Environment Major - Biodiversity and Conservation (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)

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

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Suggested First Year (U1) Courses

For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "Bieler School of Environment Student Handbook" available on the website ( http://www.mcgill.ca/environment ).

Program Requirements

Note: Students are required to take a maximum of 30 credits at the 200 level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400 level or higher in this program. This includes core and required courses. Location Note: When planning their schedule and registering for courses, students should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Required Courses (18 credits)

Location Note: ENVR courses are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and Macdonald campus. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course on the Downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course on the Macdonald campus.

  • 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 (45 credits)

Senior Research Project (3 credits)

3 credits from:

3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives. 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

Biological Principles of Diversity/ Systematics/ Conservation

Ecology (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Statistics (3 credits)

3 credits from the following Statistics courses or equivalent: Note: Other appropriate statistics courses may be approved as substitutions by the Program Adviser. Credit given for Statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students in the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Science should consult the “Course Overlap” information in the “Course Requirements” section of the Course Catalogue for the Faculty of Science.

  • 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

Science, Policy, and Management (9 credits)

9 credits from:

  • AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 360 Analyzing Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 312 Urban Horticulture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WCOM 314 Communicating Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Field Courses (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • BIOL 240 Monteregian Flora (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 331 Ecology/Behaviour Field Course (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 334D1 Applied Tropical Ecology (1.5 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 334D2 Applied Tropical Ecology (1.5 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 335 Marine Mammals (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENTO 340 Field Entomology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 495 Field Studies - Physical Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • PLNT 358 Flowering Plant Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WILD 401 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 475 Desert Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WOOD 441 Integrated Forest Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

General Scientific Principles (6 credits)

6 credits from:

  • ANSC 326 Fundamentals of Population Genetics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ATOC 341 Caribbean Climate and Weather (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 202 Basic Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 216 Biology of Behaviour (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 324 Ecological Genetics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 342 Global Change Biology of Aquatic Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 441 Biological Oceanography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 515 Advances in Aquatic Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BREE 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 313 Phylogeny and Biogeography (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • LSCI 204 Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOIL 315 Soil Nutrient Management (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 314 Geospatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Social Science (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANSC 555 The Use and Welfare of Animals (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 416 Environment/Development: Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Organisms and Diversity (6 credits)

6 credits from:

  • AEBI 421 Tropical Horticultural Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AGRI 340 Principles of Ecological Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 343 Biodiversity in the Caribean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 352 Dinosaur Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 427 Herpetology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 510 Advances in Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENTO 330 Insect Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PARA 424 Fundamental Parasitology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 304 Biology of Fungi (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 434 Weed Biology and Control (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • REDM 400 Science and Museums (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WILD 307 Natural History of Vertebrates (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 350 Mammalogy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WILD 420 Ornithology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 350 Insect Biology and Control (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

3 credits from: (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AEBI 212 Evolution and Phylogeny (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 304 Evolution (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

3 credits from: (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AEBI 211 Organisms 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 305 Animal Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

3 credits from: (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

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