Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Interdisciplinary Studies
Build your own bachelor's degree with courses chosen from across the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
Interdisciplinary StudiesThe Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) at CapU is home to a community of learners who examine complex ideas through a uniquely interdisciplinary lens.
What is the IIS?
The IIS offers three bachelor's degrees and a Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies. It houses and supports interdisciplinary academic programs, teaching, research and scholarship, especially where faculty expertise and resources across two or more academic units or disciplines are required.
While the IIS is located in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, it seeks to engage with university members and facilitate collaboration across all faculties at Capilano University.
In addition, it fosters the University’s engagement and collaboration in scholarly and other activities with community partners in the region.
Bachelor of Environment and Society (Environmental Sciences)
In this four-year degree, you'll gain the skills to make a difference in the environmental workforce.
Environmental Sciences
Bachelor of Environment and Society (Environmental Studies)
Train to work in environmental advocacy across multiple public and non-profit sectors and industries.
Environmental StudiesBridge-to-Prison program
The Capilano University Bridge-to-Prison program gives campus-based CapU students (outside students) a unique, hands-on learning experience in a prison classroom where they learn alongside incarcerated FVI-based (inside students) students.
The benefits of this program include providing outside students with opportunities to see inside a prison, to challenge stereotypes about those who are incarcerated and to connect with traditionally isolated groups.
For inside students, this program creates access to an inclusive post-secondary education and allows for critical thinking and lively discussion in a university-like setting. It allows us all to rethink how we teach and learn in diverse and unlikely spaces.
Thomas Flower
B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD
Bachelor of Environment and Society (Environmental Sciences)Thomas Flower is a biologist whose work focuses on evolution, ecology and conservation biology.
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Cassidy Picken
BA, MA, PhD
Picken obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago where he studied 18th and 19th century Anglophone literature, focusing on Romanticism, the British imperial world and legacies of colonialism.
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Eugene Chu
B.Sc. (Hons), PhD
Eugene Chu is an instructor and laboratory supervisor in the Biology department at Capilano University whose interests include genetics, cell and molecular biology, as well as biochemistry.
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