Students should consult the Academic Calendar for course availability and pre-requisites. Electives may be cancelled if enrolment is low or if a suitable instructor is not available. Full list of technical electives are below, and can also be found here. ENVL students can pick any Technical Electives from the pre-approved APSC and Non-APSC course lists (with exceptions, please refer to the footnotes). If you’re interested in other courses that are not included in the pre-approved technical elective lists, please contact the ENVL office at environmental.engineering@ubc.ca for further evaluation.
APSC Courses
| Course | Name | Term | Compatibility with Y3* STT | Compatibility with Y4* STT | Pre-req Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APSC 367 ++ | Humanitarian Engineering: Politics and Practice | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CHBE 344 | Introduction to Unit Operations | 1 | No | No | Yes |
| CHBE 352 | Transport Phenomena II | 1 | No | No | Yes |
| CHBE 355 | Kinetics and Reactor Design | 2 | No | No | No |
| CHBE 381 | Bioprocessing Engineering I | 2 | Yes | No | Yes*** |
| CHBE 473 | Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Leadership | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CHBE 476 | Advanced Process Engineering and Simulation | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CHBE 477 | Fuel Cell and Electrochemical Engineering | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CHBE 487 | Interfacial Phenomena | 2 | No | Yes | Yes |
| CHBE 488 | Carbon Capture, Conversion and Sequestration Technologies | 2 | No | No | Yes |
| CIVL 300 | Construction Engineering and Management | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CIVL 301 | Modelling and Decision-Making in Civil Engineering | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes*** |
| CIVL 311 | Soil Mechanics II | 1 | No | Yes | No |
| CIVL 340 | Transportation Engineering | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
| CIVL 408 | Geo-Environmental Engineering | 2 | Yes | Yes | No |
| CIVL 413 | Design of Earth Dams and Containment Structures | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| CIVL 415 | Water Resource Engineering | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CIVL 417 | Coastal Engineering | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CIVL 418 | Engineering Hydrology | 1 | No | No | Yes |
| CIVL 440 | Transportation Engineering II | 1 | No | No | Yes*** |
| CIVL 441 | Transportation Planning and Analysis | 2 | No | No | Yes*** |
| CIVL 475 | Environmental Stewardship in Civil Engineering - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| CIVL 478 | Building Science | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CIVL498Q | Topics in Civil Engineering - ENV MICROBIO ENG - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| MECH 469 | Dynamic System Modelling | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MECH 470 | Energy Conversion Systems - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| MECH 495 | Industrial Engineering | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
| MECH 496 | Engineering Management | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MINE 455 | Mine Water Management | 2 | No | No | Yes |
| MINE 486 | Mining and The Environment | 2 | No | No | Yes |
* The respective course time would fit at least one version of the 3rd year or 4th year STT, please refer here for detailed STT compatibility.
*** Instructor permission is required for registration
* The respective course time would fit at least one version of the 3rd year or 4th year STT, please refer here for detailed STT compatibility.
