Restricted Electives List

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

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

Dietetics

If students are interested in other courses not on this list, they are encouraged to contact their Program Advisor, Xinyan Fan (xinyan.fan@ubc.ca).

Adult and Higher Education (ADHE)

• ADHE 327 Teaching Adults
• ADHE 329 Developing Short Courses, Workshops and Seminars
• ADHE 412 An Overview of Adult Education

African Studies (AFST)

• AFST 250 Introduction to African Studies

Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (AMNE)

• AMNE 301 The Technical Terms of Medicine and Biological Science (previously CLST 301)

Anthropology (ANTH)

• ANTH 210 Eating Culture
• ANTH 227 Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Asia Studies (ASIA)

• ASIA 101 Introduction to Modern Asia

Cellular, Anatomical and Physiological Sciences (CAPS)

• CAPS 391 Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy

Counselling Psychology (CNPS)

• CNPS 364 Family Education and Consultation

Commerce (COMR)

• COMM/COMR 280 Entrepreneurship
• COMM/COMR 329 Principles of Organizational Behaviour

English (ENGL)

• ENGL 301 Technical Writing

Family Studies (FMST)

• FMST 314 Relationship Development

Food, Nutrition and Health (FNH)

• FNH 313 Food Microbiology
• FNH 342 Critical Perspectives on Consumer Food Practices
• FNH 355 International Nutrition
• FNH 402 Functional Foods
• FNH 455 Applied International Nutrition
• FNH 472 Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
• FNH 474 Sport Nutrition
• FNH 477 Nutrition and Disease Prevention

First Nations and Indigenous Studies

• FNIS 100 Indigenous Foundations
• FNIS 210 Indigenous Politics and Self-Determination

Food and Resource Economics (FRE)

• FRE 340 International Agricultural Development

Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ)

• GRSJ 101 Introduction to Social Justice
• GRSJ 102 Global Issues in Social Justice
• GRSJ 200 Gender and Environmental Justice
• GRSJ 300 Intersectional Approaches to Thinking Gender
• GRSJ 301 Gender, Race and Indigeneity in Canada
• GRSJ 310 Gender, Race, Social Justice and Health

Kinesiology (KIN)

• KIN 313 Neuromuscular Integration of Human Movement (previously KIN 389)

Land and Food Systems (LFS)

• LFS 340 First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants
• LFS 400 Audio Storytelling
• LFS 450 Land, Food, and Community III: Leadership in Campus Food System Sustainability

Microbiology (MICB)

• MICB 212 Introductory Immunology and Virology (previously MICB 202)

Pharmacology and Therapeutics (PCTH)

• PCTH 201 Drugs and Society
• PCTH 325 Rational Basis of Drug Therapy

Psychology (PSYC)

• PSYC 314 Health Psychology

Sociology (SOCI)

• SOCI 102 Inequality and Social Change
• SOCI 303 Sociology of Migration
• SOCI 384 Sociology of Health and Illness

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH)

• SPPH 300 Working in International Health
• SPPH 301 Understanding the Sociocultural Determinants of the Health of Populations
• SPPH 381 Selected Topics
• SPPH 410 Improving Public Health: An Interprofessional Approach to Designing and Implementing Effective Interventions
• SPPH 481 Special Topics in Population and 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.

• APBI 322 Horticultural Techniques
• SOWK 451 Health Care Team Development
• SOWK 452 HIV Prevention and Care
• SPPH 406 Aging from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
• SPPH 408 Topics in Aboriginal Health: Community-based Learning Experience
• SPPH 411: Violence Across the Lifespan

The following courses are permitted for the Dual Degree in Food, Nutrition and Health and Education program as REs. For permission to take other REs, please contact your Program Advisors, Candice Rideout and Patricia Hingston by completing this online request form. Health Electives (HE) are marked with an asterisk (*). HEs may also be used as REs if all HE requirements have been met. Please contact Academic Advisor, Bre Jakobson with LFS Student Services (lfs.advising@ubc.ca) if you have questions about this.

18 credits of Restricted Electives Required

12 credits: Students must choose 3 credits from each of the following 4 themes

• Theme 1: Education
• Theme 2: Textile Studies
• Theme 3: Social Studies
• Theme 4: Topics related to Food, Nutrition & Health

6 credits: can be chosen from any of the themes, or any other Restricted Elective from the FNH General RE list

= 18 credits total, with a minimum of 12 credits at the upper-level

Theme 1: Education

Adult Education

• ADHE 327 (3) – Teaching Adults
• ADHE 329 (3) – Developing Short Courses, Workshops and Seminars
• ADHE 330 (3) – The Community Practice of Adult Education
• ADHE 412 (3) – An Overview of Adult Education

Counselling Psychology

• CNPS 362 (3) – Basic Interviewing Skills
• CNPS 363 (3) – Career Counselling
• CNPS 364 (3) – Family Education and Consultation
• CNPS 365 (3) – Introduction to Theories of Counselling
• CNPS 426 (3) – The Role of the Teacher in Guidance
• CNPS 427 (3) – Guidance: Planning and Decision-making
• CNPS 433 (3) – The Personal and Social Development of the Adult

