The Environment Minor (18 credits) is intended to complement the expertise gained through a Major, Major Concentration, Faculty Program, or Interfaculty Program outside the Bieler School of Environment. Students taking the Minor (or听Minor Concentration) in Environment are exposed to different approaches, perspectives, and world views that will help them gain an understanding of the complexity and the conflicts that underlie environmental problems.
You can declare your intention to do an Environment Minor after first consulting with your Major Program Adviser and the Bieler School of Environment听Program Adviser. You then submit to the Bieler School of Environment听Program Adviser a program of courses to be applied towards the Minor (both courses already taken and those to be taken), and register for the Minor Environment (or Minor Concentration Environment) on Minerva. Students in the Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences cannot register over Minerva; instead you must complete an application form together with the Bieler School of Environment听Program Adviser and submit it to the Student Affairs Office on the Macdonald Campus.
The Minor Environment is open to students in the Faculties of Science, Engineering, and Agricultural & Environmental Sciences.
The Minor Concentration Environment is open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Law, Music, and Management.
To obtain a Minor Environment (or Minor Concentration Environment) students must:
- Complete 18 credits of complementary courses (listed below). Note: There is no overlap allowed. Credits counted towards this Minor CANNOT be counted towards another program.
- Achieve a grade of C or higher in all courses counting towards the Minor (or Minor Concentration).
- Ensure that all credits from complementary courses are outside the discipline or field of the major program.
- Ensure that 6 credits of environmentally related subjects are selected with the approval of the program advisor and that at least 3 credits of these are in an area outside your broad area of study (ie. Arts, Law, Music, and Management students take at least 3 cr of natural sciences; Science, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, and Engineering students take at least 3 credits of social sciences)
- Ensure that all courses completed are at the 200-level or higher.
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
12 credits selected from the Bieler School of Environment听core courses:
Note: ENVR 203 is a pre-requisite for ENVR 400
Note: Students must be in U3 to take ENVR 400
6 credits of environmentally-related courses:
These should be selected听from the lists below.
- Both courses must be outside the discipline or field of your major program.
- At least 3 of the 6 credits must be outside the student's broad area of study (ie. Arts, Law, and Management students take at least 3 credits of Natural Sciences; Science, Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, and Engineering students take at least 3 credits of Social Sciences).
- Please note: some courses on below may be subject to other regulations. For example, Faculty of Science students should be aware that some of the courses listed here are Restricted Courses (for Science students) and they will not receive credit for them.
- Courses marked (M) are offered on the Macdonald Campus.
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Social Sciences and Policy
(M)
(M)
(M)
(M)
(M)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
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(offered alternate years, in May term)
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(not offered)
(not offered)
(not offered)
(not offered)
(not offered)
(in Africa)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(M)听
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2024-2025)
(not offered 2023-2024)
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Natural Sciences and Technology
** Note: You may take LSCI 230 or MIMM 211, but not both; you may take ENVB 529 or GEOG 201, but not both; you may take one of BREE 217, CIVE 323 or GEOG 322; you may take BIOL 308 or ENVB 305, but not both; you may take BIOL 465 or WILD 421, but not both; you may take COMP 202 or COMP 204, but not both; you may take EPSC 201 or EPSC 233, but not both; you may take SOIL 300 or GEOG 272, but not both.
(M)
(M)
(not offered)
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(not offered 2024-2025)
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** (M)
(M)
(M)
(M)
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**
(M)
(M) (not offered)
** (M)
(M)
(M) (not offered)
** (M)
(offered alternate years, in May term)
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**
(M)
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(not offered)
(not offered)
**(M)
(M)
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(M)
(M)
(M)
(M) (not offered 2024-2025)
(M)
(M)
(M)
** (M) (not offered)
(M)
** (M)听
See also Information for Students听for details听concerning:
- 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