Environment Interfaculty Program (B.A. & Sc.)

54 credits · Bachelor of Arts and Science · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (18 credits)

Location Note: Core required courses are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-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 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 301 Environmental Research Design (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Complementary Courses (36 credits)

Senior Research Project

Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.

  • AEBI 427 Barbados Interdisciplinary Project (6 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • ENVR 401 Environmental Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 451 Research in Panama (6 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • FSCI 444 Barbados Research Project (6 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Statistics (3 credits)

One of:

  • AEMA 310 Statistical Methods 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • GEOG 202 Statistics and Spatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • PSYC 204 Introduction to Psychological Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Areas (30 credits)

30 credits from at least three of the following Areas. At least 6 credits must be at the 400 level or higher, selected either from these lists or in consultation with the Program Adviser.

Area 1: Population, Community, and Ecosystem Ecology

  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 342 Global Change Biology of Aquatic Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 441 Biological Oceanography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVR 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Area 2: Biodiversity and Conservation

  • BIOL 305 Animal Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 343 Biodiversity in the Caribean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 427 Herpetology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 358 Flowering Plant Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 307 Natural History of Vertebrates (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 350 Mammalogy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WILD 420 Ornithology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 3: Field Studies in Ecology and Conservation

  • BIOL 240 Monteregian Flora (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 331 Ecology/Behaviour Field Course (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 334D1 Applied Tropical Ecology (1.5 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 334D2 Applied Tropical Ecology (1.5 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 335 Marine Mammals (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 495 Field Studies - Physical Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • WILD 475 Desert Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Area 4: Hydrology and Water Resources

* Note: If chosen, you may take only one of: GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology. , BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources. , or CIVE 323 Hydrology and Water Resources. . ** Note: If chosen, you may take EPSC 522 Advanced Environmental Hydrology. or GEOG 522 Advanced Environmental Hydrology. .

  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CIVE 323 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 522 Advanced Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 470 Wetlands (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 522 Advanced Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Area 5: Human Health

  • NUTR 307 Metabolism and Human Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PATH 300 Human Disease (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHAR 303 Principles of Toxicology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Area 6: Earth and Soil Sciences

  • ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 341 Caribbean Climate and Weather (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 201 Understanding Planet Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Area 7: Economics

Note: If chosen, you may take AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics. or ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. .

  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 511 Energy, Economy and Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 8: Development and Underdevelopment

  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 418 Environment and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 325 New Master-Planned Cities (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 423 Dilemmas of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 227 Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Area 9: Cultures and People

  • ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 510 Environmental History of Latin America (Field) (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Area 10: Human Ecology and Health

  • ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 225 Medicine and Health in Modern Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Area 11: Spirituality, Philosophy, and Thought

  • ANTH 318 Globalization and Religion (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EDER 461 Society and Change (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 221 Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 237 Contemporary Moral Issues (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • PHIL 341 Philosophy of Science 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PHIL 348 Philosophy of Law 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 12: Environmental Management

  • AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • COMS 360 Environmental Communication (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WCOM 314 Communicating Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • WILD 401 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WOOD 441 Integrated Forest Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

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