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Diploma in Environment (30 credits)

The Diploma in Environment is designed for students with an undergraduate degree who wish to enrich or reorient their training, supplementing their specialization with additional undergraduate level course work.

The Diploma requires 30 credits of full-time or part-time study. Taken full-time, the Diploma is a one year program.

Students holding a BSc or BA degree or equivalent can apply to the Diploma in Environment through the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, or the Faculty of Arts. Please see the Undergraduate Admissions website for admissions details.

To obtain the Diploma, students must:

fulfill all program requirements for the Environment Diploma;
fulfill all degree requirements for the Environment Diploma, as provided in the the University's 'Programs, Courses, and University Regulations' e-Calendar; and,
earn a grade of C or higher in all courses.

Program Requirements (30 credits)

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.

Complementary Courses (12 credits)

These should be selected from the lists below.

3 credits must be taken with the approval of the program adviser in an area outside the student's previous degree (e.g., those with those with a B.A. degree must take 3 credits in Natural Sciences; those with a B.Sc. degree must take 3 credits in SocialSciences).

9 credits must be taken in an area of focus chosen by the student with the approval of the program adviser. At least 6 credits must be taken at the 400-level or higher. All courses must be at the 200 level and above, and completed with a grade of C or better.

Most courses listed at the 300 level and higher have prerequisites. Although instructors may waive prerequisite(s) in some cases, students are urged to prepare their program of study well before their final year.
Not all courses are available in any given year. Check the departmental listings in the "Undergraduate Programs Calendar" for full course descriptions and prerequisites, and check Minerva for current scheduling.
Courses marked (M) are offered on the Macdonald campus.

Social Sciences and Policy

AGEC 231. Economic Systems of Agriculture. (M)
AGEC 333. Resource Economics. (M)
AGEC 430. Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy. (M)
AGEC 442. Economics of International Agricultural Development. (M)

AGRI 411. Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture. (M)

ANTH 206. Environment and Culture. (not offered 2024-2025)
ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development.
ANTH 339. Ecological Anthropology.
ANTH 418. Environment and Development. (not offered 2024-2025)
ANTH 512. Political Ecology. (not offered 2024-2025)

ECON 205. An Introduction to Political Economy. (not offered 2024-2025)
ECON 225. Economics of the Environment.
ECON 326. Ecological Economics.
ECON 347. Economics of Climate Change.
ECON 405. Natural Resource Economics.

EDER 494. Human Rights and Ethics in Practice. (not offered 2024-2025)

ENVB 437. Assessing Environmental Impact.

ENVR 201. Society, Environment and Sustainability.
ENVR 203. Knowledge, Ethics and Environment.
ENVR 400. Environmental Thought.
ENVR 421. Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability. (offered alternate years, in May term)

GEOG 216. Geography of the World Economy.
GEOG 221. Environment and Health. (not offered)
GEOG 300. Human Ecology in Geography. (not offered)
GEOG 301. Geography of Nunavut. (not offered)
GEOG 302. Environmental Management 1.
GEOG 303. Health Geography.
GEOG 310. Development and Livelihoods. (not offered)
GEOG 370. Protected Areas. (not offered)
GEOG 403. Global Health and Environmental Change. (not offered)
GEOG 408. Geography of Development.
GEOG 423. Dilemmas of Development. (in Africa)
GEOG 530. Global Land and Water Resources. (not offered 2024-2025)

HIST 249. Health and the Healer in Western History.
HIST 292. History and the Environment. (not offered 2024-2025)

NRSC 221. Environment and Health. (M) (not offered)

PHIL 221. Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2.
PHIL 230. Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1.
PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues.
PHIL 334. Ethical Theory.
PHIL 341. Philosophy of Science 1. (not offered 2024-2025)
PHIL 343. Biomedical Ethics.
PHIL 348. Philosophy of Law 1.

POLI 212. Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America. (not offered)
POLI 227. Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South.
POLI 345. International Organizations.
POLI 350. Global Environmental Politics.
POLI 412. Canadian Voting/Public Opinion. (not offered 2024-2025)
POLI 445. International Political Economy: Monetary Relations.
POLI 474. Inequality and Development. (not offered)

PSYC 215. Social Psychology.

RELG 270. Religious Ethics and the Environment.
RELG 370. Religion and Human Rights.