Curriculum and Pedagogy

• EDCP 325 (3) – Approaches to Health Education
• EDCP 327 (3) – Special Topics in Health Education
• EDCP 329 (3) – Agriculture in the Classroom
• EDCP 408 (3) – Art, Education and Cultural Diversity
• EDCP 467 (3) – Practical Foods
• EDCP 493 (3) – Special Study in Home Economics: Food Studies
• EDCP 494 (3) – Special Study in Home Economics: Family Studies
• EDCP 498 (3) – Curriculum Inquiry in Home Economics Education

Education Psychology and Special Education

• EPSE 312 (3) – Introduction to the Study of Exceptional Children
• EPSE 316 (3) – Learning Disabilities (pre-req is EPSE 312)
• EPSE 320 (3) – Classroom Inclusion of Students who are Blind and Visually Impaired
• EPSE 403 (3) – Education of Students with Developmental Disabilities in Inclusive Settings
• EPSE 426 (3) – Classroom Inclusion of Students Who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• EPSE 436 (3) – Survey of Behaviour Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• EPSE 437 (3) – Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Behaviour Disorders
• EDSP449 (3) – Education of Students with Autism

Theme 2: Textile Studies

• EDCP 304 (6) – Textile Design and Pedagogical Approaches: Art Education
• EDCP 392 (3) Assessment and Evaluation in Textile Studies: Home Economics
• EDCP 404 (3) Visual Arts for Classroom Practice: Textile Design
• EDCP 492 (3) – Special Study in Home Economics: Textile Studies
• THTR 306 (3) – Costume Design I
• THTR 356 (3) – Costume Construction
• THTR 406 (3) – Costume Design II
• THTR 456 (3) – Costume Construction II
• SOCI 342 (3) – Consumers and Consumption
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University courses (for transfer credit, must get pre-approved Letter of Permission from LFS Student Services – please email Academic Advisor, Bre Jakobson, at lfs.advising@ubc.ca)
  • FSDP 9003, 9004, 9005, 9006, 9007, 9012, 9015, 9016, 9017, 9026, 9027, 9037, 9039 – each transfers to UBC as EDCP 4th (3 credits each)

Theme 3: Social Sciences

Family Studies

• All upper-level FMST
• FMST 312 (3) – Parent-child Relationships
• FMST 314 (3) – Relationship Development
• FMST 316 (3) – Human Sexuality
• FMST 441 (3) – Social Context of Child Development

Gender, Race and Social Justice

• GRSJ 305 (3) – Social Justice Issues in Community and International Organizing
• GRSJ 310* (3) – Gender, Race, Social Justice and Health

Psychology

• PSYC 300 (3/6) – Abnormal Psychology
• PSYC 301* (3) – Brain Dysfunction and Recovery
• PSYC 302 (3) – Infancy
• PSYC 304 (3/6) – Brain and Behaviour
• PSYC 305 (3/6) – Personality Psychology
• PSYC 307 (3) – Cultural Psychology
• PSYC 308 (3/6) – Social Psychology
• PSYC 309 (3/6) – Cognitive Processes
• PSYC 314* (3) – Health Psychology
• PSYC 315 (3) – Childhood and Adolescence
• PSYC 319 (3) – Applied Developmental Psychology
• PSYC 322 (3) – Adulthood and Aging
• PSYC 361 (3) – Neuroscience of Motivation
• PSYC 365* (3) – Cognitive Neurosciences
• PSYC 367 (3) – Sensory Systems

Sociology

• SOCI 301 (3) – Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment
• SOCI 302 (3) – Ethnic and Racial Inequality
• SOCI 320 (3) – Diversity in Family Forms
• SOCI 324 (3) – Sociology of the Life Course
• SOCI 344* (3) – Sociology of Aging
• SOCI 354 (3) – Community Studies
• SOCI 361 (3) – Social Inequality
• SOCI 384* (3) – Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOCI 415 (3/6) – Theories of Family and Kinship
• SOCI 420 (3) – Sociology of the Environment
• SOCI 423 (3) – Sociology of Food
• SOCI 425 (3) – Urban Sociology
• SOCI 440 (3) – Economic Sociology
• SOCI 473* (3) – Sociology of Mental Illness
• SOCI 479* (3) – Social Determinants of Health

Economics & Resource Studies

• ECON 317 (3) – Poverty and Inequality
• ECON 335 (3) – Fertility, Families and Human Migration
• FRE 490 (3) – Current Issues in Food and Resource Economics

Theme 4: Topics related to Food, Nutrition & Health

• All upper level APBI, BIOC, BIOL, CHEM, FNH and MICB courses EXCEPT courses that are required for your program.

