School of Health & Exercise Sciences Graduate Studies

MSc, Health & Exercise Sciences

As of September 2018, the Health and Exercise Sciences graduate program will offer a full-time Master of Science degree. Applicants to the program will have interests in health sciences and will come from a variety of backgrounds within the biological, natural, and social sciences.

Program Requirements

• HMKN 501: Research Seminar in Health & Exercise Sciences
• HMKN 506: Research Methods in Health & Exercise Sciences
• HMKN 549: MSc Thesis
• 9 credits of elective coursework

Elective course offerings may include:

• HMKN 505: Quantitative Analyses: Decision Making Using Data in Health & Exercise Science
• HMKN 545: Special Topics in Health and Exercise Sciences (topic to be determined with Supervisor)

Students currently enrolled in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences Master of Science program offered through Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS), can transfer into the new MSc, HES program by completing the Transfer Between Related Mater’s Graduate Programs form.

PhD, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies

The School of Health and Exercise Sciences offers a PhD through the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS) program program at UBC’s Okanagan campus. IGS offers students opportunities to pursue graduate studies across disciplinary boundaries, and to tailor their course of study to suit their particular needs. IGS programs are greatly facilitated by our smaller size, thereby allowing students to work more intimately with faculty across a variety of departments and disciplines. The structure allows for both interfaculty and intercampus arrangements for supervision and courses. The course and program requirements provide structure to ensure quality in both the breadth and depth of the student’s academic experience.

Program requirements can be viewed here.

Funding & Scholarships

There is an expectation that all students are funded by their supervisor. These funds may include teaching assistantships, research assistantships and scholarship funding.

Internal Funding

• University Graduate Fellowship
• Graduate Dean’s Entrance Scholarship
• Faculty of Health & Social Development Graduate student Travel Grant
• The College of Graduate Studies is responsible for merit-based graduate awards at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. The College manages a number of award competitions each year and administers payment of all internal awards and selected external awards. Please visit the College of Graduate Studies for more information on application information.

External Funding

• Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Killam Doctoral Scholarship
• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Program Progression & Thesis

For information on program progression, including Thesis & Dissertation and Deadlines, please visit the College of Graduate Studies web page for Current Students.   The Library, in partnership with the College of Graduate Studies, now offers a Thesis Formatting Service to all graduate students. The service respects the academic purpose and integrity of the thesis writing and submission process and includes services such as:

• Formatting of table of contents, lists of figures, tables and illustrations.
• Formatting of margins, line spacing, indentation, title pages and page numbering, headers and footers.
• Text formatting, including styling headings, case correction and pagination.
• Alignment of tables, graphs, charts and figures.

Please follow this link for more information about this service. In order to ensure timely delivery, students should submit their theses to the service a minimum of 15 working days in advance of when they would like to have them returned. Specific dates vary depending on graduation. Students may view the Thesis Scheduling Timelines for Graduation graph for details about thesis submission deadlines. Supervisors can support their students by signing off that the student will be using the Thesis Formatting Service as identified within the Thesis Formatting Service Agreement. Please direct questions about the Thesis Formatting Service to ubco.thesisformatting@ubc.ca.  

Forms

Please see the College of Graduate Studies webpage for more forms.

Annual Progress Reports & University Graduate Fellowships

Please view HES’s Summary of University Graduate Fellowships & Graduate Dean’s Entrance Scholarships here.