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2023-2024

The Undergraduate Calendar

 

 

Environment Academic Plans

Geomatics

Joint Honours Geomatics

Advisors: See Faculty of Environment undergraduate advising.

Continuing in Joint Honours Geomatics requires a minimum cumulative special average of 60% (all CS and MATH courses) and a cumulative major average of 70% (all ENVS and GEOG courses).

Joint plans offered by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management cannot be combined with other plans offered within the department.

Successful completion requires:

  1. 8.5 units distributed as follows:
    • One of:
      • CS 115 Introduction to Computer Science 1
      • CS 135 Designing Functional Programs
    • One of:
      • CS 116 Introduction to Computer Science 2
      • CS 136 Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction (see 2: additional conditions)
    • CS 234 Data Types and Structures
    • CS 338 Computer Applications in Business: Databases
    • ENVS 278 Applied Statistics for Environmental Research
    • One of:
    • GEOG 271 Earth from Space Using Remote Sensing
    • GEOG 281/PLAN 281 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
    • GEOG 310 Geodesy and Surveying
    • GEOG 371 Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques
    • GEOG 381/PLAN 381 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
    • GEOG 387/PLAN 387 Spatial Databases
    • GEOG 471 Remote Sensing Project (1.0 unit)
    • GEOG 481/PLAN 481 Geographic Information Systems Project (1.0 unit)
    • One of:

Additional conditions:

  1. The Environment Academic Regulations section of this Calendar contains information, regulations, and requirements pertaining to undergraduate studies within the Faculty. It is students' responsibility to familiarize themselves with the content of this section.
  2. Students who opt to take CS 136 are required to take CS 136L (0.25 unit) as they are listed corequisites. CS 136L is graded as CR or NCR (Credit or No Credit). There is no numerical grade value associated with a CR or NCR grade. A CR grade in CS 136L will be used towards the total unit requirement, but it is not required for this plan.

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