• CAPS 301* (6) – Human Physiology
• CAPS 390* (3) – Introduction to Microscopic Human Anatomy
• CAPS 391* (3) – Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy
• ENVR 300 (3) – Introduction to Research in Environmental Sciences
• FNH 370* (3) – Nutrition Assessment
• FNH 371* (3) – Human Nutrition Over the Life Span
• FNH 398* (3) – Research Methods in Human Nutrition
• FNH 402* (3) – Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
• FNH 413* (3) – Food Safety
• FNH 472* (3) - Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
• FNH 473* (3) – Applied Public Health Nutrition
• FNH 477* (3) – Nutrition and Disease Prevention
• FNH 497* (2-6) – Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH 499* (6) – Undergraduate Thesis
• HESO 400* (3/6) – Sociocultural Determinants of Health
• KIN 303 (3) - High Performance Conditioning in Physical Activity and Sport
• KIN 351 (3) - Biomechanics II Mechanical Properties of Tissues
• KIN 361 (3) - Introduction to Athletic Training
• KIN 373 (3) - Research Methods in Kinesiology
• KIN 375 (3) - Exercise Physiology II
• KIN 425* (3) – Aging, Health, and the Body
• KIN 461 (3) – Prevention of Sports Injuries I
• KIN 464* (3) – Health Promotion and Physical Activity
• KIN 465* (3) – Interculturalism, Health and Physical Activity
• KIN 469* (3) – Chronic Health Issues, Physical Activity and Community Practice
• KIN 471 (3) – Prevention of Sports Injuries II
• LFS 340 (3) – First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants
• LFS 450 (3) – Land, Food, and Community III: Leadership in Campus Food System Sustainability
• SPPH 300* (3) – Working in International Health
• SPPH 301* (3) – Understanding the Sociocultural Determinants of the Health of Populations
• SPPH 302* (3) – Topics in Health Informatics for Health/Life Sciences Students
• SPPH 381* (3) – Selected Topics
• SPPH 404* (3) – First Nations Health: Historical and Contemporary Issues
• SPPH 410* (3) – Improving Public Health
• SPPH 411 (3) – Violence Across the Lifespan
• SPPH 481 (3) – Special Topics in Population and Public Health

Plan Ahead – make sure you have pre-requisite classes for third and fourth year REs (restricted electives) that you wish to take.

Please consult the credit exclusion list when choosing REs: http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,215,410,414

This list contains courses with sufficient overlap that credit may be obtained for only one of the courses.

The following courses are permitted for FNH, Food Science or Food and Nutritional Sciences Double Major students who declared their major in 2021W or earlier as REs UNLESS the course is required for your program. For permission to take other REs, please contact your Program Advisors, Candice Rideout and Patricia Hingston by completing this online request form. Health Electives (HE) are marked with an asterisk (*). HEs may also be used as REs if all HE requirements have been met. Please note that students who chose their major prior to 2017W are not required to take any HEs, as HEs are a new degree requirement. Please contact an Academic Advisor with LFS Student Services (lfs.advising@ubc.ca) if you have questions about this.

2nd Year Restricted Electives

• ANTH100 (3/4) – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH201 (3) Ethnic Relations
• ANTH202 (3/6) – Contemporary Social Problems
• ANTH217 (3) – Culture and Communication
• ANTH210 (3) – Eating Culture
• ANTH220 (3) – First Nations of British Columbia
• APBI260 (6) – Agroecology I: Introduction to principles and techniques
• APBI265 (3) – Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
• APBI290 (3) – Introductory Topics in Applied Biology
• BIOC202 (3) – Introductory Medical Biochemistry
• BIOC203 (3) – Fundamentals of Biochemistry
• BIOL204 (4) – Vertebrate Structure and Function
• BIOL205 (4) – Comparative Invertebrate Zoology
• BIOL230 (3) – Fundamentals of Ecology
• BIOL233 (3) – Genetics for Life
• BIOL234 (3) – Fundamentals of Genetics
• BIOL260 (3) – Fundamentals of Physiology
• CHBE230 (3) – Computational Methods
• CHBE241 (3) – Material and Energy Balances
• CHBE251 (3) – Transport Phenomena I
• CHEM205 (3) – Physical Chemistry
• CHEM211 (4) – Introduction to Chemical Analysis
• ECON101 (3) – Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON102 (3) – Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON221 (3) – Introduction to Strategic Thinking
• ECON226 (3) - Making Sense of Economic Data
• ECON234 (3) - Wealth and Poverty of Nations
• ECON255 (3) - Understanding Globalization
• ENVR200 (3) – Introduction to Environmental Science
• FNH290 (3) – Introductory Topics in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FMST210 (3) – Family Context of Human Development
• FRE295 (3) – Managerial Economics
• KIN 110 – Human Anatomy
• KIN 131 – Systems Physiology I
• KIN 132 – Systems Physiology II
• KIN 140 – Lifespan Motor Development
• KIN 150 – Sport and Exercise Psychology
• KIN 205 – Research Methods in Kinesiology
• KIN 211 – Human Motor Behaviour I
• KIN 235 – Exercise Physiology I
• KIN 262 – Health Policy and Society
• MICB201 (3) -Introduction to Environmental Microbiology
• MICB202 (3) – Introductory Medical Microbiology and Immunology
• MICB203 (3) – Basic Microbiology Laboratory
• PCTH201 (3) – Drugs and Society
• PHYS117 (3) – Dynamics and Waves
• PHYS118 (3) – Electricity, Light and Radiation
• PHYS119 (3) – Experimental Physics Lab I
• PHYS131 (3) – Energy and Waves
• PHYS153 (6) – Elements of Physics
• PSYC100 (6) – Introductory Psychology
• PSYC101 (3) – Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• PSYC102 (3) – Introduction to Developmental, Social, Personality and Clinical Psychology
• PSYC207 (3) - Contemporary Topics in Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• PSYC208 (3) - Contemporary Topics in Social, Developmental, Personality, and Clinical Psychology
• PSYC216 (3) - Questioning Psychological Science in the Media
• PSYC217 (3) - Research Methods
• PSYC218 (3) - Analysis of Behavioural Data
• PSYC270 (3) - Introduction to Behavioural Neuroscience
• PSYC277 (3) - Behavioural and Neuroscientific Research Methods
• PSYC278 (3) - Analysis of Behavioural and Neuroscientific Data
• SOCI100 (6) – Introduction to Sociology
• SOCI101 (3) – Social Interaction and Culture
• SOCI102 (3) – Inequality and Social Change
• SOCI200 (3) – Sociology of Family
• SOCI201 (3) – Ethnic Relations
• SOCI210 (3) – Canadian Social Structure
• SOCI240 (3) – Introduction to Social Interaction

3rd and 4th Year (upper level) Restricted Electives (except those that are required courses). All upper level APBI, BIOC, BIOL, CHEM, FNH and MICB courses.

