive and Digestive Physiology
APBI 313 - Experimental Analysis of Animal Behaviour
APBI 314 - Animals and society
APBI 315 - Animal welfare and the ethics of animal use
APBI 316 - Equine Biology, Health and Welfare
APBI 317 - Animals Used in Science: Welfare and Ethics
APBI 319 - Aquaculture and the Environment
APBI 327 / BIOL 327 - Introduction to Entomology
APBI 398 - Research Methods in Applied Biology
APBI 410 - Applied Animal Health and Physiology
APBI 414 - Animals and Global Issues
APBI 415 - Applied Animal Behaviour
APBI 416 - Compassionate Conservation
APBI 419 - Fish Health
APBI 427 / BIOL 411 - Insect Ecology
APBI 490* - Topics in Applied Biology (consult your Program Advisor for current offerings)
APBI 495 - Human Wildlife Conflict
APBI 496 - Applied Animal Biology Practicum
APBI 497 - Directed Studies
APBI 498 - Undergraduate Essay
APBI 499 - Undergraduate Thesis

Agroecology and Food

APBI 260 or APBI 265 - Agroecology I or Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (students may select only one of these two courses)
APBI 360 - Agroecology II
APBI 361 - Key Indicators of Agroecosystem sustainability
APBI 460 - Advanced Agroecology
APBI 490 - Topics in Applied Biology (consult your Program Advisor for current offerings)
FNH 250 - Nutrition Concepts and Controversies
FNH 350 - Fundamentals of Nutrition
LFS 340 - First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants
LFS 350 - Land, Food & Community II
LFS 450 - Land, Food & Community III: Food System Sustainability

Behaviour

BIOL 310 - Introduction to animal behaviour
PSYC 1st - 3 credits of first year psychology
PSYC 306 - Principles in Animal Behaviour
PSYC 363 - Neuroscience of Simple Learning

Biochemistry

BIOC 302 - General Biochemistry
BIOC 303 - Molecular Biochemistry
BIOC 402 - Proteins: Structure and Function
BIOC 403 - Enzymology
BIOC 410 - Nucleic Acids-Structure and Function

Biology – Special Topics

BIOL 204 - Vertebrate structure and function
BIOL 205 - Comparative Invertebrate Zoology
BIOL 328 - Introductory parasitology
BIOL 331 - Developmental Biology
BIOL 427 - Ornithology and Herpetology
BIOL 445 - Darwin's Fishes
EOSC 475 - Marine Microbiology
EOSC 478 - Introduction to Fisheries Science
MICB 212 - Introductory Immunology and Virology
MICB 302 - Immunology
MICB 306 - Molecular Virology

Ecology and Conservation

APBI 327 - Introduction to Entomology
APBI 427 / BIOL 411 Insect Ecology
APBI 428 - Integrated Pest Management
APBI 444 - Agroforestry
BIOL 230 - Fundamentals of Ecology
BIOL 402 - Aquatic Ecology
BIOL 416 - Principles of Conservation Biology
CONS 330 - Conservation Science and Sustainability
CONS 486 - Fish Conservation and Management
EOSC 315 - The Ocean Ecosystem
EOSC 470 - Biological Oceanography
FRST 386 - Aquatic Ecosystems and Fish in Forested Watersheds
FRST 395 - Forest wildlife ecology and management
LFS 302 - International Field Studies
MRNE Courses - Some MRNE courses can be used for restricted electives but must be pre-approved by your program advisor prior to completing the course.

Economics

ECON 101 / LFS101 / ECON 310 - Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 102 / ECON 311 - Principles of Macroeconomics
FRE 295 - Managerial Economics

Ethics

ISCI 433 - Ethical Issues in Science
PHIL 332 - Environmental Ethics
PHIL 333 - Bio-Medical Ethics

General

MATH 101 (or equivalent) – Integral Calculus with Applications
PHYS 119 - Experimental Physics Lab
PHYS 118 (or equivalent) - Electricity, Light and Radiation
AMNE 301/CLST 301 – The Technical Terms of Medicine and Biological Science
CPSC 110 - Computation, Programs, and Programming
FRST 430 - Advanced Biometrics
LFS 496 - Career development internship

Genetics and Genomics

BIOL 234 - Fundamentals of Genetics
BIOL 335 - Molecular genetics
BIOL 336 - Fundamentals of Evolutionary Biology
BIOL 338 - Introduction to Genomics
BIOL 450 - Molecular Adaptation of Animals to the Environment
BIOL 463 - Gene Regulation in Development
BIOL 464 - Animal Developmental Genetics
FRST 302 - Forest Genetics

Physiology

Please note that several first and second year BIOL, CAPS and KIN courses overlap and are credit excluded. Students may select only courses that are not credit excluded. Please consult the calendar (http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,215,410,414).

Up to six credits of introductory physiology courses, for example BIOL 153, BIOL 155, KIN 151, KIN 131, KIN 132, CAPS 301 (consult calendar and prerequisites for future courses). Discuss with a program or academic advisor.

APBI 311 - Comparative Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Osmoregulatory Physiology
BIOL 260 - Fundamentals of Physiology
BIOL 325 - Introduction to animal mechanics and locomotion
BIOL 362 - Cellular Physiology
BIOL 371 - Principles of Neurobiology I (previously BIOL 361)
BIOL 372 - Principles of Neurobiology II
BIOL 454 - Comparative Animal Physiology
BIOL 457 - Comparative Environmental Physiology
CAPS 390 - Introduction to Microscopic Human Anatomy
CAPS 391 - Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy
MRNE 415 - Structure and Function in Marine Animals

No Longer Regularly Offered

While all of the courses listed below are approved to be used as Restricted Electives, they have not been offered at UBC recently, and may not be offered again soon. We do not recommend building your course plan around these options.

APBI 413 - Stress and Coping in Animals
APBI 418 - Intensive fish production
BIOL 413 – Zoogeography
BIOL 425 - Biomechanics
BIOL 455 - Comparative Neurobiology
CPSC 301 - Computing in the Life Sciences
FRST 308 - Forest Entomology
PSYC 270 - Introduction to Behavioural Neuroscience
PSYC 360 - Biopsychology