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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Faculty Program Environment - Environment and Development (54 credits)
The quest for sustainable paths to economic development requires scholars and practitioners to transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines. This Domain offers students sufficient depth and breadth of study to acquire a strong grasp of current theories, concepts, and approaches to environment and development. It prepares them for graduate study in interdisciplinary programs (e.g., development studies or environmental studies) as well as in integrative social sciences (e.g., anthropology, geography, etc.).
Program Prerequisites or Corequisites
All B.A. Environment students must take these courses, or their equivalents. These courses should be taken in the Freshman year if possible. Quebec students can take them in U1.
Suggested First Year (U1) Courses
For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "MSE Student Handbook 2010-11" available on the MSE website (/mse), or contact Ms. Kathy Roulet, the Program Advisor (kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca).
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.
Location Note: When planning their schedule and registering for courses, students should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both Â鶹AV's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Core: Required Courses (18 credits)
Location Note: Core required courses are taught at both Â鶹AV'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 |
Domain: Complementary Courses (21 credits)
21 credits of complementary courses are chosen from various domains as follows:
Statistics
3 credits, one of the following statistics courses or equivalent:
Note: Credit given for statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Arts.
| AEMA 310 | (3) | Statistical Methods 1 |
| GEOG 202 | (3) | Statistics and Spatial Analysis |
| MATH 203 | (3) | Principles of Statistics 1 |
| PSYC 204 | (3) | Introduction to Psychological Statistics |
Natural Sciences
3 credits from:
| AGRI 550 | (3) | Sustained Tropical Agriculture |
| BIOL 308 | (3) | Ecological Dynamics |
| BIOL 465 | (3) | Conservation Biology |
| BIOL 553 | (3) | Neotropical Environments |
| ENVB 305 | (3) | Population & Community Ecology |
| GEOG 305 | (3) | Soils and Environment |
| GEOG 322 | (3) | Environmental Hydrology |
| NUTR 403 | (3) | Nutrition in Society |
| NUTR 501 | (3) | Nutrition in Developing Countries |
| PARA 410 | (3) | Environment and Infection |
Social Sciences
6 credits from:
| AGEC 333 | (3) | Resource Economics |
| AGEC 442 | (3) | Economics of International Agricultural Development |
| AGRI 210 | (3) | Agro-Ecological History |
| AGRI 452 | (3) | Water Resources in Barbados |
| ANTH 439 | (3) | Theories of Development |
| ANTH 445 | (3) | Property and Land Tenure |
| CANS 407 | (3) | Regions of Canada |
| ECON 326 | (3) | Ecological Economics |
| ECON 405 | (3) | Natural Resource Economics |
| GEOG 201 | (3) | Introductory Geo-Information Science |
| GEOG 300 | (3) | Human Ecology in Geography |
| GEOG 311 | (3) | Economic Geography |
| GEOG 331 | (3) | Urban Social Geography |
| GEOG 380 | (3) | Adaptive Environmental Management |
| GEOG 404 | (3) | Environmental Management 2 |
| GEOG 408 | (3) | Geography of Development |
| GEOG 416 | (3) | Africa South of the Sahara |
| GEOG 496 | (3) | Geographical Excursion |
| GEOG 498 | (3) | Humans in Tropical Environments |
| GEOG 508 | (3) | Resources, People and Power |
| GEOG 510 | (3) | Humid Tropical Environments |
| GEOG 551 | (3) | Environmental Decisions |
| MGPO 440 | (3) | Strategies for Sustainability |
| POLI 445 | (3) | International Political Economy: Monetary Relations |
| POLI 472 | (3) | Developing Areas/Social Movements |
| SOCI 565 | (3) | Social Change in Panama |
| URBP 507 | (3) | Planning and Infrastructure |
| URBP 520 | (3) | Globalization: Planning and Change |
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Â鶹AV School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
Faculty:
Â鶹AV School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)