• ADHE327 (3) – Teaching Adults
• ADHE329 (3) – Developing Short Courses, Workshops and Seminars
• ADHE330 (3) – The Community Practice of Adult Education
• ADHE412 (3) – An Overview of Adult Education
• AMNE301/CLST301 – The Technical Terms of Medicine and Biological Science
• ANTH316 (3/6) – Political Anthropology
• ANTH329 (3/6) – Contemporary First Nations Issues
• ANTH330 (3) – Anthropology of Rural Peoples in the Global Economy
• ANTH407 (3) – Principles of Field Work
• ANTH428 (3) – Medicine, Technology, Culture and Society
• ANTH429 (3) – Global Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts
• CAPS301* (6) – Human Physiology
• CAPS390* (3) – Introduction to Microscopic Human Anatomy
• CAPS391* (3) – Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy
• CHBE344 (3) – Unit Operations I
• CHBE345 (3) – Unit Operations II
• CNPS362 (3) – Basic Interviewing Skills
• CNPS363 (3) – Career Counselling
• CNPS364 (3) – Family Education and Consultation
• CNPS365 (3) – Introduction to Theories of Counselling
• ECON302 (3) - Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis I
• ECON303 (3) - Intermediate Microeconomics II
• ECON310 (3) – Principles of Microeconomics (equivalent to ECON101)
• ECON311 (3) – Principles of Macroeconomics (equivalent to ECON102)
• ECON317 (3) – Poverty and Inequality
• ECON325 (3) - Introduction to Empirical Economics
• ECON326 (3) - Methods of Empirical Research in Economics
• ECON335 (3) – Fertility, Families and Human Migration
• ECED 407 (3) – Supporting the Early Learning in the Pre-School Years
• EDCP493 (3) – Special Study in Home Economics: Food Studies
• EDCP494 (3) - Special Study in Home Economics: Family Studies
• ENVR300 (3) – Introduction to Research in Environmental Sciences
• EPSE312 (3) – Introduction to the Study of Exceptional Children
• EPSE320 (3) – Classroom Inclusion of Students who are Blind and Visually Impaired
• EPSE436 (3) – Survey of Behaviour Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• EPSE 437 (3) – Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Behaviour Disorders
• FMST 312 (3) – Parent-child Relationships
• FMST314 (3) – Relationship Development
• FMST316 (3) – Human Sexuality
• FMST441 (3) – Social Context of Child Development
• FNH370* (3) – Nutrition Assessment
• FNH371* (3) – Human Nutrition Over the Life Span
• FNH398* (3) – Research Methods in Human Nutrition
• FNH402* (3) – Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
• FNH413* (3) – Food Safety
• FNH472* (3) - Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
• FNH473* (3) – Applied Public Health Nutrition
• FNH477* (3) – Nutrition and Disease Prevention
• FNH497* (2-6) – Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH499* (6) – Undergraduate Thesis
• FRE302 (3) – Small Business Management in Agri-food Industries
• FRE306 (3) – Introduction to Global Food Markets
• FRE340 (3) – International Agricultural Development
• FRE374 (3) – Land and Resource Economics
• FRE385 (3) – Quantitative Methods for Business and Resource Management
• FRE420 (3) – The Economics of International Trade and the Environment
• FRE490 (3) – Current Issues in Food and Resource Economics
• FRST430 (3) – Advanced Biometrics
• GRSJ305 (3) – Social Justice Issues in Community and International Organizing
• GRSJ310* (3) – Gender, Race, Social Justice and Health
• HESO400* (3/6) – Sociocultural Determinants of Health
• KIN 320 – Exercise Testing and Prescription
• KIN 322 – Introduction to Athletic Training
• KIN 335 – Advanced Applications of Exercise Physiology
• KIN 351 – Biomechanical Properties of Tissues
• KIN 420 – Prevention of Sports Injuries
• KIN 424 – Medical Aspects of Sport and Exercise
• KIN 460* – Aging, Health, and Society
• KIN 464* – Health Promotion and Physical Activity
• KIN 465* – Interculturalism, Health and Physical Activity
• LFS302 (3/6) – International Field Studies
• LFS340 (3) – First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants
• LFS400 (3) – Audio Storytelling
• LFS450 (3) – Land, Food, and Community III: Leadership in Campus Food System Sustainability
• LFS496 (3/6) – Career Development Internship
• PATH375* (3) – Introduction to Human Pathology
• PCTH325* (3) – Rational Basis of Drug Therapy
• PHIL333* (3/4) – Bio-Medical Ethics
• PLAN321 (3) – Indigeneity and the City
• POLI350 (3/6) – Public Policy
• POLI352 (3/6) – Comparative Politics of Public Policy
• POLI363 (3/6) – Canadian Foreign Policy
• POLI364 (3/6) – International Organizations
• POLI366 (3) – International Political Economy
• POLI367 (3/6) – International Relations Theory and the International System
• POLI369 (3/6) – Issues in International Security
• PSYC300 (3/6) – Abnormal Psychology
• PSYC301* (3) – Brain Dysfunction and Recovery
• PSYC302 (3) - Infancy
• PSYC304 (3/6) – Brain and Behaviour
• PSYC305 (3/6) – Personality Psychology
• PSYC306 (3/6) – Principles of Animal Behaviour
• PSYC307 (3) – Cultural Psychology
• PSYC308 (3/6) – Social Psychology
• PSYC309 (3/6) – Cognitive Processes
• PSYC311 (3) – Psychology of Sport
• PSYC314* (3) – Health Psychology
• PSYC315 (3) – Childhood and Adolescence
• PSYC319 (3) – Applied Developmental Psychology
• PSYC322 (3) – Adulthood and Aging
• PSYC360 (3) - Biopsychology
• PSYC361 (3) – Neuroscience of Motivation
• PSYC365* (3) – Cognitive Neurosciences
• PSYC367 (3) – Sensory Systems
• SOCI301 (3) – Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment
• SOCI302 (3) – Ethnic and Racial Inequality
• SOCI324 (3) – Sociology of the Life Course
• SOCI342 (3) – Consumers and Consumption
• SOCI344* (3) – Sociology of Aging
• SOCI360 (3) – Sociology and Natural Resources
• SOCI361 (3) – Social Inequality
• SOCI384* (3) – Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOCI415 (3/6) – Theories of Family and Kinship
• SOCI420 (3) – Sociology of the Environment
• SOCI423(3) – Sociology of Food
• SOCI425 (3) – Urban Sociology
• SOCI440 (3) – Economic Sociology
• SOCI473* (3) – Sociology of Mental Illness
• SOCI479* (3) – Social Determinants of Health
• SOWK452* (6) – HIV Prevention and Care
• STAT300 (3) – Intermediate Statistics for Applications
• SPPH300* (3) – Working in International Health
• SPPH301* (3) – Understanding the Sociocultural Determinants of the Health of Populations
• SPPH302* (3) – Topics in Health Informatics for Health/Life Sciences Students
• SPPH381* (3) – Selected Topics
• SPPH404* (3) – First Nations Health: Historical and Contemporary Issues
• SPPH410* (3) – Improving Public Health
• SPPH411 (3) – Violence Across the Lifespan
• SPPH481 (3) – Special Topics in Population and Public Health

