LFS:Restricted Electives/SAGE

Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Major

These themes are provided to support students in choosing restricted electives that allow them to pursue particular interests. Students are encouraged to take courses across different themes.

As you plan your courses, please note that some courses are offered in alternate years, have prerequisites, or are credit excluded from one another. While some guiding information is provided below, please be sure to contact your Program Advisor Dan Naidu (apbi.advising@ubc.ca) for additional support.

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).

If a student intends to pursue a professional designation after graduation, such as BCIA’s Professional Agrologist, or CoAB’s Registered Professional Biologist, they are encouraged to consult the professional organization's course requirements for application. Note that both organizations have student membership at no or low cost that students are encouraged to explore. Students can also find additional guidance regarding this by contacting their Program Advisor.

Agroecology

• APBI_V 361 Key Indicators of Agroecosystem Sustainability
• APBI_V 423 Ecological Restoration
• APBI_V 460 Agroecology III: Synthesis and evaluation
• APBI_V 462 Conservation Agriculture and Biodiversity Monitoring (offered in alternate years - see program advisor for dates)
• APBI_V 463 Insects in Agroecosystems

Animal Systems

• APBI_V 414 Animals and Global Issues

Crop Systems

• APBI_V 318 Applied Plant Breeding
• APBI_V 322 Horticultural Techniques (not currently offered)
• APBI_V 328 Weed Science
• APBI_V 405 Plant-Water Relations for Sustainable Agriculture
• APBI_V 442  Wine Grape and Berry Biology (offered in alternate years - see program advisor for dates)
• APBI_V 443 Field Study of Wine Grape Production  (offered in alternate years - see program advisor for dates)*
• APBI_V 444 Agroforestry

Entomology

• APBI_V 327 Introduction to Entomology
• APBI_V 406 Pollination Biology
• APBI_V 427 Insect Ecology
• APBI_V 428 Integrated Pest Management
• APBI_V 462 Conservation Agriculture and Biodiversity Monitoring (offered in alternate years - see program advisor for dates)*
• APBI_V 463 Insects in Agroecosystems

Land Systems            

• APBI_V 365 Summer Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems*
• APBI_V 422 Indigenous Food Systems in Canada
• APBI_V 423 Ecological Restoration
• APBI_V 475 Indigenous Ecologies
• APBI_V 490F Soils and Landscapes*
• LFS_V 450 Land, Food and Community III**

Plant Science

• APBI_V 318 Applied Plant Breeding
• APBI_V 324 Introduction to Seed Plant Taxonomy
• APBI_V 328 Weed Science
• APBI_V 426 Plant-Microbe Interactions
• APBI_V 440 Plant Genomics

Soil Science

• APBI_V 342 Soil Biology
• APBI_V 401 Soil Processes
• APBI_V 403 Soil Sampling, Analyses and Data Interpretation *
• APBI_V 412 Belowground Ecosystems
• APBI_V 490F Soils and Landscapes*

Multiple Themes

• APBI_V 290 Introductory Topics in Applied Biology***
• APBI_V 398 Research Methods in Applied Biology
• APBI_V 490 Advanced Topics in Applied Biology ***
• APBI_V 497 Directed Studies**
• APBI_V 498 Undergraduate Essay**
• LFS_V 496 Career Development in Land and Food Systems**

*      Courses that are primarily field based (i.e. significant portion to majority of the course involves outdoor experiential learning in the field)

**    Courses that are primarily or significantly self-directed studies

*** Topics course offerings change every year.  Consult your program advisor.

Non-APBI or LFS courses that can be used as Restricted Electives

• Biology
  • BIOL_V 205 Comparative Invertebrate Zoology
  • BIOL_V 204 Vertebrate Structure and Function
  • BIOL_V 260 Fundamentals of Physiology; BIOL_V 352 Plant Physiology II: Plant Development)

• Chemistry
  • CHEM_V 233 Organic Chemistry for the Biological Sciences
  • CHEM 235_V Organic Chemistry Laboratory

• Climate Change
  • GEOS_V 102 Our Changing Environment: Climate & Ecosystems
  • CONS_V 210 Visualizing Climate Change

• Conservation
  • CONS_V 101 Introduction to Conservation
  • CONS_V 200 Foundations of Conservation

• Computation
  • CPSC_V 110 Computation, Programs, and Programming
  • EOSC_V 211 Computer Methods in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
  • GEOS_V 270 Geographic Information Science

• Economics, One of:
  • FRE_V 302 Small Business Management in Agri-food Industries OR
  • ECON_V 102 Principles of Macroeconomics OR
  • ECON_V 311 Principles of Macroeconomics (Note that ECON_V 102 and ECON_V 311 are equivalent)

• Genetics
  • BIOL_V 234 Fundamentals of Genetics
  • FRST_V 302 Forest Genetics

• Hydrology, One of:
  • EOSC_V 329 Groundwater Hydrology OR
  • FRST_V 385 Watershed Hydrology OR
  • GEOS_V 305 Introduction to Hydrology

• Landscapes, One of:
  • One of GEOS_V 103 Changing Environment: Water & Landscapes OR
  • EOSC_V 110 The Solid Earth: A Dynamic Planet

• No Longer Regularly Offered
  • APBI_V 222 Introduction to Horticulture
  • APBI_V 326 Introductory Plant Pathology
  • APBI_V 413 Stress and Coping in Animals
  • APBI_V 416 Compassion Conservation
  • APBI_V 417 Production & Postharvest Physiology of Vegetable Crops
  • APBI_V 495 Human Wildlife Conflict
  • BIOL_V 233 Genetics for Life