From a final year ISCI student. 1. The ability to build your own degree
The freedom to choose your own specialization allows you customize and tailor your degree to support your passions. 2. Very few requirements! Instead of taking courses you are not interested in, you can focus on what is actually essential to your disciplines. 3. Fantastic faculty mentorship ISCI has a great group of faculty mentors. This means you will have one-on-one time with a UBC professor who will help guide you as you design your degree and possibly beyond! 4. No required lab courses This can be both a pro and con, but I like to see it as a pro. Lab courses take up a lot of time, and so without them, you will have a lot more free time to be a part of the UBC community. This could be through volunteering, working, joining a club, or even assisting in a research lab! Research experience is worth 10x what you will learn in a course. 5. Really cool courses ISCI offers some really cool courses like ISCI 361 where you go to Hawaii or Iceland to study sustainability! Another fun course is ISCI 320, a research retreat without internet, or ISCI 350, Darwinian medicine. 6. An amazing department Mary Anne Lyons, the Program Manager and Advisor, is incredibly kind and helpful, and is always there to answer your questions and help you out! Lee Groat, the Director, is passionate about his teaching and loves getting to know every ISCI student. He is a great faculty mentor as well! 7. Directed Studies! Directed studies are a great opportunity for upper year ISCI students to carry out an individual research project, with the guidance of faculty. This can be lab, field, or theory based and allows you to apply your knowledge and gain real world experience. 8. An outstanding Co-op program. Yas Azarpajouh, the Co-op coordinator for ISCI, genuinely cares about each of her students and goes above and beyond to help each student find success! Many ISCI students pursue really cool Co-op opportunities—from clinical research to wet lab to industry, ISCI students are there! 9. Peer Mentorship ISSA offers a peer mentorship program, where second-year students are paired with a senior student who is able to answer your questions and provide support as you pick your courses and write your degree proposal. Of course, once you are a senior student, you can volunteer to be a peer mentor and give back to the ISCI community. 10. ISSA! The Integrated Sciences Student Association (ISSA) is all about helping and connecting ISCI students and has some great events to do so! From Meet your Mentor, where we help you find a faculty advisor, to proposal workshops to Meet Your Alumni, where ISCI grads offer insights on paths after your BSc, ISSA is there to support you!
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