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Sustainable Agriculture

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

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Requirements

Admission requirements

High-school prerequisites

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Application steps
  1. Step 1Check the admission requirements
    • Check the published entry route for your applicant category.
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  2. Step 2Apply through EducationPlannerBC
    • Create your application and select this program.
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  3. Step 3Official secondary-school transcript
    • KPU requires transcripts from every secondary and postsecondary institution attended.
    KPU official transcript requirementsKPU official transcript requirements
  4. Step 4$40 domestic application fee
    • The non-refundable fee applies to one application term.
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  5. Step 5Apply online in the appropriate applicant category and provide the required official academic documents.
    • Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
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  6. Step 6Satisfy the undergraduate English requirement and any exact programme-specific prerequisite/supplement stated in the linked university calendar.
    • Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
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  7. Step 7Use the myKPU Application Checklist & Status record to identify outstanding documents, programme-specific requirements and any assigned deadline. Limited-intake additional items are conditional, not universal.
    • Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
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  8. Step 8Arrange official academic records under the correct high-school or post-secondary procedure. Current BC high-school students release records through StudentTranscripts Service; other applicants use the published issuing-institution and out-of-country rules.
    • Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
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  9. Step 9Current high-school branches publish March 1 interim and August 1 final-record timing, subject to earlier limited-intake requirements. If transfer credit is requested, provide the required prior records and any requested course outlines.
    • Complete this item using the university’s applicant instructions.
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Applicant pathways
Applicant category

High-school, transfer, mature or Indigenous applicants as explicitly defined

  • High School : A graduate of a BC secondary school or an equivalent school system. ( Note: Proof of June graduation must be received in order to be eligible for Fall admission. High school students graduating in August are considered for Spring admission. High school students graduating in January are considered for Summer admission. )
  • Transfer: An applicant who has successfully completed 9 or more credits above the preparatory level from a recognized post-secondary institution.
  • Mature: An applicant who will be 19 years of age or older on the first day of the term of admission.
  • Indigenous: An Indigenous applicant who wishes to be considered for admission by the Indigenous Admissions Committee on an individual basis.
  • For further details on all of KPU's applicant categories, refer to the university Calendar.
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English evidence

All undergraduate applicants; exact programme criteria can be higher

  • Meet KPU undergraduate English proficiency using an accepted high-school, university/KPU course or testing route. The current official FAQ names English Studies 12 C+ or three undergraduate English credits C− as qualifying course routes; other accepted routes require calendar review.
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High-school applicant category and graduation timing

BC secondary-school graduates or an equivalent school system

  • Qualify through secondary graduation or an equivalent school system, then satisfy the chosen programme/faculty requirements. For Fall entry the page requires proof of June graduation. August graduates are considered for Spring; January graduates for Summer. No new admission year or ISO deadline is inferred.
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Transfer applicant category

Applicants with recognized prior postsecondary credits

  • The public category requires at least9 successfully completed credits above preparatory level from a recognized postsecondary institution. Category recognition is followed by the programme’s actual entry requirements; it does not guarantee credit transfer or waive a later-entry programme’s higher credit requirement.
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Mature applicant category

Applicants aged19 or older on the first day of the admission term

  • Age establishes the mature applicant category. Applicants must still satisfy the stated programme/faculty and appropriate English-proficiency requirements. No general age-based prerequisite waiver is published here.
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Indigenous individual admission category

Indigenous applicants requesting individual committee consideration

  • An Indigenous applicant may request consideration by the Indigenous Admissions Committee on an individual basis. The category does not itself promise admission to a limited intake or satisfy a programme’s special requirements.
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Open versus limited intake after applicant-category review

All KPU applicants; exact programme intake classification remains controlling

  • Qualifying for an applicant category is only the first step. Open-intake study follows the relevant faculty admission requirements; limited-intake programmes follow their own programme requirements and capacity limits.
  • Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the undergraduate English-proficiency requirement through an accepted school course, undergraduate/KPU course or test. Those unable to satisfy undergraduate requirements may be eligible for the separate Pathway to Undergraduate Studies; no automatic progression or approved equivalence is inferred.
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Degree requirements

Credits and degree requirements
  • 2026–27 calendar minimum credits required for the complete credential: 123. Major-only course tables do not replace linked degree-framework requirements.
ReferencesKPU current department programme/course informationKPU current Sustainable Agriculture bachelor programmeKPU2026–27 exact course contentKPU 2026–27 exact degree/major requirements

Program facts

Entering averageNot published

The university does not publish a comparable percentage minimum or entering-average range for this program.

