Environment Major - Ecological Determinants of Health - Population (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: You 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 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 for this program 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.

  • 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

Domain: Required Course (3 credits)

  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Domain: Complementary Courses (39 credits)

39 credits of complementary courses are selected as follows: 24 credits - Fundamentals, maximum of 3 credits from each category 6 credits - List A categories, maximum of 3 credits from any one category 9 credits - List B categories, maximum of 3 credits from any one category

Fundamentals (24 credits)

24 credits of fundamentals, 3 credits from each category:

Health and Environment

  • 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

Health and Society

  • GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PPHS 529 Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease (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

Toxicology

  • ANSC 312 Animal Health and Disease (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NUTR 512 Herbs, Foods and Phytochemicals (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHAR 303 Principles of Toxicology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Cellular Biology

  • ANSC 234 Biochemistry 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 201 Cell Biology and Metabolism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • LSCI 202 Molecular Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Molecular Biology

  • BIOL 200 Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • LSCI 211 Biochemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

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
  • MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

Nutrition

  • ANSC 433 Animal Nutrition and Metabolism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NUTR 207 Nutrition and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 307 Metabolism and Human Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

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 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 451 Research in Ecology and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

List A (6 credits)

6 credits from the following List A categories, maximum of 3 credits from any one category:

Hydrology, Climate, and Agriculture

  • AGRI 340 Principles of Ecological Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 341 Caribbean Climate and Weather (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • 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

Decision Making, Techniques and Management

  • AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (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 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Development and History

  • ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EDER 461 Society and Change (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NUTR 501 Nutrition in the Majority World (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

List B (9 credits)

9 credits from the following List B categories, maximum of 3 credits from any one category:

Immunology and Infectious Disease

  • ANSC 400 Eukaryotic Cells and Viruses (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • 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
  • PPHS 501 Population Health and Epidemiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Populations and Place

  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 300 Human Ecology in Geography (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 451 Research in Society and Development in Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NUTR 341 Global Food Security (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Pollution Control and Pest Management

  • BIOL 350 Insect Biology and Control (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BREE 322 Management of Organic Residue (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENTO 352 Biocontrol of Pest Insects (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 515 Water and Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Genetics

  • BIOL 202 Basic Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • LSCI 204 Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

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