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This program is open only to students in the B.Sc. or B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment.

See also Information for StudentsÌýfor details concerning:

• Suggested First Year Courses
• Taking courses onÌýboth campuses
• ENVR course sections - beware!
• In this Concentration, intermediate calculus (AEMA 202 or MATH 222) is a required course.Ìý 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).ÌýÌý

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:Ìý 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,Environ&Sustainability
ENVR 202 - The Evolving Earth
ENVR 203 - Knowledge, Ethics&Environment
ENVR 301 - Environmental Research Design
ENVR 400 - Environmental Thought

Core: Complementary Course — Senior Research Project (3 credits*)

AEBI 427 - Barbados Interdisc Project (M) (in Barbados)
ENVR 401 - Environmental Research
ENVR 451 - Research in Panama (in Panama)
FSCI 444 - Barbados Research Project (in Barbados)
GEOG 451 - Res in Society & Dev 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 - Intro:Physics of the Atmosph
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 & Community Ecology (M)

3 credits Statistics:

AEMA 310 - Statistical Methods 1 (M)
BIOL 373 - Biometry (no longer offered)
GEOG 202 - Statistics & 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 Caribbean (in Barbados)
GEOG 495 - Field Studies-Physical Geog (at Mont St. Hilaire)
WILD 401 - Fisheries&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 - Eng for Land Development (M) (not offered 2024-2025)
BREE 420 - Eng for Sustainability (M)
BREE 506 - Adv in Drainage Management (M) (not offered 2024-2025)
BREE 509 - Hydrologic Systems & Modelling (M)Ìý
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 Mgmt (M)
or GEOG 201 - Intro Geo-Information Science

ENVB 530 - Adv GIS for Natural Res Mgmt (M)
or GEOG 506 - Adv Geographic Information Sci (not offered 2024-2025)

EPSC 549 - Hydrogeology
GEOG 308 - Rem Sens for Earth Observation
GEOG 314 - Geospatial Analysis
GEOG 537 - Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology (not offered)

MATH 315 - Ordinary Differential Eqns
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 - Glob Chng Biol of Aquat Ecosys Ìý
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 & Water Resources (not offered 2024-2025)
WILD 302 - Fish Ecology (M)
WILD 421 - Wildlife Conservation (M)