Nutritional Sciences (major declared in 2018W and beyond)

The following courses are eligible for meeting the Restricted Electives requirement for the Nutritional Sciences Major declared after 2017W. If you declared your major in 2017W or earlier, please contact LFS Student Services (lfs.advising@ubc.ca) for assistance in selecting Restricted Electives.

If you decide to take 100 or 200 level courses as your restricted electives, please ensure that you have a minimum of 45 credits of courses at 300 or higher overall, as this is a requirement for graduation.

Nutritional Sciences students, for support in exploring your restricted electives, please contact your Program Advisor, Candice Rideout through this contact request form.

ANTH 227 Introduction to Medical Anthropology
ANTH 429 Global Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts
BIOL 335 Molecular Genetics
BIOL 336 Fundamentals of Evolutionary Biology
BIOL 338 Introduction to Genomics
BIOL 346 Microbes and Society
ECON 234 Wealth and Poverty of Nations
ECON 255 Understanding Globalization
FMST 210 Family Context of Human Development
FMST 312 Parent-child Relationships
FMST 314 Relationship development
FMST 316 Human Sexuality
FNH 313 Food Microbiology
FNH 330 Introduction to Wine Science I
FNH 335 Introduction to Wine Science II
FNH 342 Critical Perspectives on Consumer Food Practices
FNH 355 International Nutrition
FNH 402 Functional Foods and Nutraceutical
FNH 403 Food Laws, Regulations and Quality Assurance
FNH 405 Microbiology of Food and Beverage Fermentation
FNH 413 Food Safety
FNH 415 Business Concepts in Food, Nutrition, and Health
FNH 455 Applied International Nutrition
FNH 472 Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
FNH 473 Applied Public Health Nutrition
FNH 474 Sport Nutrition
FNH 497 Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
FNH 499 Undergraduate Thesis
LFS 302 International Field Studies
LFS 340 First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants (3 credits)
LFS 400 Audio Storytelling
LFS 402 Living Language: Science and Society
LFS 450 Land, Food, and Community III
LFS 496 Career Development Internship
PHIL 333 Bio-Medical Ethics
POLI 364 International Organizations
PSYC 101 Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 102 Introduction to Developmental, Social, Personality, and Clinical Psychology
PSYC 314 Health Psychology
SOCI 200 Sociology of the Family
SOCI 240 Introduction to Social Interaction
SOCI 301 Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment
SOCI 342 Consumers and Consumption
SOCI 415 Theories of Family and Kinship
SOCI 425 Urban Sociology
SOCI 440 Economic Sociology
SPPH 300 Working in International Health
SPPH 400 Statistics for Health Research
SPPH 401 Health Care Ethics
SPPH 410 Improving Public Health

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.

ANTH 428 Medicine, Technology, Culture and Society
FNH 430 Enology and Wine Management
HESO 400 Sociocultural Determinants of Health
SOCI 324 Sociology of the Life Course
SOCI 444 Sociology of Aging
SPPH 200 Understanding the Sociocultural Determinants of the Health of Populations
SPPH 411 Violence Across the Lifespan