Earth System Science Honours (B.Sc.)
66 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Required Courses (27 credits)
- ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ESYS 200 Earth-System Interactions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ESYS 300 Earth Data Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ESYS 301 Earth System Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ESYS 480D1 Honours Research Project (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ESYS 480D2 Honours Research Project (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ESYS 500 Collaborative Research Project (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MATH 222 Calculus 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- MATH 315 Ordinary Differential Equations (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
Complementary Courses (39 credits)
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- ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 300 Human Ecology in Geography (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
at least 3 credits from each of subject codes ATOC, EPSC, and GEOG. At least 9 of the 15 credits must be at the 400 level or higher. Note: Courses at the 300 le
at least 3 credits from each of subject codes ATOC, EPSC, and GEOG. At least 9 of the 15 credits must be at the 400 level or higher. Note: Courses at the 300 level or higher in other departments in the Faculties of Science and Engineering may also be used as complementary credits, with the permission of an academic adviser.
- ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 309 Weather Radars and Satellites (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 312 Rotating Fluid Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 315 Thermodynamics and Convection (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 404 Climate Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 512 Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 513 Waves and Stability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 515 Turbulence in Atmosphere and Oceans (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ATOC 519 Advances in Chemistry of Atmosphere (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 521 Cloud Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 525 Atmospheric Radiation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 531 Dynamics of Current Climates (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 540 Synoptic Meteorology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 541 Synoptic Meteorology 2 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 309 Mathematical Models in Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 441 Biological Oceanography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 540 Ecology of Species Invasions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 573 Vertebrate Palaeontology Field Course (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BREE 319 Engineering Mathematics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BREE 509 Hydrologic Systems and Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BREE 510 Watershed Systems Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BREE 533 Water Quality Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 212 Introductory Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EPSC 320 Elementary Earth Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EPSC 325 Environmental Geochemistry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 331 Field School 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- EPSC 334 Invertebrate Paleontology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 340 Earth and Planetary Inference (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 341 Field School 3 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 350 Tectonics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 355 Sedimentary Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EPSC 423 Igneous Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EPSC 425 Sediments to Sequences (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 445 Metamorphic Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- 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 525 Microbiology of the Earth System (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EPSC 530 Volcanology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EPSC 561 Ore-forming Processes (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 567 Advanced Volcanology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- EPSC 590 Applied Geochemistry Seminar (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 351 Quantitative Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 372 Running Water Environments (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 401 Socio-Environmental Systems: Theory and Simulation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 414 Advanced Geospatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 470 Wetlands (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 495 Field Studies - Physical Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
- GEOG 505 Global Biogeochemistry (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
- GEOG 535 Remote Sensing and Interpretation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 536 Geocryology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 550 Historical Ecology Techniques (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- MATH 314 Advanced Calculus (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- MATH 317 Numerical Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MATH 319 Partial Differential Equations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- MATH 323 Probability (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- MATH 326 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MATH 423 Applied Regression (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MATH 437 Mathematical Methods in Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- MATH 447 Introduction to Stochastic Processes (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- MATH 525 Sampling Theory and Applications (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHYS 331 Topics in Classical Mechanics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 340 Majors Electricity and Magnetism (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 342 Majors Electromagnetic Waves (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 404 Climate Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 432 Physics of Fluids (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
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