Sustainability, Science and Society Honours (B.A. & Sc.)

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

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Required Courses (33 credits)

33 credits selected as follows:

Foundations of Sustainability

  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 360 Analyzing Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 401 Socio-Environmental Systems: Theory and Simulation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 460 Research in Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Honours Required Courses

Note: Students either take ENVR 495D1 Honours Research. and ENVR 495D2 Honours Research. (6 credits over consecutive terms) or ENVR 495N1 Honours Research. and ENVR 495N2 Honours Research. (6 credits over non-consecutive terms).

  • ENVR 495D1 Honours Research (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 495D2 Honours Research (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 495N1 Honours Research (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 495N2 Honours Research (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

Biophysical, Societal, Cultural, Institutional, and Ethical

  • ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Complementary Courses (27 credits)

Statistics (3 credits)

3 credits of Statistics from the following:

  • AEMA 310 Statistical Methods 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • BIOL 373 Biometry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • 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

Economics (3 credits)

3 credits from the following:

  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGEC 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Sustainability in Business (3 credits)

3 credits of Management from the following:

  • INSY 455 Technology and Innovation for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGCR 460 Social Context of Business (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 1: Methods: Observation, Analysis, Modelling, and Management

  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ESYS 301 Earth System Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ESYS 500 Collaborative Research Project (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 308 Remote Sensing for Earth Observation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 314 Geospatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 333 Introduction to Programming for Spatial Sciences (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 351 Quantitative Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 398 Field Studies in Human Geography (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 414 Advanced Geospatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 495 Field Studies - Physical Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • GEOG 509 Qualitative Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 2: Society, Economics, Policy, Ethics, and Equity

2A: Society, Economics, and Policy (3 credits)

3 credits from the following:

  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • 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
  • GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 316 Political Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • INDG 200 Introduction to Indigenous Studies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • INTD 364 Climate Change, Culture and Power (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • URBP 530 Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • URBP 553 Urban Governance (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

2B: Ethics and Equity (3 credits)

3 credits from the following:

  • ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • INTD 362 Political Ecologies of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 450 Ethics in Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHIL 349 Environmental Philosophy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 325 Sociology of Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 3: Sustainability and Biophysical Processes

  • ATOC 214 Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CHEM 462 Green Chemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ESYS 200 Earth-System Interactions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ESYS 300 Earth Data Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • 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
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 372 Running Water Environments (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 438 Sand in the Anthropocene (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 470 Wetlands (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 555 Ecological Restoration (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

18 additional credits of complementary courses chosen from three areas listed below. (18 credits)

18 additional credits of complementary courses chosen from three areas listed below.

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