FNH General (major declared in 2022W and beyond)

Plan Ahead – make sure you have pre-requisite classes for third and fourth year REs (restricted electives) that you wish to take.

Please consult the credit exclusion list when choosing REs: http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,215,410,414

This list contains courses with sufficient overlap that credit may be obtained for only one of the courses.

The following courses are eligible for meeting the Restricted Electives requirement for the Food, Nutrition, and Health Major declared after 2022W. Health Electives (HE) are marked with an asterisk (*). HEs may also be used as REs if all HE requirements have been met.

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.

Food, Nutrition, and Health students, for support in exploring your restricted electives, please contact your Program Advisors, Candice Rideout and Patricia Hingston by completing this online request form.

Food Science

• FNH 300 Food Engineering
• FNH 301 Food Chemistry
• FNH 302 Food Analysis
• FNH 303 Food Product Development
• FNH 309 Food Processing
• FNH 330 Introduction to Wine Science I
• FNH 335 Introduction to Wine Science II
• FNH 402* Functional Foods
• FNH 404 Food Safety and Quality Management
• FNH 405 Microbiology of Food and Beverage Fermentation
• FNH 413* Food Safety
• FNH 414 Sustainability in the Food Industry
• FNH 419 Interfacial Phenomena
• FNH 497 Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH 499 Undergraduate Thesis

Nutrition

• FNH 342 Critical Perspectives on Consumer Food Practices
• FNH 355* International Nutrition
• FNH 370* Nutrition Assessment
• FNH 371* Human Nutrition Over The Life Span
• FNH 398 Research Methods in Human Nutrition
• FNH 451* Nutrient Metabolism and Implications for Health
• FNH 455 Applied International Nutrition
• FNH 472* Maternal and Fetal Nutrition
• FNH 473* Applied Public Health Nutrition
• FNH 474 Sport Nutrition
• FNH 477* Nutrition and Disease Prevention
• FNH 490 Advanced Topics in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH 497 Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH 499 Undergraduate Thesis

Kinesiology

• KIN 140 Lifespan Motor Development
• KIN 150 Sport and Exercise Psychology
• KIN 211 Human Motor Behaviour I
• KIN 232 Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Health
• KIN 235 Exercise Physiology I
• KIN 262 Health Policy and Society
• KIN 424 Medical Aspects of Sport and Exercise
• KIN 432 Sport Nutrition
• KIN 464* Health Promotion and Physical Activity
• KIN 465* Interculturalism, Health and Physical Activity
• PHTH 301* Physical Therapy Foundations

Sustainability

• APBI 265 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
• APBI 361 Key Indicators of Agroecosystem Sustainability
• ASIC 220 Introduction to Sustainability
• ENST 310/GEOG 310 Environment and Sustainability
• LFS 450 Land, Food, and Community III: Leadership in Campus Food System Sustainability

