Environment Major - Earth Sciences and Economics (B.Sc.)

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 34 credits at the 200 level and a minimum of 15 credits at the 400 level or higher in this program. This includes core and required courses. Location Note: When planning your schedule and registering for courses, you should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Core: Required Courses (18 credits)

Location Note: Core required courses are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course that you plan to take 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

Core: Complementary Course - Senior Research Project (3 credits)

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

• 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

Domain: Required Courses (21 credits)

• ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 210 Introductory Mineralogy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• EPSC 212 Introductory Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• EPSC 220 Principles of Geochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• EPSC 240 Geology in the Field (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Domain: Complementary Courses (24 credits)

24 credits of complementary courses are selected as follows: 3 credits - Statistics courses 12 credits - Economic Resources 9 credits - Natural Resources

Statistics (3 credits)

One of the following Statistics courses or equivalent: Note: Credit given for Statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students in Science should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section 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

Economic Resources (12 credits)

12 credits from:

• AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
• ECON 305 Industrial Organization (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
• ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ECON 408 Public Sector Economics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• ECON 409 Public Sector Economics 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ECON 416 Topics in Economic Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ECON 511 Energy, Economy and Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• ECON 525 Project Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Natural Resources (9 credits)

9 credits from:

• AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ANTH 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• 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 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 325 Environmental Geochemistry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 331 Field School 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
• EPSC 341 Field School 3 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 355 Sedimentary Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• EPSC 425 Sediments to Sequences (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 452 Mineral Deposits (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 519 Isotopes in Earth and Environmental Science (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• EPSC 590 Applied Geochemistry Seminar (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• GEOG 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• MIME 320 Extraction of Energy Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
• NRSC 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
• SOIL 300 Geosystems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• SOIL 315 Soil Nutrient Management (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• SOIL 326 Soils in a Changing Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
• SOIL 535 Soil Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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