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Bachelor of Arts and Science (B.A. & Sc.) - Interfaculty Program Environment (54 credits)

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The growth of technology, globalization of economies, and rapid increases in population and per capita consumption have all had dramatic environmental impacts. The Interfaculty Program Environment for the Bachelor of Arts and Science is designed to provide students with a broad "Liberal Arts/Science" training. In combination with careful mentoring, this program offers a great degree of flexibility, allowing students to develop the skills and knowledge base required to face the myriad of environmental problems that currently need to be addressed.

Program Requirements

1. Students are required to take a maximum of 21 credits at the 200-level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400-level or higher in this program. This includes Required courses.

2. Students must complete at least 30 credits in the Faculty of Arts and at least 30 in the Faculty of Science as part of their interfaculty program and their minor or minor concentration. ENVR courses are considered courses in both Arts and Science, and so the credits are split between the two faculties for the purpose of this regulation.

3. Students are also required to complete the required integrative course BASC 201 (3) Arts and Science Integrative Topics.

Location Note: When planning your schedule and registering for courses, you should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught on both À¦°óSMÉçÇø's downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.

Required Courses (18 credits)

Location Note: Core required courses are taught at both À¦°óSMÉçÇø's downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Macdonald campus.

ENVR 200 (3) The Global Environment
ENVR 201 (3) Society and Environment
ENVR 202 (3) The Evolving Earth
ENVR 203 (3) Knowledge, Ethics and Environment
ENVR 301 (3) Environmental Research Design
ENVR 400 (3) Environmental Thought

Complementary Courses (36 credits)

36 credits of Complementary Courses are selected as follows:

3 credits - Senior Research Project

3 credits - Statistics

30 credits - chosen from amongst 12 Areas of focus

Senior Research Project

Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.

AGRI 519 (6) Sustainable Development Plans
ENVR 401 (3) Environmental Research
ENVR 451 (6) Research in Panama

Statistics:

one of:

AEMA 310 (3) Statistical Methods 1
BIOL 373 (3) Biometry
GEOG 202 (3) Statistics and Spatial Analysis
MATH 203 (3) Principles of Statistics 1
PSYC 204 (3) Introduction to Psychological Statistics

Areas:

30 credits from at least 3 of the following Areas. At least 6 credits must be at the 400-level or higher, selected either from these lists or in consultation with the Program Advisor.

Area 1: Population, Community and Ecosystem Ecology

* Note: you may take BIOL 540 or ENVR 540 but not both.

BIOL 308 (3) Ecological Dynamics
BIOL 432 (3) Limnology
BIOL 441 (3) Biological Oceanography
BIOL 540* (3) Ecology of Species Invasions
ENVB 305 (3) Population & Community Ecology
ENVB 410 (3) Ecosystem Ecology
ENVR 540* (3) Ecology of Species Invasions
GEOG 350 (3) Ecological Biogeography
PLNT 460 (3) Plant Ecology
WILD 410 (3) Wildlife Ecology

Area 2: Biodiversity and Conservation

BIOL 305 (3) Animal Diversity
BIOL 341 (3) History of Life
BIOL 355 (3) Trees: Ecology & Evolution
BIOL 427 (3) Herpetology
BIOL 465 (3) Conservation Biology
ENTO 440 (3) Insect Diversity
MICR 331 (3) Microbial Ecology
PLNT 358 (3) Flowering Plant Diversity
WILD 307 (3) Natural History of Vertebrates
WILD 350 (3) Mammalogy
WILD 420 (3) Ornithology

Area 3: Field studies in ecology and conservation

BIOL 240 (3) Monteregian Flora
BIOL 331 (3) Ecology/Behaviour Field Course
BIOL 334 (3) Applied Tropical Ecology
BIOL 553 (3) Neotropical Environments
GEOG 495 (3) Field Studies - Physical Geography
GEOG 499 (3) Subarctic Field Studies
WILD 475 (3) Desert Ecology

Area 4: Hydrology and water resources

* Note: you may take only one of: GEOG 322, BREE 217 or CIVE 323.

BREE 217* (3) Hydrology and Water Resources
CIVE 323* (3) Hydrology and Water Resources
EPSC 549 (3) Hydrogeology
GEOG 322* (3) Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 372 (3) Running Water Environments
GEOG 522 (3) Advanced Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 537 (3) Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology
NRSC 540 (3) Socio-Cultural Issues in Water

Area 5: Human Health

* Note: you may take ANSC 330 or NUTR 307 but not both; you may take PHAR 303 or NUTR 420 but not both.

ANSC 330* (3) Fundamentals of Nutrition
NUTR 307* (3) Human Nutrition
NUTR 420* (3) Toxicology and Health Risks
PARA 410 (3) Environment and Infection
PATH 300 (3) Human Disease
PHAR 303* (3) Principles of Toxicology

Area 6: Earth and soil sciences

ATOC 215 (3) Oceans, Weather and Climate
EPSC 201 (3) Understanding Planet Earth
GEOG 272 (3) Earth's Changing Surface
GEOG 305 (3) Soils and Environment
GEOG 321 (3) Climatic Environments
SOIL 326 (3) Soils in a Changing Environment

Area 7: Economics

* Note: you may take AGEC 200 or ECON 208 but not both.

AGEC 200* (3) Principles of Microeconomics
AGEC 333 (3) Resource Economics
ECON 208* (3) Microeconomic Analysis and Applications
ECON 326 (3) Ecological Economics
ECON 347 (3) Economics of Climate Change
ECON 405 (3) Natural Resource Economics
GEOG 216 (3) Geography of the World Economy

Area 8: Development and Underdevelopment

ANTH 212 (3) Anthropology of Development
ANTH 418 (3) Environment and Development
ECON 313 (3) Economic Development 1
ECON 314 (3) Economic Development 2
GEOG 408 (3) Geography of Development
GEOG 410 (3) Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems
POLI 227 (3) Developing Areas/Introduction
POLI 445 (3) International Political Economy: Monetary Relations
SWRK 374 (3) Community Development/Social Action

Area 9: Cultures and People

ANTH 206 (3) Environment and Culture
ANTH 339 (3) Ecological Anthropology
GEOG 210 (3) Global Places and Peoples

Area 10: Human Ecology and Health

ANTH 227 (3) Medical Anthropology
GEOG 300 (3) Human Ecology in Geography
GEOG 303 (3) Health Geography
PHIL 343 (3) Biomedical Ethics
SOCI 225 (3) Medicine and Health in Modern Society
SOCI 309 (3) Health and Illness

Area 11: Spirituality, Philosophy, Thought

EDER 461 (3) Society and Change
PHIL 220 (3) Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 1
PHIL 221 (3) Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2
PHIL 237 (3) Contemporary Moral Issues
PHIL 341 (3) Philosophy of Science 1
PHIL 348 (3) Philosophy of Law 1
RELG 270 (3) Religious Ethics and the Environment
RELG 340 (3) Religion and the Sciences
RELG 370 (3) Religion and Human Rights

Area 12: Environmental Management

* Note: If WILD 415 is taken, 1 additional credit of complementary courses must be taken.

AGRI 210 (3) Agro-Ecological History
AGRI 435 (3) Soil and Water Quality Management
AGRI 452 (3) Water Resources in Barbados
ENTO 336 (3) Economic Entomology
GEOG 302 (3) Environmental Management 1
GEOG 380 (3) Adaptive Environmental Management
GEOG 404 (3) Environmental Management 2
NRSC 333 (3) Pollution and Bioremediation
NRSC 382 (3) Ecological Monitoring and Analysis
NRSC 383 (3) Land Use: Redesign and Planning
NRSC 437 (3) Assessing Environmental Impact
SOIL 335 (3) Soil Ecology and Management
WILD 401 (4) Fisheries and Wildlife Management
WILD 415* (2) Conservation Law
WOOD 441 (3) Integrated Forest Management
À¦°óSMÉçÇø School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
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