Business

• FNH 415 Business Concepts in Food, Nutrition, and Health
• FRE 295 Managerial Economics
• FRE 302 Small Business Management in Agri-food Industries
• FRE 306 Introduction to Global Food Markets
• FRE 326 Empirical Methods for Food and Resource Economics
• FRE 340 International Agricultural Development
• FRE 374 Land and Resource Economics
• FRE 385 Quantitative Methods for Business and Resource Management
• FRE 420 The Economics of International Trade and the Environment
• FRE 460 Economics of Food Consumption
• FRE 490 Current Issues in Food and Resource Economics
• COMR 329 Principles of Organizational Behaviour
• COMR 398 Introduction to Business Processes and Operations
• COMR 457 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
• COMR 458 Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting
• COMR 465 Marketing Management
• COMR 473 Business Finance
• COMR 485 Social Entrepreneurship
• COMR 493 Strategic Management in Business
• COMM 320 Foundations in Accounting I
• COMM 321 Organizational Behaviour
• COMM 420 Marketing
• COMM 421 Introductory Finance
• ECON 101 Principles of Microeconomics (equivalent to ECON 310 and LFS 101)
• ECON 102 Principles of Macroeconomics (equivalent to ECON 311)
• ECON 221 Introduction to Strategic Thinking
• ECON 226 Making Sense of Economic Data
• ECON 234 Wealth and Poverty of Nations
• ECON 255 Understanding Globalization
• ECON 301 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis I

Public Health

• KIN 262 Health Policy and Society
• LFS 340* First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants
• NURS 180 Stress and Strategies to Promote Wellbeing
• NURS 270 Diverse Perspectives on Aging
• SPPH 300* Working in International Health
• SPPH 301* Understanding the Sociocultural Determinants of the Health of Populations
• SPPH 302* Topics in Health Informatics for Health/Life Sciences Students
• SPPH 381* Selected Topics
• SPPH 404* Indigenous Health: Historical and Contemporary Issues
• SPPH 410* Improving Public Health: An Interprofessional Approach to Designing and Implementing Effective Interventions
• SPPH 481* Special Topics in Population and Public Health

Science

• BIOC 302 General Biochemistry
• BIOC 402 Proteins: Structure and Function
• BIOL 204 Vertebrate Structure and Function
• BIOL 205 Comparative Invertebrate Zoology
• BIOL 209 Biodiversity of Algae, Fungi and Bryophytes
• BIOL 210 Vascular Plants
• BIOL 323 Structure and Reproduction of Fungi
• BIOL 230 Fundamentals of Ecology
• BIOL 234 Fundamentals of Genetics
• BIOL 260 Fundamentals of Physiology
• BIOL 335 Molecular Genetics
• BIOL 343 Plants and Peoples
• BIOL 346 Microbes and Society
• BIOL 421 Plant-Microbe Interactions
• CAPS 390* Introduction to Microscopic Human Anatomy
• CAPS 391* Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy
• CHEM 205 Physical Chemistry
• CHEM 208 Coordination Chemistry
• CHEM 211 Introduction to Chemical Analysis
• CHEM 213 Organic Chemistry
• CHEM 301 Aqueous Environmental Chemistry
• CHEM 304 Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
• CHEM 305 Biophysical Chemistry
• CHEM 311 Instrumental Analytical Chemistry
• CHEM 330 Advanced Organic Chemistry
• CHEM 341 Global Challenges: A Chemical Perspective
• CPSC 100 Computational Thinking
• CPSC 103 Introduction to Systematic Program Design
• CPSC 110 Computation, Programs, and Programming
• DSCI 100 Introduction to Data Science
• ENVR 200 Introduction to Environmental Science
• MICB 203 Basic Microbiology Laboratory
• MICB 211 Foundations of Microbiology (previously MICB 201)
• MICB 212 Introductory Immunology and Virology (previously MICB 202)
• MICB 301 Microbial Ecophysiology
• MICB 306 Molecular Virology
• MICB 308 Paradigms in Bacterial Pathogenesis
• MICB 325 Analysis of Microbial Genes and Genomes
• PATH 375* Introduction to Human Pathology
• PATH 417* Human Bacterial Infections
• PCTH 201 Drugs and Society
• PCTH 325* Rational Basis of Drug Therapy
• PHIL 333 Bio-Medical Ethics
• PHYS 117 Dynamics and Waves
• PHYS 118 Electricity, Light and Radiation
• PHYS 131 Energy and Waves

Math, Engineering, and Statistics

• APSC 366 The Art of the Possible: An Introduction to Engineering for Non-Engineers
• DSCI 100 Introduction to Data Science
• MATH 200 Calculus III
• MATH 221 Matrix Algebra
• STAT 300 Intermediate Statistics for Applications
• MATH 302/STAT 302 Introduction to Probability

