M.Sc. Neotropical Environment - Applied

Non-Thesis Option (45 credits)

Requirements

• A minimum of 45 credits
• Participation in the MSE-Panama Symposium presentation in Montreal.

Required Courses

1. 20 credits of required courses:

   ENVR 610. Foundations of Environmental Policy.

   Credits: 3

   Offered by: Bieler School of Environment (Graduate Studies)

   Terms offered: Summer 2025

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   Description

   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.

   • 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.

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   BIOL 640. Tropical Biology and Conservation.

   Credits: 3

   Offered by: Biology (Graduate Studies)

   Terms offered: Summer 2025

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   Description

   Long-term research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute will be organized and synthesized to examine historical assembly and ecological maintenance of tropical communities. This synthesis will draw on phylogenetic concepts for historical insight and will examine the probable resilience of these communities to global change, pollution and biodiversity loss.

   • Fees: Graduate students requesting registration in the Neotropical Environment Option pay a fee of $892.78. This fee is used to support the costs associated with transportation and housing while in Panama.
   • Restriction: students enrolled in Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor
   • Fees: Graduate students requesting registration in the Neotropical Environment Option pay a fee of $919.56. This fee is used to support the costs associated with transportation and housing while in Panama.

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   BREE 651. Departmental Seminar M.Sc. 1.

   Credits: 1

   Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)

   Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

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   Description

   To give seminars and participate in discussions.

   • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 651.

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   BREE 652. Departmental Seminar M.Sc. 2.

   Credits: 1

   Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)

   Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026

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   Description

   To give seminars and participate in discussions.

   • Prerequisites: BREE 651

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   BREE 671. Project 1.

   Credits: 6

   Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)

   Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026

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   Description

   Supervised research project.

   • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 671 or ABEN 671D1/D2.

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   BREE 672. Project 2.

   Credits: 6

   Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Graduate Studies)

   Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026

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   Description

   Supervised research project.

   • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 672 or ABEN 672D1/D2.

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1. 3 credits must be chosen from:
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   ENVR 680. Topics in Environment 4.

   Credits: 3

   Offered by: Bieler School of Environment (Graduate Studies)

   This course is not offered this catalogue year.

   Description

   Seminars and discussion of advanced, interdisciplinary aspects of current problems in environment led by staff and/or special guests.

   • Topic 2004/05: Montreal Advanced Seminar on Civilization & Environment.
   • Restriction: students taking the Neotropical Environment Option.
   • Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

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   BIOL 553. Neotropical Environments.

   Credits: 3

   Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)

   This course is not offered this catalogue year.

   Description

   Ecology revisited in view of tropical conditions. Exploring species richness. Sampling and measuring biodiversity. Conservation status of ecosystems, communities and species. Indigenous knowledge.

   • Restriction: location in Panama. Students must register for a full semester of studies in Panama
   • Winter
   • 24 hours lecture and 36 hours field work over a 4-week period
   • Prerequisites: HISP 218, MATH 203, and BIOL 215
   • Corequisites: ENVR 451; GEOG 404 and HIST 510 alternating with GEOG 498 and AGRI 550
   • Restriction: location in Panama. Students must register for a full semester of studies in Panama

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   GEOG 498. Humans in Tropical Environments.

   Credits: 3

   Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

   This course is not offered this catalogue year.

   Description

   Focus on understanding of inter-relations between humans and neotropical environments represented in Panama. Study of contemporary rural landscapes, their origins, development and change. Impacts of economic growth and inequality, social organization, and politics on natural resource use and environmental degradation. Site visits and field exercises in peasant/colonist, Amerindian, and plantation communities.

   • Winter
   • 6 hours lecture for 4 weeks, 3 hours seminar, 2 hours laboratory, 8 hours conference
   • Restriction: Location in Panama. Student must register for a full semester of studies in Panama
   • Prerequisites: HISP 218, MATH 203 or equivalents

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   AGRI 550. Sustained Tropical Agriculture.

   Credits: 3

   Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)

   Terms offered: Winter 2026

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   Description

   Contrast theory and practice in defining agricultural environmental "challenges" in the Neotropics. Indigenous and appropriate technological means of mitigation. Soil management and erosion, water scarcity, water over-abundance, and water quality. Explore agro-ecosystem protection via field trips and project designs. Institutional context of conservation strategies, NGO links, and public participation.

   • Prerequisites: HISP 218 or equivalent; MATH 203 or AEMA 310 or equivalent
   • Restriction: Restricted Enrolment. Location in Panama. Student must be registered for a full semester of studies in Panama

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1. 22 additional credits in graduate courses chosen in consultation with the academic advisor.

• A minimum of 45 credits
• Participation in the MSE-Panama Symposium presentation in Montreal.

* "Course not available" : Courses are not provided in the present academic year.