KPU undergraduate admission requirements
InternshipInternship details
KPU2026–27 exact course contentCheck work experience options

Courses

Current department course examples or proposed offerings, shared across its degree routes. Individual course credits appear only when printed. These menus do not establish the complete major requirements. Tentative offerings can change.

2026–27: Curricular Requirements35 listed

Published requirement group, with course alternatives retained. This is not a fixed academic-term timetable or an assertion that every option is required. Note: Courses in Year One follow the agricultural season and progression of agricultural practices. | . Alternative row: AGRI 1130 or INDG 1130 | Indigenous Perspectives in Food Systems or Indigenous Perspectives in Food Systems | 3. Select one of the following: | 3. Alternative row: POST 1100 or PHIL 1111 | Sustainability and Ethics or Sustainability and Ethics | . | Credits | 32. Alternative row: AGRI 2150 or PHYS 2150 | Agricultural Technologies or Agricultural Technologies | 3. Summer Intersession | . | Credits | 31. Note: Courses in Year Three follow the agricultural season and progression of agricultural practices. | . Electives | 6. | Credits | 30. Electives 2 | 21. | Credits | 30. | Total Credits | 123

  • AGRI 1100Applied Organic Agriculture I3 credits

    Students will study the integrated application of food crop production principles and practices at the certified organic, KPU Farm.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 1130Indigenous Perspectives in Food Systems3 credits

    Food systems and food sovereignty are deeply connected to Indigenous well-being and relationship to the land, both historically and in the present.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • INDG 1130Indigenous Perspectives in Food Systems3 credits

    Food systems and food sovereignty are deeply connected to Indigenous well-being and relationship to the land, both historically and in the present.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 1150Foundations of Sustainable Agriculture3 credits

    Agriculture is one of the fundamental ways in which humans interact with the natural world, and has a crucial role to play in a sustainable future.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 1200Applied Organic Agriculture II6 credits

    Students will build on the crop production principles and practices of integrated crop production covered in AGRI 1100.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • BIOL 1110Introductory Biology I4 credits

    Students will study the diversity of life on Earth, the classification of organisms, biological evolution, and the interactions of organisms with their environments.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • ENGL 1100Introduction to University Writing3 credits

    In this introductory university writing course, students will develop their abilities in critical reading and thinking, analysis, and clear written expression.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • ENVI 1106Environmental Chemistry I4 credits

    Students will study chemistry with a focus on environmental issues and applications.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • STAT 1115Statistics I3 credits

    Students will summarize and display data and perform inferences about proportions, means and standard deviations for one and two populations.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • POLI 2100Politics, Climate Change and Sustainability3 credits

    Students will explore environmental sustainability as an issue in Canadian politics and examine the evolution of the environmental movement in Canada.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • POST 1100Sustainability and Ethics3 credits

    Students will examine various concepts of sustainability.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • PHIL 1111Sustainability and Ethics3 credits

    Students will examine various concepts of sustainability.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • POST 1200Inclusive Communities, Sustainable Futures3 credits

    Students will undertake an in-depth study of one broad sustainability issue that relates directly to our lives, such as the climate emergency, inclusive affordable housing, Indigenous land rights, disability rights, or the future of work.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2100Applied Organic Agriculture III3 credits

    Students will continue to build on organic crop production principles and practices learned in previous Applied Organic Agriculture courses.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2150Agricultural Technologies3 credits

    Critically examine established and emerging agricultural technologies through environmental, social, and economic lenses.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • PHYS 2150Agricultural Technologies3 credits

    Critically examine established and emerging agricultural technologies through environmental, social, and economic lenses.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2190Plant Science3 credits

    Students will study basic crop plant anatomy, morphology, physiology, growth and development, breeding and genetics.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2220Soil Stewardship and Management4 credits

    The goal of this course is to prepare students as future agricultural professionals to apply the soil science knowledge learned in this course to the challenges of contemporary land management.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2230Sustainable Human Economy3 credits

    Students will consider the roles that environment, society and economics has played in the development of the current global economic model.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2250Agriculture and Food Systems in British Columbia3 credits