SOCI 222. Urban Sociology.
SOCI 234. Population and Society. (not offered 2024-2025)
SOCI 235. Technology and Society.
SOCI 254. Development and Underdevelopment.
SOCI 307. Globalization.
SOCI 365. Health and Development. (not offered)
SOCI 366. Neighborhoods and Inequality . (not offered 2024-2025)
SOCI 386. Contemporary Social Movements. (not offered 2024-2025)

URBP 201. Planning the 21st Century City. (not offered 2024-2025)
URBP 504. Planning for Active Transportation.
URBP 506. Environmental Policy and Planning.
URBP 530. Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context . (not offered 2023-2024)
URBP 551. Urban Design and Planning.

WCOM 314. Communicating Science.

Natural Sciences and Technology

** Note: You may take LSCI 230 or MIMM 211, but not both; you may take ENVB 529 or GEOG 201, but not both; you may take one of BREE 217, CIVE 323 or GEOG 322; you may take BIOL 308 or ENVB 305, but not both; you may take BIOL 465 or WILD 421, but not both; you may take COMP 202 or COMP 204, but not both; you may take EPSC 201 or EPSC 233, but not both; you may take GEOG 272 or SOIL 300, but not both.

AGRI 340. Principles of Ecological Agriculture. (M)

ANSC 326. Fundamentals of Population Genetics. (M)

ANTH 311. Primate Behaviour and Ecology. (not offered)

ATOC 214. Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere.
ATOC 215. Oceans, Weather and Climate.

BIOL 240. Monteregian Flora.
BIOL 305. Animal Diversity.
** BIOL 308. Ecological Dynamics.
BIOL 310. Biodiversity and Ecosystems.
BIOL 342. Global Change Biology of Aquatic Ecosystems.
BIOL 418. Freshwater Invertebrate Ecology.
BIOL 432. Limnology.
BIOL 436. Evolution and Society. (not offered 2024-2025)
** BIOL 465. Conservation Biology.

** BREE 217. Hydrology and Water Resources. (M)
BREE 322. Organic Waste Management. (M)
BREE 327. Bio-Environmental Engineering. (M)
BREE 518. Ecological Engineering. (M)

CHEM 212. Introductory Organic Chemistry 1.
CHEM 281. Inorganic Chemistry 1.

CIVE 225. Environmental Engineering.
**CIVE 323. Hydrology and Water Resources.
CIVE 550. Water Resources Management.

**COMP 202. Foundations of Programming.
**COMP 204. Computer Programming for Life Sciences.

ENVB 210. The Biophysical Environment. (M)
ENVB 301. Meteorology. (M) (not offered)
** ENVB 305. Population and Community Ecology. (M)
ENVB 410. Ecosystem Ecology. (M)
ENVB 415. Ecosystem Management. (M) (not offered)
** ENVB 529. GIS for Natural Resource Management. (M)

ENVR 200. The Global Environment.
ENVR 202. The Evolving Earth.
ENVR 422. Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis. (offered alternate years, in May term)

**EPSC 201. Understanding Planet Earth.
**EPSC 233. Earth and Life Through Time
EPSC 549. Hydrogeology.

ESYS 301. Earth System Modelling.

GEOG 200. Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems. (not offered 2024-2025)
** GEOG 201. Introductory Geo-Information Science.
GEOG 205. Global Change: Past, Present and Future.
** GEOG 272. Earth's Changing Surface.
GEOG 308. Remote Sensing for Earth Observation.
GEOG 321. Climatic Environments.
** GEOG 322. Environmental Hydrology.
GEOG 372. Running Water Environments. (not offered)
GEOG 470. Wetlands.
GEOG 550. Historical Ecology Techniques. (not offered)

** LSCI 230. Introductory Microbiology. (M)

MICR 331. Microbial Ecology. (M)

MIME 320. Extraction of Energy Resources.

** MIMM 211. Introductory Microbiology.
MIMM 214. Introductory Immunology: Elements of Immunity.
MIMM 323. Microbial Physiology.

NRSC 333. Pollution and Bioremediation. (M)

PARA 410. Environment and Infection. (M)
PARA 515. Water, Health and Sanitation. (M)

PHYS 228. Energy and the Environment.

PLNT 304. Biology of Fungi. (M) (not offered 2024-2025)
PLNT 305. Plant Pathology. (M)
PLNT 358. Flowering Plant Diversity. (M)
PLNT 460. Plant Ecology. (M)

** SOIL 300. Geosystems. (M) (not offered)

WILD 302. Fish Ecology.
WILD 421. Wildlife Conservation.