University of British Columbia

This course examines the effects of urbanization and global environmental change on the geographies of cities across the world, with specific focus on urban environmental justice and inequality.

This course examines the relationship between patrons and audiences in painting, sculpture, and architecture through the 15th century.

This course examines the economic foundations of managerial decision-making. Topics include the supply-demand model, empirical analysis of demand, consumer choice, production and costs, the organization of the firm, market structure, pricing, game theory, uncertainty, information, the agency problem, and market failure.

This course is an economic analysis of various environmental issues, including sustainable development, quality of life, and environmental impacts of specific industrial and consumption activities. It covers the design and implementation of government policies, and global environmental effects of human economic activity.

This course examines various ethical theories applied to various health care issues. It covers topics such as drug legalization, euthanasia, abortion, addiction, suicide and mental illness.  

This course examines dynamics and control of prokaryotic cellular processes in response to the biotic and abiotic environment including metabolic interactions and metabolic cooperation between microorganisms.

This course examines the conditions and causes of long run growth from nomadism to agriculture to industrialized states, including institutions, geography, culture, colonialism, and slave trades. It covers determinants of the Neolithic, consumer and industrial revolutions, demographic transition and first era of globalization. 

This course examines the determinants of trade patterns, trade policy, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, political economy of protectionism, bilateral and multilateral trade disputes, trade liberalization, trade and development.

This course examines the diverse and often elegant ways that the bounty of algae, fungi, and bryophytes grow and reproduce right here on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. 

This course examines fundamental genetic principles, as well as many applications of these fundamentals. Topics include: genotype and phenotype, mechanisms of inheritance, and genetic analysis.