This program is open only to students in the B.Sc. or B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment.
See also Information for Students for details concerning:
- Majors and Concentrations
- Suggested First Year courses
- Taking courses Outside your Faculty or on the "Other" campus (Science students, in particular, need to be aware of the Restricted Courses list)
- ENVR course sections - beware!
- Statistics course(s) overlap
- Your Faculty's Student Affairs Office
Program Requirements
NOTE: You are required to take a maximum of 30 credits at the 200 level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400 level or higher in this program. This includes Core and Required courses.
Organic Chemistry (CHEM 212 or FDSC 230) is a co- and/or pre-requisite for the courses in the Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology categories in this program.
In this domain, BIOL 112 or AEBI 122 is required as a pre-requisite for NUTR 207, a complementary course in the Nutrition category. As well, Organic Chemistry (CHEM 212 or FDSC 230) is a co-requisite for NUTR 207.
Core: Required Courses (18 cr)
ENVR 200. The Global Environment.
ENVR 201. Society, Environment and Sustainability.
ENVR 202. The Evolving Earth.
ENVR 203. Knowledge, Ethics and Environment.
ENVR 301. Environmental Research Design.
ENVR 400. Environmental Thought.
Core: Complementary Course — Senior Research Project (3 cr*)
AEBI 427. Barbados Interdisciplinary Project. (in Barbados)
ENVR 401. Environmental Research.
ENVR 451. Research in Panama. (in Panama)
FSCI 444. Barbados Research Project. (in Barbados)
* Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.
Concentration: Required course (3 cr)
PARA 410. Environment and Infection. (M)
Concentration: Complementary courses - Fundamentals (24 cr)
3 credits from each Category
Health and Environment
Note: You may take one of GEOG 221 or NRSC 221
GEOG 221. Environment and Health.
NRSC 221. Environment and Health. (M)
GEOG 303. Health Geography.
Health and Society
GEOG 403. Global Health and Environmental Change.(no longer offered)
GEOG 503. Advanced Topics in Health Geography.
PPHS 529. Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease. (U3 students only)
SOCI 234. Population and Society.
SOCI 309. Health and Illness.
SOCI 331. Population and Environment. (not offered 2025-2026)
Toxicology
ANSC 312. Animal Health and Disease. (M)
ENVB 500. Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology. (M) (offered Fall 2025 and alternate years)
NUTR 512. Herbs, Foods and Phytochemicals. (M)
PHAR 303. Principles of Toxicology.
Cellular Biology
Note: You will not receive credit for either LSCI 211 or LSCI 202 if you have already received credit for both BIOL 200 and BIOL 201; you will not receive credit for either BIOL 200 or BIOL 201 if you have already received credit for both LSCI 202 and LSCI 211.
ANSC 234. Biochemistry 2. (M)
BIOL 201. Cell Biology and Metabolism.
LSCI 202. Molecular Cell Biology. (M)
Molecular Biology
Note: You will not receive credit for either LSCI 211 or LSCI 202 if you have already received credit for both BIOL 200 and BIOL 201; you will not receive credit for either BIOL 200 or BIOL 201 if you have already received credit for both LSCI 202 and LSCI 211.
BIOL 200. Molecular Biology.
LSCI 211. Biochemistry 1. (M)
Statistics
AEMA 310. Statistical Methods 1. (M)
MATH 203. Principles of Statistics 1.
or equivalent
Nutrition
ANSC 433. Animal Nutrition and Metabolism. (M)
NUTR 207. Nutrition and Health. (M)
NUTR 307. Metabolism and Human Nutrition. (M)
Advanced Ecology
Note: You may take ENVR 540 or BIOL 540, but not both; you may take BIOL 451 or NRSC 451, but not both.
AEBI 421. Tropical Horticultural Ecology. (M) (in Barbados)
BIOL 451. Research in Ecology and Development in Africa. (in Africa)
BIOL 465. Conservation Biology.
BIOL 553. Neotropical Environments. (in Panama)
ENVB 410. Ecosystem Ecology. (M)
ENVR 540. Ecology of Species Invasions.
BIOL 540. Ecology of Species Invasions.
MICR 331. Microbial Ecology. (M)
NRSC 451. Research in Ecology and Development in Africa. (M) (in Africa)
PLNT 460. Plant Ecology. (M)
Concentration: Complementary Courses - List A (6 cr)
Maximum 3 cr from any one category:
Hydrology, Climate, and Agriculture
AGRI 340. Principles of Ecological Agriculture. (M)
AGRI 550. Sustained Tropical Agriculture. (M) (offered alternate years; in Panama)
ATOC 341. Caribbean Climate and Weather. (in Barbados)
BREE 217. Hydrology and Water Resources. (M)
GEOG 321. Climatic Environments.
GEOG 322. Environmental Hydrology.
Decision Making, Techniques and Management
Note: You may take AGEC 200 or ECON 208, but not both; you may take ENVB 529 or GEOG 201, but not both.
AEBI 423. Sustainable Land Use. (M) (in Barbados)
AGEC 200. Principles of Microeconomics. (M)
AGEC 333. Resource Economics. (M)
ECON 208. Microeconomic Analysis and Applications.
ENVB 529. GIS for Natural Resource Management. (M)
ENVB 437. Assessing Environmental Impact. (M)
ENVR 422. Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis. (offered alternate years, in May term)
GEOG 201. Introductory Geo-Information Science.
GEOG 302. Environmental Management 1.
GEOG 340. Sustainability in the Caribbean. (in Barbados)
GEOG 404. Environmental Management 2. (in Africa)
PHIL 343. Biomedical Ethics.
Or, advanced quantitative methods course (with approval of Adviser)
Development and History
ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development.
EDER 461. Society and Change.
HIST 292. History and the Environment.
NUTR 501. Nutrition in the Majority World. (M)
SOCI 254. Development and Underdevelopment.
Concentration: Complementary Courses - List B (9 cr)
Maximum 3 cr from any one category
Immunology and Infectious Disease
ANSC 400. Eukaryotic Cells and Viruses. (M)
MIMM 214. Introductory Immunology: Elements of Immunity.
MIMM 314. Intermediate Immunology.
MIMM 324. Fundamental Virology.
MIMM 413. Parasitology.
PARA 424. Fundamental Parasitology. (M)
PARA 438. Immunology. (M)
PPHS 501. Population Health and Epidemiology.
Population and Place
Note: You may take ANTH 451 or GEOG 451, but not both.
AGRI 411. Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture. (M)
ANTH 451. Research in Society and Development in Africa. (in Africa)
ENVR 421. Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability. (offered alternate years, in May term)
GEOG 300. Human Ecology in Geography.(no longer offered)
GEOG 451. Research in Society and Development in Africa. (in Africa)
GEOG 498. Humans in Tropical Environments. (offered alternate years; in Panama)
NUTR 341. Global Food Security. (M)
Pollution Control and Pest Management
Note: You may take BIOL 350 or ENTO 350, but not both.
BIOL 350. Insect Biology and Control. (not offered)
BREE 322. Management of Organic Residue (M)
ENTO 350. Insect Biology and Control.(M) (no longer offered)
ENTO 352. Biocontrol of Pest Insects. (M)
NRSC 333. Pollution and Bioremediation. (M) (not offered 2025-2026)
PARA 515. Water, Health and Sanitation. (M) (not offered 2025-2026)
Genetics
BIOL 202. Basic Genetics.
LSCI 204. Genetics.(M)