*** Instructor permission is required for registration
Non-APSC Courses
| Course | Name | Term | Compatibility with Y3 STT* | Compatibility with Y4 STT* | Pre-req Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANTH 360 | Introduction to Ecological Anthropology - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| APBI 402 | Sustainable Soil Management | 2 | No | No | No |
| ARCL 309 | Archeology Collapse & Sustainability - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| ATSC 313 | Renewable Energy Meteorology | 2 | Hybrid | Hybrid | Yes |
| CHEM 301 | Aqueous Environmental Chemistry | 1 | No | No | No |
| CHEM 302 | Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| CHEM 341 | Global Challenges: A Chemical Perspective | 1 | No | Yes | No |
| COMM 487 | Environmental Management - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| COMR 329** | Principles of Organizational Behaviour | 1, 2 | Please self-check | Please self-check | - |
| COMR 457** | Fundamentals of Financial Accounting | 1 | Please self-check | Please self-check | - |
| COMR 458** | Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting | 2 | Please self-check | Please self-check | - |
| COMR 465** | Marketing Management | 1, 2 | Please self-check | Please self-check | - |
| CONS 330 | Conservation Science and Sustainability | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| CONS 340 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Forestry and Conservation | 1, 2 | No | Yes | Yes |
| CONS 370 | Indigenous Forestry | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
| CONS 425 ++ | Sustainable Energy: Policy and Governance | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
| CONS 486 | Fish Conservation and Management | 2 | No | No | No |
| ECON 371 | Economics of the Environment | 1, 2 | Yes | Yes | - |
| ENST 311 | Urban Environments | 2 | Yes | No | No |
| ENVR 410 | Energy, Environment, and Society | 1 | No | Yes | Yes |
| ENVR 420 | Ecohydrology of Watersheds and Water Systems | 1, 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EOSC 340 | Global Climate Change | 1, 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EOSC 350 | Environmental, Geotechnical, and Exploration Geophysics I | 1 | No | Yes | Yes |
| EOSC 372 | Introductory Oceanography: Circulation and Plankton | 1 | No | No | Yes |
| EOSC 373 | Introductory Oceanography: Climate & Ecosystems | 1 | Yes | Yes | No |
| EOSC 426 | Fundamentals of Geomicrobiology - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| EOSC 428 + | Field Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EOSC 429 | Groundwater Contamination | 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EOSC 442 | Climate Measurement and Analysis | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| EOSC 474 | Marine Pollution | 1 | No | Yes | Yes |
| FRST 385 | Watershed Hydrology | 1 | No | No | Yes |
| FRST 386 | Aquatic Ecosystems and Fish in Forested Watersheds | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
| FRST 411 | Complex Adaptive Systems, Global Change Science, and Ecology Sustainability | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FRST 443 | Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Management | 2 | No | No | Yes |
| GEOG 310 | Environment and Sustainability | 2 | Yes | Yes | No |
| GEOG 312 | Climate Change: Science and Society | 1 | No | No | No |
| GEOG 313 | Environmental Justice and Social Change | 2 | No | No | No |
| GEOG 314 | Analyzing Environmental Problems | 2 | Yes | No | No |
| GEOG 350 ++ | Urban Worlds | 1, 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GEOG 497 | The Arctic - Not offered in Winter 2023 | ||||
| GEOS 300 | Microscale Weather & Climate | 2 | Yes | No | No |
| GEOS 401 | Urban Meteorology | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| ISCI 360 | Systems Approaches to Regional Sustainability | 1 | Yes | Yes | No |
| LAW 387C | Environmental Law - ENVIRONMENTL LAW | 2 | No | No | No |
| MICB 301 | Microbial Ecophysiology | 1 | No | No | No |
| MICB 405 | Bioinformatics | 1 | Yes | No | No |
| MICB 425 | Microbial Ecological Genomics | 2 | No | Yes | No |
| PHYS 333 | Energy and Climate | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PLAN 351 ++ | Green Cities | 2 | TBD | TBD | Yes |
| PLAN 425 ++ | Urban Planning Issues and Concepts | 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| POLI 351 | Environmental Politics and Policy | 2 | No | No | Yes |
| POLI 375A | Global Environmental Politics | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
| SCIE 420 | Sustainability for Community and the World | 2 | No | No | Yes |
| UFOR 330 | Environmental Justice and Urban Green Equity | 2 | Yes | No | Yes |
** A max of 3 credits can be taken towards the technical electives, and it is only for students who are enrolled in the Commerce Minor program.
+ EOSC 428 has limited capacity, with priority given to GEOE students. ENVL students must first register for the Waiting List, and be screened for significantly restricted seats.
++ Students may take only one of APSC 367, CONS 425, GEOG 350, PLAN 351 and PLAN 425 as a Technical Elective, while the other two may be taken as Humanity courses. For example: A student has decided to take PLAN 425 as a Technical Elective, and will be allowed to take APSC 367, CONS 425, GEOG 350 and PLAN 351 to fulfill the Humanities requirement, or as extra credits.