Environment Major - Renewable Resource Management (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 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, 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)

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.

  • 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: Complementary Courses (42 credits)

42 credits of complementary courses are selected as follows: 9 credits - Basic Principles of Ecosystem Processes and Diversity 6 credits - 3 credits from each category of Statistics and GIS 6 credits - Advanced Ecosystem Components 6 credits - Advanced Ecological Processes 6 credits - Social Processes 9 credits - Ecosystem Components or Management of Ecosystems

Basic Principles of Ecosystem Processes (9 credits)

9 credits of basic principles of ecosystem processes and diversity are selected as follows:

Statistics (3 credits)

One of:

  • AEMA 310 Statistical Methods 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • BIOL 373 Biometry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

GIS Methods (3 credits)

One of:

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

Advanced Ecosystem Components (6 credits)

6 credits of advanced ecosystem components selected from:

  • BIOL 553 Neotropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 372 Running Water Environments (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PLNT 358 Flowering Plant Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOIL 326 Soils in a Changing Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WILD 307 Natural History of Vertebrates (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Advanced Ecological Processes (6 credits)

6 credits of advanced ecological processes selected from:

  • BIOL 343 Biodiversity in the Caribean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 500 Advanced Topics in Ecotoxicology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Social Processes (6 credits)

6 credits of social processes selected as follows:

  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (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 340 Sustainability in the Caribbean (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 498 Humans in Tropical Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Ecosystem Components or Management of Ecosystems (9 credits)

9 credits of ecosystem components or management of ecosystems selected from:

  • AGRI 452 Water Resources in Barbados (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • AGRI 550 Sustained Tropical Agriculture (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 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 200 Introduction to Crop Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WILD 401 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • WOOD 441 Integrated Forest Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

One of the following biology courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XU): (3 credits)

One of the following biology courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XU):

  • BIOL 112 Cell and Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • LSCI 211 Biochemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

One of the following chemistry courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XV): (4 credits)

One of the following chemistry courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XV):

  • CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • FDSC 230 Organic Chemistry (4 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

One of: (3 credits)

One of:

  • AEBI 210 Organisms 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AEBI 211 Organisms 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 305 Animal Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

One of: (3 credits)

One of:

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

One of: (3 credits)

One of:

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

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