Faculty Program Environment - Ecological Determinants of Health in Society (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 (24 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
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Complementary Courses (30 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
  • SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Economics (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Health and Environment (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 493 Health and Environment in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PPHS 501 Population Health and Epidemiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PPHS 529 Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Nutrition (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • EDKP 292 Nutrition and Wellness (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 207 Nutrition and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 341 Global Food Security (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

List A: (9 credits)

9 credits from List A (with a maximum of 3 credits from any category):

Health and Society

  • SOCI 225 Medicine and Health in Modern Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 331 Population and Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Population and Place

  • ANTH 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EDKP 204 Health Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 510 Environmental History of Latin America (Field) (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 550 Developing Societies (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Agriculture

  • AEBI 425 Tropical Energy and Food (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AGRI 340 Principles of Ecological Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Decision Making

  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 440 Health Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Development and Ecology

  • 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
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • INTD 362 Political Ecologies of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Social Change and Influences

  • ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 430 The Economics of Well-Being (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 514 Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • INTD 362 Political Ecologies of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • INTD 364 Climate Change, Culture and Power (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

List B: (6 credits)

6 credits from List B (with a maximum of 3 credits from any category):

Biology Fundamentals

  • AEBI 210 Organisms 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AEBI 211 Organisms 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 200 Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • LSCI 211 Biochemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Advanced Ecology

  • AEBI 421 Tropical Horticultural Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • 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
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NRSC 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Techniques and Management

  • AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Immunology and Infectious Disease

  • MIMM 214 Introductory Immunology: Elements of Immunity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MIMM 314 Intermediate Immunology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MIMM 324 Fundamental Virology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MIMM 413 Parasitology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PARA 424 Fundamental Parasitology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PARA 438 Immunology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Hydrology and Climate

  • AGRI 452 Water Resources in Barbados (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

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