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Science Academic Plans

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Honours Co-operative Environmental Science (Geoscience Specialization)

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.

Continuation in Honours Environmental Sciences, Geoscience Specialization, requires a cumulative overall average of 60% and a cumulative average of 60% in all EARTH courses.

Successful completion of this program requires:
  1. 21.75 units that include:
  2. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement

Notes

  1. The Faculty of Arts Program elective should be taken in Year Three.
  2. The Faculty of Arts Program elective is recommended to be a course in oral or written communication (e.g. SPCOM 223, ENGL 109, ENGL 129R, ENGL 140R, ENGL 209, ENGL 210E, ENGL 210F or PHIL 145).
  3. SCI and EARTH courses may not be counted as Program elective options.
  4. A maximum of 1.5 SCI units may be counted as elective courses.

Recommended Course Sequence


Year One

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
One elective (0.5 unit)
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
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences

Year Two

Fall
BIOL 240/BIOL 240L Fundamentals of Microbiology/Laboratory
EARTH 123/EARTH 123L Introductory Hydrology/Field Methods in Hydrology
EARTH 231 Mineralogy
EARTH 235 Stratigraphic Approaches to Understanding Earth's History
One elective (0.5 unit)
Spring
EARTH 221 Geochemistry 1
EARTH 232 Petrography
Three program electives (1.5 units)

Year Three

Winter
EARTH 238 Introductory Structural Geology
EARTH 333 Introductory Sedimentology
EARTH 358 Earth System Science
EARTH 390 Methods in Geological Mapping
ERS 215 Environmental and Sustainability Assessment I
One EARTH elective 200-level or higher (0.5 unit)
Fall
EARTH 342 Applied Geomorphology
STAT 202 Introductory Statistics for Scientists
Two EARTH electives 300-level or higher (1.0 unit)
One Program elective (0.5 unit)

Year Four

Fall
EARTH 436A Honours Thesis
 or EARTH 499 Research Project (0.5 units)
EARTH 440 Quaternary Geology
EARTH 444 Applied Wetland Science
One Program elective (0.5 unit)
One elective (0.5 unit)
Winter
EARTH 436B Honours Thesis
 or One EARTH elective 300-level or higher (0.5 unit)
One EARTH elective 300-level or higher (0.5 unit)
One Program elective (0.5 unit)
Two electives (1.0 unit)

 


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