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

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

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Required Courses (27 credits)

27 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

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 of Economics 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 (6–18 credits)

  • 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
  • GEOG 512 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Field Research (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Area 2: Society, Economics, Policy, Ethics, and Equity (6–18 credits)

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 (6–18 credits)

  • 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 chosen from three areas listed below, of which at least 9 credits must be at the 300 level or higher, students must choose at least 6 cred (18 credits)

18 additional credits chosen from three areas listed below, of which at least 9 credits must be at the 300 level or higher, students must choose at least 6 credits from each area (1, 2, and 3)

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