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:
- Suggested First Year Courses
- Taking courses on both campuses
- ENVR course sections - beware!
- In this Concentration, intermediate calculus (AEMA 202 or MATH 222) is a required course. Note the pre-requisite course for intermediate calculus is linear algebra (BREE 103 for students in the Faculty of Ag.Env.Sc., and MATH 133 for students in the Faculty of Science).
Program Requirements
NOTE: Students 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.
NOTE: Revisions have been made to this Concentration, shown below, effective Fall 2020.
Core: Required Courses (18 credits)
ENVR 200 - The Global Environment
ENVR 201 - Society,Environ&Sustainability
ENVR 202 - The Evolving Earth
ENVR 203 - Knowledge, Ethics&Environment
ENVR 301 - Environmental Research Design
ENVR 400 - Environmental Thought
Core: Complementary Course — Senior Research Project (3 credits*)
AEBI 427 - Barbados Interdisc Project (M) (in Barbados)
ENVR 401 - Environmental Research
ENVR 451 - Research in Panama (in Panama)
FSCI 444 - Barbados Research Project (in Barbados)
GEOG 451 - Res in Society & Dev in Africa (in Africa)
* only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives
Domain: Required Courses (9 credits)
ATOC 214 - Intro:Physics of the Atmosph
ATOC 315 - Thermodynamics and Convection
GEOG 372 - Running Water Environments (not offered; see Program Adviser for options)
Domain: Complementary Courses (33 credits)
3 credits Meteorology:
ATOC 215 - Oceans, Weather and Climate
ATOC 341 - Caribbean Climate and Weather (in Barbados)
ENVB 301 - Meteorology (M) (not offered)
6 credits Hydrology and Ecology:
BREE 217 - Hydrology and Water Resources (M)
or GEOG 322 - Environmental Hydrology
and
BIOL 308 - Ecological Dynamics
or ENVB 305 - Population & Community Ecology (M)
3 credits Statistics:
AEMA 310 - Statistical Methods 1 (M)
BIOL 373 - Biometry (no longer offered)
GEOG 202 - Statistics & Spatial Analysis
MATH 203 - Principles of Statistics 1
3 credits Intermediate Calculus:
AEMA 202 - Intermediate Calculus (M)
MATH 222 - Calculus 3
3 credits Field Course:
BIOL 331 - Ecology/Behaviour Field Course (at Mont St. Hilaire)
BIOL 334D1 - Applied Tropical Ecology and BIOL 334D2 - Applied Tropical Ecology (in Barbados)
BIOL 335 - Marine Mammals (in New Brunswick)
BIOL 343 - Biodiversity in the Caribbean (in Barbados)
GEOG 495 - Field Studies-Physical Geog (at Mont St. Hilaire)
WILD 401 - Fisheries&Wildlife Management (field trip in New York)
OR an equivalent aquatic field course
9 credits - List A (Engineering / Math / Hydrology):
ATOC 309 - Weather Radars and Satellites
BREE 416 - Eng for Land Development (M)
BREE 420 - Eng for Sustainability (M)
BREE 506 - Adv in Drainage Management (M) (not offered)
BREE 509 - Hydrologic Systems & Modelling (M) (not offered)
BREE 533 - Water Quality Management (M)
CIVE 323 - Hydrology and Water Resources
ENVB 210 - The Biophysical Environment (M)
or GEOG 305 - Soils and Environment
ENVB 529 - GIS for Natural Resource Mgmt (M)
or GEOG 201 - Intro Geo-Information Science
ENVB 530 - Adv GIS for Natural Res Mgmt (M)
or GEOG 506 - Adv Geographic Information Sci
EPSC 549 - Hydrogeology
GEOG 308 - Rem Sens for Earth Observation
GEOG 314 - Geospatial Analysis
GEOG 537 - Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology (not offered)
MATH 315 - Ordinary Differential Eqns
or AEMA 305 - Differential Equations (M)
SOIL 315 - Soil Nutrient Management (M)
6 credits - List B (Marine and Freshwater Biology):
BIOL 310 - Biodiversity and Ecosystems
BIOL 342 - Glob Chng Biol of Aquat Ecosys (not offered 2023-2024)
BIOL 432 - Limnology
BIOL 441 - Biological Oceanography
BIOL 465 - Conservation Biology
BIOL 553 - Neotropical Environments (in Panama)
ENVB 410 - Ecosystem Ecology (M)
GEOG 470 - Wetlands
GEOG 505 - Global Biogeochemistry
GEOG 530 - Global Land & Water Resources
WILD 302 - Fish Ecology (M)
WILD 421 - Wildlife Conservation (M)