Faculty Program Environment - Environment and Development (B.A.)

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

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Program Requirements (0–30 credits)

Students may take up to 30 credits at the 200 level and must take no fewer than 12 credits at the 400 level or above. This includes required and complementary courses.

Required Courses (30 credits)

  • 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
  • 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
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Complementary Courses (24 credits)

Senior Research Project (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • 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)

3 credits from:

  • 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

Economics (3 credits)

3 credit from:

  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

Advanced Development Courses (6 credits)

6 credits from:

  • AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (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
  • GEOG 514 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 525 Asian Cities in the 21st Century (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • INTD 360 Environmental Challenges in Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • INTD 362 Political Ecologies of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Natural Sciences (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AEBI 421 Tropical Horticultural Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 341 Caribbean Climate and Weather (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 343 Biodiversity in the Caribean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 210 The Biophysical Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NUTR 501 Nutrition in the Majority World (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 505 Public Health Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Social Sciences (6 credits)

6 credits from:

  • AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AEBI 425 Tropical Energy and Food (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • 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
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 311 Economic Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 331 Urban Social Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 496 Geographical Excursion (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 514 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • 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
  • INTD 360 Environmental Challenges in Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • INTD 362 Political Ecologies of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • INTD 364 Climate Change, Culture and Power (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 331 Population and Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WCOM 314 Communicating Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

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