Program Overview

Bachelor of Sustainability

The Bachelor of Sustainability (BSust) is an interdisciplinary program that addresses issues like climate change and biodiversity loss. It requires students to learn within select concentrations that develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to take action and solve problems at local to global scales.

Program Structure

Students take a set of core integrative courses specific to sustainability along with a set of advanced courses in one of the following four concentrations:

• Environmental Analytics
• Environmental Conservation and Management
• Environmental Humanities
• Green Chemistry

Environmental Humanities Concentration

The Environmental Humanities concentration is a new configuration of humanities disciplines (principally literary studies, history, philosophy, Indigenous studies, cultural geography, and cultural anthropology) that understands environmental issues as inseparable from the specific cultural contexts in which they appear.

Program Goals

The program provides students with the appropriate breadth and rigour to critically assess and propose solutions to contemporary sustainability challenges, such as:

• Climate change
• Energy use
• Environmental degradation
• Urban and regional development
• Pollution
• Social and economic inequality in British Columbia and the world

Host Faculty

The Bachelor of Sustainability program is hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus.