Environment Major - Food Production and Environment (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or (B.Sc.)
63 credits · Bieler School of Environment · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Program Prerequisites or Corequisites
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, but does not include the domain prerequisites or corequisites listed above. 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 at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
Core: 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
Core: Complementary Course - Senior Research Project (3 credits)
Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.
Domain: Required Courses (6 credits)
Domain: Complementary Courses (36 credits)
36 credits of complementary courses selected as follows: 18 credits - Fundamentals 12 credits - Applied Sciences 6 credits - Social Sciences/Humanities The Applied and Social Sciences courses are grouped according to subtopics. Students can choose their courses from one subtopic, or a combination of subtopics.
Fundamentals (18 credits)
One of the following Statistics courses or equivalent:
Applied Sciences (12 credits)
Food and Human Health
- AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- FDSC 200 Introduction to Food Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- NUTR 207 Nutrition and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- NUTR 501 Nutrition in the Majority World (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- NUTR 505 Public Health Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHAR 303 Principles of Toxicology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Food Production
- AEBI 421 Tropical Horticultural Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- AEBI 425 Tropical Energy and Food (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- AGRI 215 Agro-Ecosystems Field Course (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- AGRI 325 Sustainable Agriculture Field Course (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ENTO 352 Biocontrol of Pest Insects (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PLNT 302 Forage Crops and Pastures (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PLNT 307 Agroecology of Vegetables and Fruits (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PLNT 353 Plant Structure and Function (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PLNT 430 Pesticides in Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PLNT 434 Weed Biology and Control (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- SOIL 315 Soil Nutrient Management (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Natural Resources and Natural Resource Impacts
- BIOL 343 Biodiversity in the Caribean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BREE 322 Management of Organic Residue (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BREE 518 Ecological Engineering (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- WILD 401 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Social Science (6 credits)
Economic and Resource Policy
- AGEC 320 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (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
- ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Social Change and Human Impacts
- ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- HIST 510 Environmental History of Latin America (Field) (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Environment Management
- AEBI 423 Sustainable Land Use (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- ANTH 418 Environment and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BREE 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
One of the following courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XU): (3 credits)
One of the following courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XU):
One of the following courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XV): (4 credits)
One of the following courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XV):
Students in Science should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Science.
Students in Science should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Science.
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