Across UBC, our faculty members are teaching and studying sustainability through hundreds of courses, programs and research projects. We are committed to fostering the knowledge, skills and experience of students in order for them to serve as agents of change, community leaders, and responsible global citizens.
Courses
Use our course finder tool to explore more than 635 sustainability related courses at the undergraduate and graduate level that address environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability.
Featured Courses
GRSJ 305 Social Justice Issues in Community and International Organizing
Critical examination and practical applications of concepts, theories, methods, and strategies of...
HGSE 352 First Nations Governance and Natural Resource Management
The political, economic, and legal environment of Aboriginal-Canadian relations and its influence...
Degree programs
UBC offers more than 60 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs that allow you to specialize in a sustainability-related subject or area of interest.
At UBC, sustainability-related undergraduate programs include majors or minors offered by the...
UBC offers sustainability-related graduate programs through the Faculties of Allard School of Law,...
Research-based graduate programs are thesis-based and can include an M.Sc., M.A., or PhD. Follow...
For Faculty
**Applications for 2020 now open.** The Interdisciplinary Education Grant program provides funding...
Sustainability Fellowships are awarded to full-time UBC Vancouver faculty members who are leading...
UBC Sustainability Scholars Program
The UBC Sustainability Scholars Program is an innovative paid internship program. We match UBC graduate students with on- and off-campus sustainability partners to work on applied research projects that advance sustainability in the region.
SEEDS Sustainability Program
The Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Program creates partnerships between students, faculty, staff and community partners to learn together through research projects that are tested on campus, and applied in real-world settings.
Resources
This project aims to gain a better understanding of the relationship between N 2 O emissions and...
This project advances Vancouver's Circular Economy of Food (CEF) by answering two questions: Which...
This project supports Goal 2 (Green Buildings) of the Greenest City Strategy and focusses on...