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
Programs offered
- Major or Honours, Integrated Sciences
- Co-op
Resources
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
UBC Science Integrated Sciences Graduates Work As
- PhD Candidate in Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Medical Student, University of British Columbia
- Associate Attorney, Prowse Chowne LLP
- Master of Public Health Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
- Physical Therapist, Physioworks
- Research Assistant, BC Centre on Substance Use