Environmental and Sustainability Course Lists

Environmental and Sustainability Science Core (33 credits)

9	credits: • BIOL 225 Form and Function of Organisms (3.00) • BIOL 226 Biodiversity and Ecology (3.00) • GEOG 290 Environment and Society (3.00)
3	credits: • GEOG 264 Programming for Environmental Sciences (3.00)
6	credits: • GEOG 272 The Natural Environment: Air and Water (3.00) • GEOL 210 Introduction to the Earth (3.00)
3	credits chosen from: • CHEM 212 Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Environmental and Sustainability Science (3.00) • CHEM 217 Introductory Analytical Chemistry I (3.00)
3	credits: • CHEM 283 Air, Water and Soil Processes (3.00)
6	credits: • BIOL 322 Biostatistics (3.00) • GEOG 363 Geographic Information Systems (3.00)
3	credits: • GEOG 487 Capstone Seminar in Environmental Science (3.00)

Earth Systems and Climate Science Stream (30 credits)

9	credits: • GEOG 375 Hydrology (3.00) • GEOG 377 Landform Evolution (3.00) • GEOG 378 The Climate System (3.00)
6	credits chosen from: • BIOL 351 Basic Population Ecology (3.00) • BIOL 353 Communities and Ecosystems (3.00) • CHEM 234 Physical Chemistry I: Thermodynamics (3.00) • CIVI 361 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3.50) • GEOG 355 Resource Analysis and Management (3.00) • GEOG 371 Landscape Ecology (3.00) • GEOG 374 Plant Ecology (3.00) • GEOL 216 Field Methods (3.00) • GEOL 302 Palaeobiology (3.00) Note: Environmental and Sustainability Science students missing the prerequisites for CIVI 361 may apply to have all or some of these waived by the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
3	credits chosen from: • GEOG 463 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3.00) • GEOG 465 Remote Sensing (3.00)
12	credits chosen from: • BIOL 457 Conservation Biology (3.00) • BIOL 459 Aquatic Ecology (3.00) • CHEM 458 Aquatic Biogeochemistry (3.00) • GEOG 407 Indigenous Peoples and the Environment (3.00) • GEOG 467 Environmental Modelling (3.00) • GEOG 470 Environmental Management (3.00) • GEOG 475 Water Resource Management (3.00) • GEOG 476 Indigenous and Environmental History of Americas since 1492 (3.00) • GEOG 478 Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Policy (3.00) • GEOG 479 Primate Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation (3.00) • GEOL 440 Seminar in Current Research on Environmental Earth Science (3.00) • CIVI 467 Air Pollution and Emission Control (3.00) • CIVI 468 Waste Management (3.00) • CIVI 469 Geo‑Environmental Engineering (3.50) Note: GEOG 467 may only be taken by students enrolled in the Honours in Environmental and Sustainability Science. Note: Environmental and Sustainability Science students missing the prerequisites for CIVI 467, CIVI 468 or CIVI 469 may apply to have all or some of these waived by the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering.