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This 18-credit Minor is intended for Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science students and Faculty of Science students, but is open to students from other faculties as well, except Arts and Law.
Advising Note:
Consultation with the Program Advisor for approval of course selection to meet program requirements is obligatory. Only courses at the 200-level and above will be approved.
For information about Minor in Environment please contact:
Ms. Kathy Roulet, MSE Program Advisor
E-mail: (kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca)
Telephone: 514-398-4306
12 credits of MSE Core courses:
Location Note: MSE core 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 400 | (3) | Environmental Thought |
6 credits of environmentally related courses selected with the approval of the Program Advisor (at least 3 credits must be in social sciences). A list of Suggested Courses is given below.
Suggested Courses List
The Suggested Courses List is divided into two Thematic Categories: Social Sciences and Policy; and Natural Sciences and Technology.
Most courses listed at the 300-level and higher have prerequisites. You are urged to prepare your program of study with this in mind.
This list is not meant to be exhaustive. You are also encouraged to examine the course lists of the various Domains in the Environment program for other courses that might interest you. Courses not on the Suggested Courses list may be included in the Minor with the permission of the MSE Program Advisor.
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 at both À¦°óSMÉçÇø's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Social Sciences and Policy
* Note: If WILD 415 is taken, 1 additional credit of complementary courses must be taken.
AGEC 231 | (3) | Economic Systems of Agriculture |
AGEC 333 | (3) | Resource Economics |
AGEC 430 | (3) | Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy |
AGEC 442 | (3) | Economics of International Agricultural Development |
AGRI 210 | (3) | Agro-Ecological History |
AGRI 411 | (3) | Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture |
ANTH 206 | (3) | Environment and Culture |
ANTH 212 | (3) | Anthropology of Development |
ANTH 339 | (3) | Ecological Anthropology |
ANTH 512 | (3) | Political Ecology |
CIVE 433 | (3) | Urban Planning |
ECON 205 | (3) | An Introduction to Political Economy |
ECON 225 | (3) | Economics of the Environment |
ECON 326 | (3) | Ecological Economics |
ECON 347 | (3) | Economics of Climate Change |
ECON 405 | (3) | Natural Resource Economics |
ENVR 201 | (3) | Society and Environment |
ENVR 203 | (3) | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment |
ENVR 400 | (3) | Environmental Thought |
GEOG 200 | (3) | Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems |
GEOG 210 | (3) | Global Places and Peoples |
GEOG 216 | (3) | Geography of the World Economy |
GEOG 221 | (3) | Environment and Health |
GEOG 300 | (3) | Human Ecology in Geography |
GEOG 301 | (3) | Geography of Nunavut |
GEOG 302 | (3) | Environmental Management 1 |
GEOG 303 | (3) | Health Geography |
GEOG 370 | (3) | Protected Areas |
GEOG 382 | (3) | Principles Earth Citizenship |
GEOG 403 | (3) | Global Health and Environmental Change |
GEOG 408 | (3) | Geography of Development |
GEOG 410 | (3) | Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems |
GEOG 508 | (3) | Resources, People and Power |
GEOG 530 | (3) | Global Land and Water Resources |
GEOG 551 | (3) | Environmental Decisions |
MGPO 440 | (3) | Strategies for Sustainability |
NRSC 221 | (3) | Environment and Health |
NRSC 437 | (3) | Assessing Environmental Impact |
NRSC 512 | (3) | Water: Ethics, Law and Policy |
NRSC 540 | (3) | Socio-Cultural Issues in Water |
PHIL 230 | (3) | Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1 |
PHIL 237 | (3) | Contemporary Moral Issues |
PHIL 334 | (3) | Ethical Theory |
PHIL 343 | (3) | Biomedical Ethics |
PHIL 348 | (3) | Philosophy of Law 1 |
POLI 211 | (3) | Comparative Government and Politics |
POLI 212 | (3) | Government and Politics - Developed World |
POLI 227 | (3) | Developing Areas/Introduction |
POLI 345 | (3) | International Organizations |
POLI 445 | (3) | International Political Economy: Monetary Relations |
POLI 466 | (3) | Public Policy Analysis |
PSYC 215 | (3) | Social Psychology |
RELG 270 | (3) | Religious Ethics and the Environment |
RELG 340 | (3) | Religion and the Sciences |
RELG 370 | (3) | Religion and Human Rights |
RELG 376 | (3) | Religious Ethics |
SOCI 222 | (3) | Urban Sociology |
SOCI 234 | (3) | Population and Society |
SOCI 235 | (3) | Technology and Society |
SOCI 254 | (3) | Development and Underdevelopment |
SOCI 386 | (3) | Contemporary Social Movements |
URBP 201 | (3) | Planning the 21st Century City |
URBP 506 | (3) | Environmental Policy and Planning |
URBP 530 | (3) | Urban Environmental Planning |
WILD 415* | (2) | Conservation Law |
Natural Sciences and Technology
*Note: you may take MIMM 211 or LSCI 230 but not both; you may take ENVB 315 or BIOL 432 but not both.
AGRI 340 | (3) | Principles of Ecological Agriculture |
AGRI 435 | (3) | Soil and Water Quality Management |
ANSC 326 | (3) | Fundamentals of Population Genetics |
ANTH 311 | (3) | Primate Behaviour and Ecology |
ARCH 375 | (2) | Landscape |
ARCH 377 | (3) | Energy, Environment and Buildings |
ARCH 378 | (3) | Site Usage |
ATOC 215 | (3) | Oceans, Weather and Climate |
BIOL 240 | (3) | Monteregian Flora |
BIOL 305 | (3) | Animal Diversity |
BIOL 308 | (3) | Ecological Dynamics |
BIOL 310 | (3) | Biodiversity and Ecosystems |
BIOL 342 | (3) | Marine Biology |
BIOL 418 | (3) | Freshwater Invertebrate Ecology |
BIOL 432* | (3) | Limnology |
BIOL 436 | (3) | Evolution and Society |
BIOL 465 | (3) | Conservation Biology |
BREE 217 | (3) | Hydrology and Water Resources |
BREE 322 | (3) | Organic Waste Management |
BREE 518 | (3) | Bio-Treatment of Wastes |
BTEC 502 | (3) | Biotechnology Ethics and Society |
CHEE 230 | (3) | Environmental Aspects of Technology |
CHEE 430 | (3) | Technology Impact Assessment |
CHEM 212 | (4) | Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 |
CHEM 281 | (3) | Inorganic Chemistry 1 |
CHEM 462 | (3) | Green Chemistry |
CIVE 225 | (4) | Environmental Engineering |
CIVE 323 | (3) | Hydrology and Water Resources |
CIVE 550 | (3) | Water Resources Management |
ENTO 340 | (3) | Field Entomology |
ENVB 210 | (3) | The Biophysical Environment |
ENVB 301 | (3) | Meteorology |
ENVB 305 | (3) | Population & Community Ecology |
ENVB 315* | (3) | Science of Inland Waters |
ENVB 410 | (3) | Ecosystem Ecology |
ENVB 415 | (3) | Ecosystem Management |
ENVR 200 | (3) | The Global Environment |
ENVR 202 | (3) | The Evolving Earth |
EPSC 201 | (3) | Understanding Planet Earth |
EPSC 233 | (3) | Earth and Life History |
EPSC 425 | (3) | Sediments to Sequences |
EPSC 549 | (3) | Hydrogeology |
ESYS 301 | (3) | Earth System Modelling |
GEOG 200 | (3) | Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems |
GEOG 201 | (3) | Introductory Geo-Information Science |
GEOG 205 | (3) | Global Change: Past, Present and Future |
GEOG 272 | (3) | Earth's Changing Surface |
GEOG 308 | (3) | Principles of Remote Sensing |
GEOG 321 | (3) | Climatic Environments |
GEOG 322 | (3) | Environmental Hydrology |
GEOG 372 | (3) | Running Water Environments |
GEOG 470 | (3) | Wetlands |
LSCI 230* | (3) | Introductory Microbiology |
MICR 331 | (3) | Microbial Ecology |
MIME 308 | (3) | Social Impact of Technology |
MIME 320 | (3) | Extraction of Energy Resources |
MIMM 211* | (3) | Introductory Microbiology |
MIMM 314 | (3) | Immunology |
MIMM 323 | (3) | Microbial Physiology |
MIMM 324 | (3) | Fundamental Virology |
NRSC 333 | (3) | Pollution and Bioremediation |
NRSC 340 | (3) | Global Perspectives on Food |
NRSC 384 | (3) | Field Research Project |
NRSC 430 | (3) | GIS for Natural Resource Management |
NRSC 510 | (3) | Agricultural Micrometeorology |
NRSC 514 | (3) | Freshwater Ecosystems |
PARA 410 | (3) | Environment and Infection |
PARA 515 | (3) | Water, Health and Sanitation |
PLNT 304 | (3) | Biology of Fungi |
PLNT 305 | (3) | Plant Pathology |
PLNT 358 | (3) | Flowering Plant Diversity |
PLNT 426 | (3) | Plant Ecophysiology |
PLNT 430 | (3) | Plant Disease Epidemiology |
PLNT 460 | (3) | Plant Ecology |
SOIL 300 | (3) | Geosystems |
WILD 410 | (3) | Wildlife Ecology |
WILD 421 | (3) | Wildlife Conservation |