Environment Minor (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)

18 credits · Bieler School of Environment · 2026-2027 catalogue

Environment Minor (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.) as a checklist, with when each course runs in 2026–27. On a computer, check off the courses you have taken or plan to take to add up your credits.

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Complementary Courses (18 credits)

18 credits of complementary courses, all of which must fall outside the discipline or field of the student's major program or concentration, and which must be 200-level or above, selected as follows:

Social Sciences and Policy (3–6 credits)

3-6 credits from:

  • AGEC 231 Economic Systems of Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • 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
  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (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
  • ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 205 An Introduction to Political Economy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: 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
  • EDER 494 Human Rights and Ethics in Practice (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 200 Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 423 Dilemmas of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NRSC 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 221 Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 230 Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 237 Contemporary Moral Issues (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • PHIL 334 Ethical Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHIL 341 Philosophy of Science 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 348 Philosophy of Law 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 212 Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 227 Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 412 Canadian Voting/Public Opinion (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PSYC 215 Social Psychology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 222 Urban Sociology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 235 Technology and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 366 Neighborhoods and Inequality (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 386 Contemporary Social Movements (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • URBP 201 Planning the 21st Century City (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • URBP 504 Planning for Active Transportation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • URBP 530 Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • URBP 551 Urban Design and Planning (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WCOM 314 Communicating Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Natural Sciences and Technology (0–3 credits)

0-3 credits from:

  • AGRI 340 Principles of Ecological Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANSC 326 Fundamentals of Population Genetics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ATOC 214 Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 240 Monteregian Flora (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 305 Animal Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 342 Global Change Biology of Aquatic Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 418 Freshwater Invertebrate Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 436 Evolution and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BREE 322 Management of Organic Residue (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 327 Bio-Environmental Engineering (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 518 Ecological Engineering (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • CHEM 281 Inorganic Chemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CIVE 225 Environmental Engineering (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CIVE 323 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CIVE 550 Water Resources Management (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • COMP 204 Computer Programming for Life Sciences (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVB 210 The Biophysical Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 201 Understanding Planet Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • EPSC 233 Earth and Life Through Time (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ESYS 301 Earth System Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • FDSC 230 Organic Chemistry (4 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • GEOG 200 Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 205 Global Change: Past, Present and Future (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 308 Remote Sensing for Earth Observation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 470 Wetlands (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • LSCI 230 Introductory Microbiology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MIME 320 Extraction of Energy Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MIMM 211 Introductory Microbiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MIMM 214 Introductory Immunology: Elements of Immunity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MIMM 323 Microbial Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 515 Water and Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 228 Energy and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 304 Biology of Fungi (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 305 Plant Pathology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 358 Flowering Plant Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WILD 302 Fish Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

12 credits of core courses selected from: (12 credits)

12 credits of core courses selected from:

  • 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 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

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