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:
- Majors and Concentrations
- Suggested First Year courses
- Taking courses Outside your Faculty or on the "Other" campus (Science students, in particular, need to be aware of the Restricted Courses list)
- ENVR course sections - beware!
- Statistics course(s) overlap
- Your Faculty's Student Affairs Office
Program Requirements
NOTE: You 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.
Organic Chemistry (CHEM 212 or FDSC 230) is a co- and/or pre-requisite for the courses in the Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology categories in this program.
In this domain, BIOL 112 or AEBI 122 is required as a pre-requisite for NUTR 207, a complementary course in the Nutrition category.Ìý As well, Organic Chemistry (CHEM 212 or FDSC 230) is a co-requisite for NUTR 207.
Core: Required Courses (18 cr)
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 cr*)
AEBI 427 - Barbados Interdisc Project (in Barbados)
ENVR 401 - Environmental Research
ENVR 451 - Research in Panama (in Panama)
FSCI 444 - Barbados Research Project (in Barbados)
* Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.
Concentration: Required course (3 cr)
PARA 410 - Environment and Infection (M)
Concentration: Complementary courses - Fundamentals (24 cr)
3 credits from each Category
Health and Environment
GEOG 221 - Environment and Health (not offered)
NRSC 221 - Environment and Health (M) (not offered)
GEOG 303 - Health Geography
Health and Society
GEOG 403 - Global Health & Envir. Change (not offered)
GEOG 503 - Advanced Topics in Health Geog
PPHS 529 - Global Env Hlth&Burden/Disease (U3 students only)
SOCI 234 - Population & Society (not offered 2024-2025)
SOCI 309 - Health and Illness
SOCI 331 - Population and Environment (not offered 2024-2025)
Toxicology
ANSC 312 - Animal Health and Disease (M)
ENVB 500 - Advanced Topics Ecotoxicology (M) (offered fall 2024 and alternate years)
NUTR 512 - Herbs, Foods&Phytochemicals (M)
PHAR 303 - Principles of Toxicology
Cellular Biology
Note: You will not receive credit for either LSCI 211 or LSCI 202 if you have already received credit for both BIOL 200 and BIOL 201; you will not receive credit for either BIOL 200 or BIOL 201 if you have already received credit for both LSCI 202 and LSCI 211.
ANSC 234 - Biochemistry 2 (M)
BIOL 201 - Cell Biology & Metabolism
LSCI 202 - Molecular Cell Biology (M)
Molecular Biology
Note: You will not receive credit for either LSCI 211 or LSCI 202 if you have already received credit for both BIOL 200 and BIOL 201; you will not receive credit for either BIOL 200 or BIOL 201 if you have already received credit for both LSCI 202 and LSCI 211.
BIOL 200 - Molecular Biology
LSCI 211 - Biochemistry 1 (M)
Statistics
AEMA 310 - Statistical Methods 1 (M)
MATH 203 - Principles of Statistics 1
or equivalent
Nutrition
ANSC 433 - Animal Nutrition & Metabolism (M)
NUTR 207 - Nutrition and Health (M)
NUTR 307 - Metabolism and Human Nutrition (M)
Advanced Ecology
Note: You may take ENVR 540 or BIOL 540, but not both; you may take BIOL 451 or NRSC 451, but not both.
AEBI 421 - Trop. Horticultural Ecology (M) (in Barbados)
BIOL 451 - Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa (in Africa)
BIOL 465 - Conservation Biology
BIOL 553 - Neotropical Environments (in Panama)
ENVB 410 - Ecosystem Ecology (M)
ENVR 540 - Ecology of Species Invasions
BIOL 540 - Ecology of Species Invasions
MICR 331 - Microbial Ecology (M)
NRSC 451 - Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa (M) (in Africa)
PLNT 460 - Plant Ecology (M)
Concentration: Complementary Courses - List A (6 cr)
Maximum 3 cr from any one category:
Hydrology, Climate, and Agriculture
AGRI 340 - Princ of Ecological Agricult (M)
AGRI 550 - Sustained Tropical Agriculture (M) (offered alternate years; in Panama)
ATOC 341 - Caribbean Climate and Weather (in Barbados)
BREE 217 - Hydrology and Water Resources (M)
GEOG 321 - Climatic Environments
GEOG 322 - Environmental Hydrology
Decision Making, Techniques and Management
Note: You may take AGEC 200 or ECON 208, but not both; you may take ENVB 529 or GEOG 201, but not both.
AEBI 423 - Sustainable Land Use (M) (in Barbados)
AGEC 200 - Principles of Microeconomics (M)
AGEC 333 - Resource Economics (M)
ECON 208 - Microeconomic Analysis&Applic
ENVB 529 - GIS for Natural Resource Mgmt (M)
ENVB 437 - Assessing Environmental Impact (M)
ENVR 422 - Mtl Urban Sustainability Anal (offered alternate years, in May term)
GEOG 201 - Intro Geo-Information Science
GEOG 302 - Environmental Management 1 Ìý
GEOG 340 - Sustain. in the Caribbean (in Barbados)
GEOG 404 - Environmental Management 2 (in Africa)
PHIL 343 - Biomedical Ethics
Or, advanced quantitative methods course (with approval of Adviser)
Development and History
ANTH 212 - Anthropology of Development
EDER 461 - Society and Change
HIST 292 - History and the Environment (not offered)
NUTR 501 - Nutrition: the Majority World (M)
SOCI 254 - Development&Underdevelopment
Concentration: Complementary Courses - List B (9 cr)
Maximum 3 cr from any one category
Immunology and Infectious Disease
ANSC 400 - Eukaryotic Cells and Viruses (M)
MIMM 214 - Intro Immun: Elem of Immunity
MIMM 314 - Intermediate Immunology
MIMM 324 - Fundamental Virology
MIMM 413 - Parasitology
PARA 424 - Fundamental Parasitology (M)
PARA 438 - Immunology (M)
PPHS 501 - Population Health&Epidemiology
Population and Place
Note: You may take ANTH 451 or GEOG 451, but not both.
AGRI 411 - Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr (M)
ANTH 451 - Res in Society & Dev in Africa (in Africa)
ENVR 421 - Mtl:Envr Hist & Sustainability (offered alternate years, in May term)
GEOG 300 - Human Ecology in Geography (not offered)
GEOG 451 - Res in Society & Dev in Africa (in Africa)
GEOG 498 - Humans in Tropical Envirnmnts (offered alternate years; in Panama)
NUTR 341 - Global Food Security (M)
Pollution Control and Pest Management
Note: You may take BIOL 350 or ENTO 350, but not both.
BIOL 350 - Insect Biology and Control (not offered)
BREE 322 - Organic Waste Management (M)
ENTO 350 - Insect Biology and Control (M) (not offered)
ENTO 352 - Biocontrol of Pest Insects (M) (not offered 2024-2025)
NRSC 333 - Pollution and Bioremediation (M)
PARA 515 - Water, Health and Sanitation (M)
Genetics
BIOL 202 - Basic Genetics
LSCI 204 - Genetics (M)