Environmental Analytics

Bachelor of Sustainability (BSust)

Engage sustainability challenges through evidence-based data analysis to understand, model, simulate, explain and extrapolate the behaviour of complex environmental systems.

Degree

Bachelor

Length

4 years

Faculty/School

Interdisciplinary

Why study Environmental Analytics at UBC Okanagan?

The Environmental Analytics concentration supplements core knowledge of sustainability with modern techniques from several disciplines.

Powerful modeling and simulation techniques that exploit geographical data will allow students to understand, model, simulate, explain and extrapolate the behaviour of complex environmental systems.

Environmental analytics graduates will be well-equipped to tackle sustainability challenges through evidence-based data analysis.

Degree Options

Students enrolled in BSust take a set of core integrative courses specific to sustainability along with a set of advanced courses in one of four concentrations.

BSust

Sample Courses

These are examples of courses you can enrol in during your studies. To plan your academic journey, please visit undergraduate student resources.

Year 1

INDG 102 - Introduction to Indigeneity: Ways of Knowing
SUST 100 - Sustainability: People, Place, and Process
SUST 104 - Introduction to Environmental Humanities
COSC 111 - Computer Programming I
DATA 101 - Making Predictions with Data
ECON 101 - Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 102 - Principles of Macroeconomics
MATH 100 - Differential Calculus with Applications to Physical Sciences and Engineering
MATH 101 - Integral Calculus with Applications to Physical Sciences and Engineering

Year 2

STAT 230 - Introductory Statistics
SUST 200 - Application, Practice and Management Approaches
SUST 201 - Introduction to Research in Sustainability and Geography
SUST 202 - Community Service Learning
SUST 204 - Creative Communication and Engagement
SUST 205 - Sustainability Economics
MATH 221 - Matrix Algebra

Year 3

SUST 300 - Achieving Sustainability at the Regional Scale
SUST 301 - Methods in Solving Wicked Problems
SUST 302 - Community Service Learning
DATA 301 - Introduction to Data Analytics
COSC 304 - Introduction to Databases
DATA 310 - Applied Regression Analysis
DATA 315 - Applied Time Series and Forecasting
ECON 371 - Economics of the Environment
PHIL 331 - Computer Ethics
GISC 380 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science I

Year 4

SUST 400 - Capstone Project in Sustainability
SUST 402 - Community Service Learning
BIOL 401 - Spatial Ecology
DATA 407 - Sampling and Design
DATA 410 - Regression and Generalized Linear Models
PHIL 435 - Environmental Ethics
STAT 406 - Environmetrics

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Careers and Outcomes

UBC degrees are respected by employers around the globe. Program graduates will have the skills to pursue a career in a variety of fields like,

Environmental data analyst
Energy transition data analyst
Sustainability data analyst
Energy and sustainability analyst
Climate resilience analyst
Quantitative analyst for climate solutions
Environmental impact data analyst

Solar energy analyst
Wildfire response and risk management analyst
Weather analytics
Data scientist in climate change
Data analytics and visualization

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