Graduate Options
Students that wish to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their Graduate Research may wish to register for a specific Graduate Option as part of their degree. Registration in a Graduate Option must be approved by a student's Supervisor
Parasitology MSc with Environment Option
Required Courses (40 credits)
PARA 600
Course not available
PARA 606
Parasitology Seminar
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: A seminar series in which students present seminars covering topics in parasitology, in areas relevant to their research interests. Students register for the course in their second term of residency. Attendance and participation are compulsory for M.Sc. students.
Offered by: Parasitology
PARA 607
Parasitology Research Seminar
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: This is a required course for M.Sc. students. A seminar course in which students registered at the Institute of Parasitology present seminars on the results of their thesis research. Students register for the course in the final term prior to thesis submission.
Offered by: Parasitology
PARA 687
Thesis Research 1
11 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Terms
- Instructors
- Robin N Beech
- Robin N Beech
PARA 688
Thesis Research 2
11 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Independent research work under the direction of the Thesis Supervisor.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Terms
- Instructors
- Robin N Beech
- Robin N Beech
PARA 691
Thesis Research 5
6 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Thesis research.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Restriction: Restricted to students registered in the M.Sc. in Parasitology, Environment option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 610
Foundations of Environ Policy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Analysis of current environmental policies to reveal implicit and explicit assumptions regarding scientific methods, hypothesis testing, subject/object, causality, certainty, deities, health, development, North-South concerns for resources, commons, national sovereignty, equity. Discussion of implications of such assumptions for building future environmental policies.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Enrolment in the Graduate Environment Option or enrolment in the Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 650
Environmental Seminar 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Interdisciplinary environmental research seminars with the goals of appreciating both the breadth and interconnectedness of environmental research questions.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 651
Environmental Seminar 2
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Environmental seminars and workshops focused on critical thinking, critical review of articles, team work, effective public speaking, grantmanship.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Open to students registered in the Environment Option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 652
Environmental Seminar 3
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Final research seminar.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite: ENVR 650.
- Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
presentation of a satifactory thesis based on the student's research
Complimentary courses (6 credits)
PARA 635
Cell Biology and Infection
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Research articles will be the primary source of information. This course will cover new principles in cell biology. In particular, the mechanisms by which gene expression is regulated through signal transduction pathways initiated at the cell surface will be presented.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Prerequisite: students with some background in molecular biology
or
PARA 655
Host-Parasite Interactions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Lectures, tutorials and laboratory demonstrations of the principal factors which affect levels of parasite infection and treatment of infections in humans and animals. The integration and management of the host-parasite relationship in terms of transmission, population dynamics, environmental management, behaviour, immune responses, pathology, and pharmacology to decrease parasitic disease.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Terms
- Instructors
- Roger K Prichard, Momar Ndao
ENVR 622
Sustainable Landscapes
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Tools and knowledge needed to evaluate landscapes for sustainable management. Processes that shape landscapes, consequences of alternate landscape patterns on ecological flows, implications of management choices on biodiversity and sustainability, and need for social innovations.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Students registered in Environment Option, or permission of instructor.
- Note: An understanding of ecological principles is required to take this course. Comparative case studies will be used.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 519
Global Environmental Politics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: How the problem of environmental degradation is dealt with at the international level. The scope and nature of global environmental protection issues that cross boundaries, both physical and conceptual. Actors, structures and processes of international society. Consideration of global commons and transnational resources and of environmental externalities.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite: ENVR 201 or ENVR 203 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Open to students in the Environment Graduate Option (available to other students with permission of instructor). (Not open to students who have taken ENVR 580 -- section 001 -- in Winter 2002, Fall 2003, or Fall 2004
- Note: This course has been offered three times as a Topics in Environment Course
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 544
Env. Measurement & Modelling
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Utility of geographic information systems, remote sensing and spatially-explicit modelling for environmental planning in conjunction with analytical frameworks used in the decision-making process (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, life-cycle analysis and multi-criteria decision making).
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisites: NRSC 430 or GEOG201 or URBP 505 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Students registered in Environment Graduate Option (or permission of instructor)
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 580
Course not available
ENVR 611
Course not available
ENVR 620
Environ and Health of Species
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: How major environmental problems affect the health of human and non-human species, and how environment and health interact at different spatial and temporal scales and with different components of the ecosystem. Immediate, chronic and evolutionary consequences on health. Uncertainty and causation.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Open to students in the Environment Option (available to other students with permission of instructor).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 630
Civilization and Environment
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Considers ways to reduce the human impact on Earth's life support systems through variables such as population size, wealth, technology, and conduct. Critically describes ethical frameworks for judging personal and policy choices, including post-collapse scenarios.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 680
Topics in Environment 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Seminars and discussion of advanced, interdisciplinary aspects of current problems in environment led by staff and/or special guests.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: students taking the Neotropical Environment Option.
- Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
or other graduate course recommended by advisory committee and approved by Environment Option Committee
Parasitology PhD with Environment Option
Required Courses
PARA 700
Course not available
PARA 710
Parasitology Ph.D. Seminar 1
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: This first seminar is a review of the scientific literature in the topic area of the thesis research.
Offered by: Parasitology
PARA 711
Parasitology Ph.D. Seminar 2
2 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: A seminar series in which students present seminars covering topics in parasitology in areas relevant to their research interests. Attendance and participation are compulsory.
Offered by: Parasitology
ENVR 610
Foundations of Environ Policy
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Analysis of current environmental policies to reveal implicit and explicit assumptions regarding scientific methods, hypothesis testing, subject/object, causality, certainty, deities, health, development, North-South concerns for resources, commons, national sovereignty, equity. Discussion of implications of such assumptions for building future environmental policies.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Enrolment in the Graduate Environment Option or enrolment in the Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 650
Environmental Seminar 1
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Interdisciplinary environmental research seminars with the goals of appreciating both the breadth and interconnectedness of environmental research questions.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 651
Environmental Seminar 2
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Environmental seminars and workshops focused on critical thinking, critical review of articles, team work, effective public speaking, grantmanship.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Open to students registered in the Environment Option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 652
Environmental Seminar 3
1 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Final research seminar.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite: ENVR 650.
- Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Presentation, and subsequent defence, of a satifactory thesis based on the student's research
Complimentary courses (6 credits)
PARA 635
Cell Biology and Infection
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Research articles will be the primary source of information. This course will cover new principles in cell biology. In particular, the mechanisms by which gene expression is regulated through signal transduction pathways initiated at the cell surface will be presented.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Prerequisite: students with some background in molecular biology
or
PARA 655
Host-Parasite Interactions
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Parasitology: Lectures, tutorials and laboratory demonstrations of the principal factors which affect levels of parasite infection and treatment of infections in humans and animals. The integration and management of the host-parasite relationship in terms of transmission, population dynamics, environmental management, behaviour, immune responses, pathology, and pharmacology to decrease parasitic disease.
Offered by: Parasitology
- Terms
- Instructors
- Roger K Prichard, Momar Ndao
ENVR 519
Global Environmental Politics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: How the problem of environmental degradation is dealt with at the international level. The scope and nature of global environmental protection issues that cross boundaries, both physical and conceptual. Actors, structures and processes of international society. Consideration of global commons and transnational resources and of environmental externalities.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite: ENVR 201 or ENVR 203 or permission of instructor
- Restrictions: Open to students in the Environment Graduate Option (available to other students with permission of instructor). (Not open to students who have taken ENVR 580 -- section 001 -- in Winter 2002, Fall 2003, or Fall 2004
- Note: This course has been offered three times as a Topics in Environment Course
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 544
Env. Measurement & Modelling
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Utility of geographic information systems, remote sensing and spatially-explicit modelling for environmental planning in conjunction with analytical frameworks used in the decision-making process (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, life-cycle analysis and multi-criteria decision making).
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisites: NRSC 430 or GEOG201 or URBP 505 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Students registered in Environment Graduate Option (or permission of instructor)
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 580
Course not available
ENVR 611
Course not available
ENVR 620
Environ and Health of Species
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: How major environmental problems affect the health of human and non-human species, and how environment and health interact at different spatial and temporal scales and with different components of the ecosystem. Immediate, chronic and evolutionary consequences on health. Uncertainty and causation.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: Open to students in the Environment Option (available to other students with permission of instructor).
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 630
Civilization and Environment
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Considers ways to reduce the human impact on Earth's life support systems through variables such as population size, wealth, technology, and conduct. Critically describes ethical frameworks for judging personal and policy choices, including post-collapse scenarios.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
ENVR 680
Topics in Environment 4
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Environment: Seminars and discussion of advanced, interdisciplinary aspects of current problems in environment led by staff and/or special guests.
Offered by: Bieler School of Environment
- Restriction: students taking the Neotropical Environment Option.
- Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
or other graduate course recommended by advisory committee and approved by Environment Option Committee
