Environment Major - Land Surface Processes and Environmental Change (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 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.

  • 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

Domain Required Course (3 credits)

  • GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Domain: Complementary Courses (39 credits)

39 credits of complementary courses are selected as follows: 9 credits - 3 credits from each category of Statistics, Geographic Information Systems, Weather and Climate 9 credits of fundamental land surface processes 3 credits of environment and resource management 3 credits of field course 3 credits of social science 12 credits total of advanced studies chosen from List A: Particular Environments and List B: Surface Processes

Statistics (3 credits)

3 credits from one of 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

Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Weather and Climate (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 341 Caribbean Climate and Weather (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 301 Meteorology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Fundamental Land Surface Processes (9 credits)

9 credits total of fundamental land surface processes chosen as follows:

Environment and Resource Management (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CIVE 225 Environmental Engineering (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 530 Advanced GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 422 Montreal Urban Sustainability Analysis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ESYS 301 Earth System Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 308 Remote Sensing for Earth Observation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 506 Advanced Geographic Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 530 Global Land and Water Resources (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOIL 315 Soil Nutrient Management (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WOOD 441 Integrated Forest Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Field Course (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • ATOC 333 Tropical Weather and Climate Field Course (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 343 Biodiversity in the Caribean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 495 Field Studies - Physical Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • GEOG 496 Geographical Excursion (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WILD 475 Desert Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Social Science (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVR 421 Montreal: Environmental History and Sustainability (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 510 Environmental History of Latin America (Field) (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 350 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WCOM 314 Communicating Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

List A - Particular Environments (3–9 credits)

3-9 credits of advanced study of Particular Environments:

  • BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 372 Running Water Environments (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 470 Wetlands (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 550 Historical Ecology Techniques (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PLNT 358 Flowering Plant Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

List B - Surface Processes (3–9 credits)

3-9 credits of advanced study of Surface Processes:

  • ATOC 315 Thermodynamics and Convection (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 509 Hydrologic Systems and Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 325 Environmental Geochemistry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 401 Socio-Environmental Systems: Theory and Simulation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 505 Global Biogeochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOIL 535 Soil Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

0-3 credits chosen from: (0–3 credits)

0-3 credits chosen from:

  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

0-3 credits from: (0–3 credits)

0-3 credits from:

  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOIL 300 Geosystems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

0-3 credits from: (0–3 credits)

0-3 credits from:

  • ENVB 210 The Biophysical Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

0-3 credits from: (0–3 credits)

0-3 credits from:

  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

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