Geography Liberal Program - Core Science Component (B.Sc.)
49 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Required Courses (13 credits)
- GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 290 Local Geographical Excursion (1 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 351 Quantitative Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
Complementary Courses (36 credits)
Geography Approved Course List - Major, Honours and Liberal Programs
- GEOG 401 Socio-Environmental Systems: Theory and Simulation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 404 Environmental Management 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- 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
- GEOG 555 Ecological Restoration (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
3 credits of statistics 1 (3 credits)
3 credits of statistics 1
- BIOL 373 Biometry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 202 Statistics and Spatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- PSYC 204 Introduction to Psychological Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
9 credits of systematic physical geography (9 credits)
9 credits of systematic physical geography
- 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 372 Running Water Environments (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 373 Arctic Geomorphology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 470 Wetlands (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 471 Arctic System Science (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
3 or 6 credits of environmental analysis/techniques (3–6 credits)
3 or 6 credits of environmental analysis/techniques
3 or 6 credits (In Environment, Earth System and Sustainability Sciences) (3–6 credits)
3 or 6 credits (In Environment, Earth System and Sustainability Sciences)
- 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
- ESYS 200 Earth-System Interactions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ESYS 300 Earth Data Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 360 Analyzing Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 438 Sand in the Anthropocene (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 460 Research in Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
9 credits on human-environment linkages (9 credits)
9 credits on human-environment linkages
- GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- GEOG 311 Economic Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- GEOG 315 Urban Transportation Geography (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
3 credits of field courses: (3 credits)
3 credits of field courses:
Remaining credits (3 credits)
3 credits of approved advanced courses in Geography, or elsewhere in the Faculty of Science that have been approved by the Program Adviser, including any geography courses from the above complementary lists.
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