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Integrated Sciences

About Integrated Sciences

UBC Integrated Sciences crosses disciplinary boundaries and allows you to create your own degree in science. It offers extensive and careful advice on your curriculum choices and overall educational objectives. Core courses are taught by highly rated instructors, and faculty mentors stay in touch with students throughout, and often after their degree. The opportunities and responsibilities of creating your own individualized degree are significant.

Program Details

During second year, you'll work with a dedicated advisor to complete a program application consisting of a vision statement and curriculum rationale. The program's core courses are highly interactive and generally stress active learning, group discussion and collaborative research. A fourth-year capstone course provides a platform where you can reflect on your interdisciplinary degree proposal, apply it to the real world, and share findings with the scientific community. The program’s flexibility and mentoring support are invaluable--recent graduates have continued on to careers in health, law, education, business and the public sector.

Skills

• Persuasive and evidence-based proposal writing
• Faculty and peer mentor collaboration
• Design, development, and adjustment of multi-year degree plans
• Communication across diverse disciplines
• Self-management and initiative
• Application of systems-thinking to sustainability issues and other complex global problems
• Collaborative research skills within multidisciplinary teams

Specializations offered

• Major or Honours, Integrated Sciences
• Co-op

Resources

• Academic Calendar Entry
• Program Specialization Website
• Undergraduate Advisors
• Student Club Website

Career Options

With an undergraduate degree

• Environmental manager
• Forensic laboratory technician
• Health education specialist
• Laboratory technician
• Public health advisor or analyst
• Research assistant
• Scientific journalist
• Software developer

With additional study

• Dentist
• Doctor
• Forensic scientist
• Geneticist
• Lawyer
• Marine biologist
• Neuroscientist
• Nurse
• Nutritionist
• Optometrist
• Pharmacist
• Physiotherapist
• Psychiatrist
• Urban planner
• Teacher or professor
• Veterinarian
• Virologist

More Career Resources

• Involvement and Career Resources

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Musqueam First Nation land acknowledegement

We honour xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) on whose ancestral, unceded territory UBC Vancouver is situated. UBC Science is committed to building meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples so we can advance Reconciliation and ensure traditional ways of knowing enrich our teaching and research.

Learn more: Musqueam First Nation

Faculty of Science

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