LFS:Restricted Electives/SAGE

Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Major

Note: students are encouraged to take courses across themes. The following categories are merely intended as suggestions for students interested in particular themes. If students are interested in other APBI courses not on this list, they are encouraged to contact their Program Advisor, Dan Naidu (apbi.advising@ubc.ca). (apbi.advising@ubc.ca).

General Interest

CONS 101 Introduction to Conservation
CONS 200 Foundations of Conservation
CONS 210 Visualizing Climate Change
CPSC 110 Computation, Programs and programming (4)
GEOS 102 Our Changing Environment: Climate & Ecosystems
GEOS 103 or EOSC 110 Changing Environment: Water & Landscapes or The Solid Earth: A Dynamic Planet
GEOS 270
FRE 302* or ECON 311**
Computation (choose one of EOSC 211 Computer Methods in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences or CPSC 110 Computation, Programs, and Programming)
Hydrology (choose one of EOSC 329 Groundwater Hydrology, FRST 385 Watershed Hydrology, GEOS 305 Introduction to Hydrology)

*Prerequisite: one of ECON 101 or ECON 310
**Credit will be given for only one of ECON 311 or ECON 102

Agroecology

APBI 327 Introduction to Entomology
APBI 361 Key indicators of Agroecosystem Sustainability
APBI 406 Pollination Biology
APBI 414 Animals and Global Issues
APBI 423 Ecological Restoration
APBI 427 Insect Ecology
APBI 428 Integrated Pest Management
APBI 444 Agroforestry
APBI 463 Insects in Agroecosystems
BIOL 205 Comparative Invertebrate Zoology
BIOL 204 Vertebrate Structure and Function
LFS 450* or ABPI 460* Land Food and Community III or Advanced Agroecology

*If one is not taken as a requirement

Crop Production

APBI 322 Horticultural Techniques (next offered 2025-2026)
APBI 328 Weed Science (next offered 2025-2026)
APBI 405 Plant-Water Relations for Sustainable Agriculture
APBI 442 Grapevine and Berry Crop Biology or APBI 443 Field Study of Wine Grape Production

Plant Science

APBI 318 Applied Plant Breeding
APBI 324 Intro to Seed Plant Taxonomy
APBI 426 Plant-Microbe Interactions
APBI 440 Plant Genomics
APBI 475 Indigenous Ecologies
BIOL 200* or BIOL 201* Fundamentals of Cell Biology or Introduction to Biochemistry
BIOL 260 Fundamentals of Physiology
BIOL 352 Plant Physiology II: Plant Development
CHEM 233 Organic Chemistry for the Biological Sciences
CHEM 235 Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Genetics (one of BIOL 233 Genetics for Life; BIOL 234 Fundamentals of Genetics; FRST 302 Forest Genetics)

*If one is not taken as a requirement

Soil Science

APBI 342 Soil Biology
APBI 401 Soil Processes
APBI 403 Soil sampling, analysis and data interpretation (offered alternate years)
APBI 412 Below ground ecosystems

All Themes

APBI 365 Summer Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
APBI 398 Research Methods
APBI 422 Indigenous Food Systems in Canada
APBI 490 Topics in Applied Biology
APBI 497 Directed Studies
APBI 498 Undergraduate Essay
LFS 496 Career Development Internship

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 222 Introduction to Horticulture
APBI 326 Introductory Plant Pathology
APBI 413 Stress and Coping in Animals
APBI 417 Production & Postharvest Physiology of Vegetable Crops
APBI 462 Conservation Agriculture and Biodiversity Monitoring
APBI 495 Human Wildlife Conflict
BIOL 233 Genetics for Life