    This course provides an introduction to the concept of a food system as an interconnected web of activities, processes, structures, resources, and people involved in providing human nourishment.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2320Advanced Soil Management3 credits

    Students will understand and manage agricultural soils.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2350Agroecology3 credits

    Students will examine the history of agroecology as a science, practice, and social movement and consider the vision it suggests for a more sustainable food system.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • BIOL 2322Ecology4 credits

    Students will learn the basic properties of ecosystem, community, and population ecology, including energy transfer, mineral cycling, community structure and dynamics, competition, predation, evolution, and population dynamics.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 2299Agri-Food in the Field2 credits

    Students will visit and observe agri-food system farm processing and distribution enterprises in British Columbia.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3120Agricultural Enterprise Design3 credits

    Students will examine the unique aspects of small scale agricultural businesses and understand the diversity of agricultural businesses.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3130Business Plans for Agriculture3 credits

    Students will produce a business plan for a small scale agricultural business.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3220Agricultural Pests and Beneficials3 credits

    Learn about the damaging insects, pathogens, weeds, and other organisms considered pests in agro-ecosystems.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3225Experimental Design & Analysis3 credits

    Students will learn the fundamental principles of agricultural experimental design and analysis and prepare an applied research proposal.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3230Agricultural Pest Management3 credits

    Students will survey the evolution of agricultural pest management paradigms and the ecological impacts of changing approaches over time.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3270Vegetable Crop Production3 credits

    Students will study the principles and practices utilized to cultivate vegetable crops, emphasizing but not limited to southwest British Columbia production (topics include adapted and novel crops and cultivars, field preparation, seeding, soil and nutrition management, water management, pest management, crop plant growth and development, crop maturation and harvest and post-harvest handling).

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3280Fruit and Nut Crop Production3 credits

    Students will study the principles and practices utilized in tree, small, bush, and cane fruit crops and nut crops cultivated in British Columbia (topics will include adapted and novel crops; climatic requirements; site selection and preparation; propagation; orchard, grove and patch planning and establishment; canopy management; pest, water, and fertility management; plant growth and development; crop maturation and harvest; and post-harvest handling and storage).

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 4100Crop Management Field Lab3 credits

    Students will apply practical field skills in the management of organic field crops on a diversified farm.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 3398Crop Physiology and Ecology3 credits

    Students will explore the interactions of plant communities with their environment across plant life cycles and the implications of this interaction on the quantity and quality of crop yield.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 4250Agroecology In Action3 credits

    In this course, students will reflect on the skills and capacities they have developed in the Sustainable Agriculture program, and consider their next steps and contributions to this field.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
  • AGRI 4298Agroecology as a Global Movement3 credits

    In this class we will explore how agroecology has developed as a transnational social movement for more democratic, equitable, and sustainable agri-food systems.

    KPU 2026–27 native course content
KPU 2026–27 exact degree/major requirements
Additional published courses
  • AGRI 3290Agroecosystems Management I3 credits
  • AGRI 3390Agroecosystems Management II6 credits

    Students will build on the crop production principles and practices of integrated crop production covered in AGRI 3290.

    KPU2026–27 exact course content
  • AGRI 3399Research Project I3 credits

    Students will continue to build and design their applied research project from AGRI 3225.

    KPU2026–27 exact course content
  • AGRI 4295Internship3 credits

    Students will identify and participate in an approved internship in the agriculture and food systems sector for a minimum of 120 hours with supervision from a Sustainable Agriculture faculty member.

    KPU2026–27 exact course content
  • AGRI 4190Agroecosystems Management III3 credits

    Students will continue to build on integrated crop production principles and practices learned in previous Agro-Ecosystems Management courses.

    KPU2026–27 exact course content
  • AGRI 4299Research Project II3 credits

    Students will complete, analyze, and present their applied research project from the previous research project course.

    KPU2026–27 exact course content

Careers

Career sectors

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  • Agriculture
  • Planning and development
  • Resource management
  • Research
  • Politics
  • Government
  • Non-government organizations
  • Related businesses
Career sectorsPublished career information
Scope and qualifications

The department describes Sustainable Agriculture graduates working in these career fields. Employer and specialist qualifications vary.

Costs

Category 1 courses

Published tuition

September 1,2026 through August 31,2027 · Registered native credit categories · CAD

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Tuition$166.10 / credit

Course-category tuition; university and KSA fees are extra

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