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, 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 credits*)
AEBI 427. Barbados Interdisciplinary Project.(M) (in Barbados)
ENVR 401. Environmental Research.
ENVR 451. Research in Panama. (in Panama)
FSCI 444. Barbados Research Project. (in Barbados)
GEOG 451. Research in Society and Development 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. Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere.
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 and Community Ecology.(M)
3 credits Statistics:
AEMA 310. Statistical Methods 1.(M)
BIOL 373. Biometry. (no longer offered)
GEOG 202. Statistics and 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 Caribean. (in Barbados)
GEOG 495. Field Studies - Physical Geography. (at Mont St. Hilaire)
WILD 401. Fisheries and 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. Engineering for Land Development.(M) (not offered 2024-2025)
BREE 420. Engineering for Sustainability.(M)
BREE 506. Advances in Drainage Management.(M) (not offered 2024-2025)
BREE 509. Hydrologic Systems and Modelling. (M)
BREE 533. Water Quality Management.(M)
CIVE 323. Hydrology and Water Resources.
ENVB 210. The Biophysical Environment.(M)
or GEOG 305. Soils and Environment. (not offered 2024-2025)
ENVB 529. GIS for Natural Resource Management.(M)
or GEOG 201. Introductory Geo-Information Science.
ENVB 530. Advanced GIS for Natural Resource Management.(M)
or GEOG 506. Advanced Geographic Information Science. (not offered 2024-2025)
EPSC 549. Hydrogeology.
GEOG 308. Remote Sensing for Earth Observation.
GEOG 314. Geospatial Analysis.
GEOG 537. Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology. (not offered)
MATH 315. Ordinary Differential Equations.
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. Global Change Biology of Aquatic Ecosystems.
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 and Water Resources. (not offered 2024-2025)
WILD 302. Fish Ecology.(M)
WILD 421. Wildlife Conservation.(M)