Social Science

• AMNE 301 The Technical Terms of Medicine and Biological Science (previously CLST 301)
• ANTH 100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 201 Ethnic Relations
• ANTH 202 Contemporary Social Problems
• ANTH 210 Eating Culture
• ANTH 217 Culture and Communication
• ANTH 220 First Nations of British Columbia
• ANTH 227 Introduction to Medical Anthropology
• ANTH 429* Global Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts
• ANTH 437 Gardens of Culture: The Anthropology of Food Systems
• APBI 260 Agroecology I: Introduction to principles and techniques
• APBI 290 Introductory Topics in Applied Biology
• FMST 210 Family Context of Human Development
• FMST 312 Parent-child Relationships
• FMST 314 Relationship Development
• FMST 316* Human Sexuality
• GRSJ 310* Gender, Race, Social Justice and Health
• LFS 302 International Field Studies
• LFS 400 Audio Storytelling
• LFS 496 Career Development Practicum
• PSYC 100 Introductory Psychology
• PSYC 101 Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• PSYC 102 Introduction to Developmental, Social, Personality and Clinical Psychology
• PSYC 207 Contemporary Topics in Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• PSYC 208 Contemporary Topics in Social, Developmental, Personality, and Clinical Psychology
• PSYC 216 Questioning Psychological Science in the Media
• PSYC 304 Brain and Behaviour
• PSYC 305 Personality Psychology
• PSYC 314* Health Psychology
• PSYC 322 Adulthood and Aging
• PSYC 367 Sensory Systems
• SOCI 101 Social Interaction and Culture
• SOCI 102 Inequality and Social Change
• SOCI 200 Sociology of Family
• SOCI 201 Ethnic Relations
• SOCI 220 Sociology of Indigenous Peoples
• SOCI 240 Introduction to Social Interaction
• SOCI 320 Diversity in Family Forms
• SOCI 342 Consumers and Consumption
• SOCI 360 Sociology and Natural Resources
• SOCI 382 Sociological Methods: Qualitative Research
• SOCI 384* Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOCI 423 Sociology of Food
• SOCI 479* Social Determinants of Health

Education

• ADHE 327 Teaching Adults
• ADHE 329 Developing Short Courses, Workshops and Seminars
• ADHE 330 The Community Practice of Adult Education
• CNPS 363 Career Counselling
• CNPS 364 Family Education and Consultation
• CNPS 433 The Personal and Social Development of the Adult
• EDCP 494 Special Study in Home Economics: Family Studies
• EPSE 406 Typical and Atypical Development in Infants and Children

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.

• HESO 400* Sociocultural Determinants of Health
• KIN 321* Chronic Health Issues and Physical Activity
• KIN 460* Aging, Health, and Society
• SOCI 210 Canadian Social Structure

Food Science or Food and Nutritional Sciences Double Major (major declared in 2022W and beyond)

Plan Ahead – make sure you have pre-requisite classes for third and fourth year REs (restricted electives) that you wish to take.

Please consult the credit exclusion list when choosing REs: http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,215,410,414

This list contains courses with sufficient overlap that credit may be obtained for only one of the courses.

The following courses are eligible for meeting the Restricted Electives requirement for the Food Science Major or the Food and Nutritional Sciences Major declared after 2022W. Food Science Electives are marked with an asterisk (*). Food Science Electives may also be used as REs if all Food Science Elective requirements have been met.

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.

Food Science and Double Major students, for support in exploring your restricted electives, please contact your Program Advisor, Patricia Hingston through this contact request form.

Food Science

• FNH 330* Introduction to Wine Science I
• FNH 335* Introduction to Wine Science II
• FNH 402* Functional Foods
• FNH 405* Microbiology of Food and Beverage Fermentation
• FNH 413* Food Safety
• FNH 414* Sustainability in the Food Industry
• FNH 419* Interfacial Phenomena
• FNH 497* Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH 499* Undergraduate Thesis

Nutrition

• FNH 342 Critical Perspectives on Consumer Food Practices
• FNH 350 Fundamentals of Nutrition
• FNH 351 Vitamins, Minerals, and Health
• FNH 355 International Nutrition
• FNH 370 Nutrition Assessment
• FNH 371 Human Nutrition Over The Life Span
• FNH 398 Research Methods in Human Nutrition
• FNH 473 Applied Public Health Nutrition
• FNH 490 Advanced Topics in Food Nutrition, and Health
• FNH 497 Directed Studies in Food, Nutrition and Health
• FNH 499 Undergraduate Thesis

Sustainability

• APBI 265 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
• APBI 361 Key Indicators of Agroecosystem Sustainability
• ASIC 220 Introduction to Sustainability
• ENST 310/GEOG 310 Environment and Sustainability
• LFS 450 Land, Food, and Community III: Leadership in Campus Food System Sustainability

Business

• FNH 415 Business Concepts in Food, Nutrition, and Health
• FRE 302 Small Business Management in Agri-food Industries
• FRE 306 Introduction to Global Food Markets
• FRE 326 Empirical Methods for Food and Resource Economics
• FRE 340 International Agricultural Development
• FRE 374 Land and Resource Economics
• FRE 385 Quantitative Methods for Business and Resource Management
• FRE 420 The Economics of International Trade and the Environment
• FRE 460 Economics of Food Consumption
• FRE 490 Current Issues in Food and Resource Economics
• COMR 329 Principles of Organizational Behaviour
• COMR 398 Introduction to Business Processes and Operations
• COMR 457 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
• COMR 458 Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting
• COMR 465 Marketing Management
• COMR 473 Business Finance
• COMR 485 Social Entrepreneurship
• ECON 226 Making Sense of Economic Data
• ECON 301 Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis I
• ECON 310 Principles of Microeconomics (equivalent to ECON101 and LFS 101)
• ECON 311 Principles of Macroeconomics (equivalent to ECON102)
• COMM 320 Foundations in Accounting I
• COMM 321 Organizational Behaviour
• COMM 420 Marketing
• COMM 421 Introductory Finance

