MSE offers an Undergraduate Program and a Graduate Option in Environment.
In striving to nurture those young adults wishing to pursue a career in environment, the MSE aims to stimulate their passion for life‐long learning, their confidence in questioning established norms, their ingenuity and openness to new ideas, and their ability to communicate and contribute effectively in all situations. We believe that these goals will be best achieved through repeated opportunities to witness, experience and participate in diverse academic approaches. We believe that individual achievement will be maximized by assuming inherent capacity and by recognizing that not all students learn the same way. Finally, we believe that major research achievements will emerge out of a dynamic, interactive community where dialogue occurs among engaged students, staff and faculty from all disciplines. Thus, the MSE approach is student‐centered. We strive to achieve a fully integrated, transdisciplinary understanding of problems and solutions to the many and interdependent environmental crises in a manner that bridges the social sciences and humanities with the natural and applied sciences.
Undergraduate programs at McGill are 90‐credit, 3‐year programs for students from Quebec who have completed the 2‐year CEGEP program. Non‐Quebec students enter a freshman year (U0) and then proceed to the normal 3‐year degrees. U1 courses are designated at the 200 level. Students in U2 and U3 typically take courses at the 300‐ and 400‐ level, and may also take 500‐level graduate courses.
The MSE offers six undergraduate degree programs:
- B.Sc. Major Environment for students in the Faculty of Science
- B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment for students in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- B.A. Faculty Program Environment for students in the Faculty of Arts
- B.A.&Sc. Interfaculty Program Environment for students in the Bachelor of Arts & Science degree
- B.A.&Sc. Interfaculty Program Sustainability, Science and Society for students in the Bachelor of Arts & Science degree
- Diploma in Environment
In addition, an Environment Honours program is available to students in the Environment Bachelors degree programs.
Students in other Departments and Programs can undertake an Environment Minor or Minor Concentration.
The most up-to-date information on courses being offered each academic year is available on Class Schedule at www.mcgill.ca/minerva.