Environment (Dip.)
30 credits · Bieler School of Environment · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Required Courses (18 credits)
- 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 (12 credits)
12 credits of complementary courses selected from the lists below With the approval of the Program Advisor, students will chose: 3 credits from outside the area of the student's previous degree (i.e. students with a BA must complete 3 credits from Natural Sciences and Technology; students with a BSc must complete 3 credits from Social Sciences and Policy). 9 credits from a specific area of focus, with at least 6 credits at the 400-level or above.
Social Sciences and Policy
- 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 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 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- 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 (3 credits)
- 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 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
- 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 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- NRSC 515 Water and Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- 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
Related programs
- Environment Major - Atmospheric Environment and Air Quality (B.Sc.)
- Environment Major - Biodiversity and Conservation (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)
- Environment Major - Earth Sciences and Economics (B.Sc.)
- Environment Major - Ecological Determinants of Health - Cellular (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)
- Environment Major - Ecological Determinants of Health - Population (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)
- Environment Major - Environmetrics (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)
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