Science

• BIOC 402 Proteins: Structure and Function
• BIOL 209 Biodiversity of Algae, Fungi and Bryophytes
• BIOL 210 Vascular Plants
• BIOL 323 Structure and Reproduction of Fungi
• BIOL 234 Fundamentals of Genetics
• BIOL 335 Molecular Genetics
• BIOL 343 Plants and Peoples
• BIOL 421 Plant-Microbe Interactions
• CHEM 208 Coordination Chemistry
• CHEM 211 Introduction to Chemical Analysis
• CHEM 213 Organic Chemistry
• CHEM 301 Aqueous Environmental Chemistry
• CHEM 304 Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
• CHEM 305 Biophysical Chemistry
• CHEM 311 Instrumental Analytical Chemistry
• CHEM 330 Advanced Organic Chemistry
• CHEM 341 Global Challenges: A Chemical Perspective
• CPSC 100 Computational Thinking
• CPSC 103 Introduction to Systematic Program Design
• CPSC 110 Computation, Programs, and Programming
• DSCI 100 Introduction to Data Science
• ENVR 200 Introduction to Environmental Science
• MICB 212 Introductory Immunology and Virology
• MICB 301 Microbial Ecophysiology
• MICB 306 Molecular Virology
• MICB 308 Paradigms in Bacterial Pathogenesis
• MICB 325 Analysis of Microbial Genes and Genomes
• PHYS 118 Electricity, Light, and Radiation

Math, Engineering and Statistics

• APSC 366 The Art of the Possible: An Introduction to Engineering for Non-Engineers
• DSCI 100 Introduction to Data Science
• MATH 200 Calculus III
• MATH 221 Matrix Algebra
• STAT 300 Intermediate Statistics for Applications
• MATH 302/STAT 302 Introduction to Probability

LFS

• APBI 260 Agroecology I: Introduction to principles and techniques
• APBI 290 Introductory Topics in Applied Biology
• LFS 302 International Field Studies
• LFS 340 First Nations Health and the Traditional Role of Plants
• LFS 496 Career Development Practicum

Social Sciences

• ANTH 437 Gardens of Culture: The Anthropology of Food Systems
• PSYC 367 Sensory Systems
• SOCI 342 Consumers and Consumption
• SOCI 360 Sociology and Natural Resources
• SOCI 423 Sociology of Food
• SPPH 381 Selected Topics

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

This program has topic areas rather than majors. In third and fourth year you will take: (1) FRE Topic Courses; (2) Supporting Topic Courses; and (3) Restricted Electives.

The FRE Topic Courses are the full suite of FRE courses, excluding those which are required in your program. The Supporting Topic Courses are ECON and COMM/COMR courses which are related to your program of study in food and resource economics. The Restricted Electives consist of any 300 or 400 level FRE, ECON or COMM/COMR course. You will typically choose your Restricted Electives from the list of FRE Topic Courses and Supporting Topic Courses but you are not required to do so.

You are free to choose any course from the list of FRE Topic Courses below to fulfill this program requirement in your third and fourth year (see note 7 of the Degree Requirements in the UBC Calendar. Recommended courses for the three topic areas are listed below.

Similarly, you are free to choose any course from the list of Supporting Topic Courses below to fulfill this program requirment in your third and fourth year (see note 8 of the Degree Requirements in the UBC Calendar. Recommended courses for the three topic areas are listed below.

Restricted electives are described in note 9 of of the Degree Requirements in the UBC Calendar.

Choose any eligible 300 or 400 level course in COMR, ECON and FRE. Students with a strong interest in research should take FRST 399 and consider having a FRE faculty member supervise a directed studies course (FRE 497) and/or a 6 credit thesis (FRE 499).

Sustainable Food Systems Minor

This minor consists of LFS 350, 3 credits selected from APBI 465, LFS 450, or LFS 496, and 12 credits from 300- or 400-level courses selected from the list below. Students must have their course of studies approved by an Academic Advisor with LFS Student Services at lfs.advising@ubc.ca.

A minimum of one course from each set must be selected.

Set One

• APBI 314 Animals and Society
• APBI 315 Animal Welfare and the Ethics of Animal Use
• BIOL 343 Plants and Peoples
• EDCP 329 Agriculture in the Curriculum
• FNH 342 Critical Perspectives on Consumer Food Practices
• FNH 355 International Nutrition
• FNH 455 Applied International Nutrition
• SOCI 342 Consumers and Consumption
• SOCI 360A Sociology and Natural Resources - RESOURCES
• SOCI 423 Sociology of Food
• GEOG 410 Environment and Society

Set Two

• APBI 360 Agroecology II
• APBI 402 Sustainable Soil Management
• APBI 428 Integrated Pest Management
• APBI 444 Agroforestry
• ENVR 430 Ecological Dimensions of Sustainability
• ENVR 440 Analytical Methods in Sustainability Science
• FNH 313 Microorganisms in Food Systems
• FNH 309 Food Process Science
• GEOG 310 Environment and Sustainability
• GEOG 318 Sustainability in a Changing Environment

Set Three

• APBI 361 Key Indicators of Agroecosystem Sustainability
• APBI 414 Animals and Global Issues
• FNH 415 Business Concepts in Food, Nutrition, and Health
• FRE 302 Small Business Management in Agri-food Industries
• FRE 306 Introduction to Global Food Markets
• FRE 340 International Agricultural Development
• FRE 374 Land and Resource Economics
• FRE 460 Economics of Food Consumption
• GEOG 311 Urban Environments