LFS:Restricted Electives/Food and Resource Economics (2024W or beyond)

Students are able to choose their Restricted Electives from all courses in all categories listed below. Please plan ahead and ensure that you have the prerequisites needed for the Restricted Electives you intend to take in years 2, 3 and 4. You may have to use your Unrestricted Electives to do this.

Both the Data Analytics and Business and Markets majors require 6 credits of Restricted Electives in year 2.

In addition:
- The Data Analytics major requires 21 credits of Restricted Electives in years 3 and 4, for a total of 27 credits of Restricted Electives for the entire degree. Students can choose any courses from the list below to fulfill these 27 credits.
- The Business and Markets major requires 18 credits of Restricted Electives in years 3 and 4, for a total of 24 credits of Restricted Electives for the entire degree. Students can choose any courses from the list below to fulfill these 24 credits.

For support in exploring your restricted electives, please contact your Program Advisor, James (Jim) Vercammen (fre.advising@ubc.ca).

Food and Resource Economics (FRE_V)

Any 300 or 400 level FRE_V course, excluding listed program requirement courses.

Economics (ECON)

ECON_V 221: Introduction to Strategic Thinking

ECON_V 234: Wealth and Poverty of Nations

ECON_V 241: Introduction to Global Development

ECON_V 255: Understanding Globalization

ECON_V 302: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis I

ECON_V 303: Intermediate Microeconomics II

ECON_V 317: Poverty and Inequality

ECON_V 318: History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith

ECON_V 319: History and Philosophy of Economics from Ricardo to Keynes

ECON_V 323: Quantitative Economic Modelling with Data Science Applications

ECON_V 336: Economic History of Canada

ECON_V 339: Economics of Technological Change

ECON_V 345: Money and Banking

ECON_V 350: Public Finance Policy Topics

ECON_V 355: Introduction to International Trade

ECON_V 356: Introduction to International Finance

ECON_V 360: Labour Economics

ECON_V 365: Topics in Canadian Industrial Organization and Regulation Policy

ECON_V 367: Economic Analysis of Law

ECON_V 370: Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Economics of Project Evaluation

ECON_V 371: Economics of the Environment

ECON_V 390: Introduction to Economic Research

ECON_V 392: Topics in Economics

ECON_V 398: Causal Methods.

ECON_V 421: Introduction to Game Theory and Applications

ECON_V 441: The Process of Economic Development

ECON_V 442: Issues in Economic Development

ECON_V 450: Economics of Taxation

ECON_V 455: International Trade

ECON_V 465: Market Structure

ECON_V 466: The Economics of Government Regulation of Business

ECON_V 471: Economics of Nonrenewable Resources

ECON_V 472: Economics of Renewable Resources

ECON_V 473: The Economics of Climate Change.

Commerce (COMR)

COMR_V 329: Principles of Organizational Behaviour

COMR_V 398: Introduction to Business Processes and Operations

COMR_V 457: Fundamentals of Financial Accounting

COMR_V 458: Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting

COMR_V 465: Marketing Management

COMR_V 473: Business Finance

COMR_V 485: Social Entrepreneurship

COMR_V 493: Strategic Management in Business

Wildlife Conservation and Animal Welfare

APBI_V 314: Animals and Society

APBI_V 315: Animal Welfare and the Ethics of Animal Use

APBI_V 317: Welfare and Ethics of using Animals in Science

APBI_V 327: Introduction to Entomology

APBI_V 414: Animals and Global Issues

APBI_V 415: Applied Animal Behaviour

APBI_V 416: Compassionate Conservation

APBI_V 495: Human Wildlife Conflict

BIOL_V 230: Foundations of Ecology

BIOL_V 327: Introduction to Entomology

CONS_V 200: Foundations of Conservation

CONS_V 330: Conservation Science and Sustainability

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

APBI_V 200: Introduction to Soil Science

APBI_V 244: Atmospheric Environments

APBI_V 260: Agroecology I: Introduction to principles and techniques

APBI_V 265: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems

APBI_V 318: Applied Plant Breeding

APBI_V 319: Aquaculture and the environment

APBI_V 322: Horticultural Techniques

APBI_V 324: Introduction to Seed Plant Taxonomy

APBI_V 327: Introduction to Entomology

APBI_V 328: Weed Science

APBI_V 342: Soil Biology

APBI_V 360: Agroecology II: Application and analysis

APBI_V 361: Key Indicators of Agroecosystem Sustainability

APBI_V 401: Soil Processes

APBI_V 402: Sustainable Soil Management

APBI_V 403: Soil Sampling, Analyses and Data Interpretation

APBI_V 423: Ecological Restoration

APBI_V 428: Integrated Pest Management

APBI_V 460: Agroecology III: Synthesis and evaluation

LFS_V 350: Land, Food, and Community II: Principles and Practice of Community Food Security

Food Nutrition and Health

FNH_V 200: Exploring Our Food

FNH_V 250: Nutrition Concepts and Controversies

FNH_V 313: Food Microbiology

FNH_V 342: Critical Perspectives on Consumer Food Practices

FNH_V 355: International Nutrition

FNH_V 371: Human Nutrition Over the Life Span

FNH_V 415: Business Concepts in Food, Nutrition and Health

FNH_V 455: Applied International Nutrition

FNH_V 472: Maternal and Fetal Nutrition

FNH_V 473: Applied Public Health Nutrition

Environment and Climate Change

CONS_V 425: Sustainable Energy: Policy and Governance

ENVR_V 200: Introduction to Environmental Science

ENVR_V 300: Introduction to Research in Environmental Science

ENVR_V 400: Community Project in Environmental Science

ENVR_V 410: Energy, Environment, and Society

ENVR_V 430: Ecological Dimensions of Sustainability

ENVR_V 440: Analytical Methods in Sustainability Science

FRST_V 200: Forest Plant Biology I

FRST_V 201: Forest Ecology

FRST_V 399: Introduction to Research Methods

GEOG_V 310: Environment and Sustainability

GEOG_V 312: Climate Change: Science and Society

GEOG_V 313: Environmental Justice and Social Change

GEOG_V 410: Environment and Society

GEOS_V 200: Atmospheric Environments

GEOS_V 305: Introduction to Hydrology

PHIL_V 332: Environmental Ethics

POLI_V 351: Environmental Politics and Policy

POLI_V 375: Global Environmental Politics

SOCI_V 360: Sociology of Natural Resources

SOCI_V 420: Sociology of the Environment

UFOR_V 200: Urban Forests and Well-being

UFOR_V 403: Ecological Restoration

WOOD_V 461: Globalization and Sustainability