Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
This program provides a basic quantitative background in science and mathematics, while offering students greater opportunity to select courses in a wide range of environment-related subject areas, such as chemistry, ecology, microbiology, geography, and hydrogeology. Students will acquire the knowledge base required to assess the environmental impact of surface and subsurface contamination from industry, urbanization, agriculture, and mining. Graduates will be prepared for employment in any area dealing with environmental issues and legislation, particularly in government and the environmental consulting industry.
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* It is required that one course (0.5 unit) be taken from the Faculty of Arts. It is recommended that a course in oral or written communication be selected (e.g. SPCOM 223, ENGL 109, ENGL 129R, ENGL 140R, ENGL 209, ENGL 210E, ENGL 210F, or PHIL 145).
** Five courses (2.5 units) must be either a 200-level or higher course from BIOL, CHEM, PHYS, MATH, AMATH or CS, or be chosen from BIOL 130, CS 115, or CS 116. SCI-labelled and EARTH-labelled courses cannot be used to satisfy these core electives.
Year 1A (Fall)
BIOL 150 Organismal and Evolutionary Ecology
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
EARTH 121/EARTH 121L Introductory Earth Sciences/Laboratory
PHYS 111/PHYS 111L Physics 1/Laboratory
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
Year 1B (Winter)
BIOL 120 Introduction to Plant Structure and Function
CHEM 123/CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
EARTH 122/EARTH 122L Introductory Environmental Sciences/Laboratory
Two electives (1.0 unit)
Year 2A (Fall)
EARTH 123/EARTH 123L Introductory Hydrology/Field Methods in Hydrology
EARTH 231 Mineralogy
EARTH 235 Stratigraphic Approaches to Understanding Earth's History
ERS 215 Environmental and Sustainability Assessment I
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 2B (Winter)
BIOL 240/BIOL 240L Fundamentals of Microbiology/Laboratory
EARTH 221 Geochemistry 1
EARTH 232 Petrography
EARTH 238 Introductory Structural Geology
One 200-level EARTH course (0.5 unit)
Year 3A (Fall)
EARTH 342 Applied Geomorphology
STAT 202 Statistics for Scientists
One 300- or 400-level EARTH course (0.5 unit)
One core elective*(0.5 unit)
Arts Core*(0.5 unit)
Year 3B (Winter)
EARTH 333 Introductory Sedimentology
EARTH 358 Earth System Science
EARTH 390 Methods in Geological Mapping
One 300- or 400-level EARTH course (0.5 unit)
Two core electives**(1.0 unit)
Year 4A (Fall)
EARTH 436A Honours Thesis
or EARTH 499 Research Project
EARTH 440 Quaternary Geology
EARTH 444 Applied Wetland Science
One core elective**(0.5 unit)
One elective (0.5 unit)
Year 4B (Winter)
EARTH 436B Honours Thesis
or One 300- or 400-level EARTH course
One 300- or 400-level EARTH course (0.5 unit)
One core elective**(0.5 unit)
Two electives (1.0 unit)