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Biodiversity and Conservation Domain
This domain is open only to students in the B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment or B.Sc. Major Environment program.
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Bachelor of Science (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Major Environment - Biodiversity and Conservation (63 credits)
This Domain (63 credits including Core) is open only to students in the B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major in Environment or B.Sc. Major in Environment program.
This Domain links the academic study of biological diversity with the applied field of conservation biology. The study of biological diversity, or "biodiversity", lies at the intersection of evolution with ecology and genetics, combining the subdisciplines of evolutionary ecology, evolutionary genetics and ecological genetics. It has two main branches, the creation of diversity and the maintenance of diversity. Both processes are governed by a general mechanism of selection acting over different scales of space and time. This gives rise to a distinctive set of principles and generalizations that regulate rates of diversification and levels of diversity, as well as the abundance or rarity of different species. Conservation biology constitutes the application of these principles in the relevant social and economic context to the management of natural systems, with the object of preventing the extinction of rare species and maintaining the diversity of communities. As the impact of industrialization and population growth on natural systems has become more severe, conservation has emerged as an important area of practical endeavour.
Suggested First Year (U1) Courses
For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "MSE Student Handbook 2010-11" available on the MSE website (/mse), or contact Ms. Kathy Roulet, the Program Advisor (kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca).
Program Requirements
NOTE: Students are required to take a maximum of 30 credits at the 200-level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400-level or higher in this program. This includes Core and Required courses.
Location Note: When planning their schedule and registering for courses, students should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Core: Required Courses (18 credits)
Location Note: Core required courses are taught at both ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Macdonald campus.
| ENVR 200 | (3) | The Global Environment |
| ENVR 201 | (3) | Society and Environment |
| ENVR 202 | (3) | The Evolving Earth |
| ENVR 203 | (3) | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment |
| ENVR 301 | (3) | Environmental Research Design |
| ENVR 400 | (3) | Environmental Thought |
Domain: Complementary Courses (42 credits)
42 credits of complementary courses are selected as follows:
9 credits - basic courses in the biological principles of diversity, systematics and conservation
3 credits - ecology
3 credits - statistics
9 credits - interface between science, policy and management
3 credits - field courses
6 credits - general scientific principles
3 credits - social science
6 credits - organisms and diversity
Biological Principles of Diversity/Systematics/Conservation:
9 credits are chosen from basic courses in the biological principles of diversity, systematics and conservation as follows:
Science, Policy and Management:
9 credits are chosen from interface between science, policy and management as follows:
* Note: you may take ECON 208 or AGEC 200 but not both.
| AGEC 200* | (3) | Principles of Microeconomics |
| AGRI 550 | (3) | Sustained Tropical Agriculture |
| ANTH 418 | (3) | Environment and Development |
| ECON 208* | (3) | Microeconomic Analysis and Applications |
| ECON 225 | (3) | Economics of the Environment |
| GEOG 302 | (3) | Environmental Management 1 |
| GEOG 370 | (3) | Protected Areas |
| GEOG 380 | (3) | Adaptive Environmental Management |
| GEOG 408 | (3) | Geography of Development |
| GEOG 410 | (3) | Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems |
Field Courses
one of:
| AGRI 452 | (3) | Water Resources in Barbados |
| BIOL 331 | (3) | Ecology/Behaviour Field Course |
| BIOL 334 | (3) | Applied Tropical Ecology |
| BIOL 553 | (3) | Neotropical Environments |
| GEOG 495 | (3) | Field Studies - Physical Geography |
| GEOG 497 | (3) | Ecology of Coastal Waters |
| GEOG 499 | (3) | Subarctic Field Studies |
| WILD 475 | (3) | Desert Ecology |
General Scientific Principles
6 credits of general scientific principles selected from the following:
* Note: you may take GEOG 306 or NRSC 430 but not both.
(A second field course from the Domain curriculum may also be taken)
| BIOL 324 | (3) | Ecological Genetics |
| BIOL 341 | (3) | History of Life |
| BIOL 342 | (3) | Marine Biology |
| BIOL 432 | (3) | Limnology |
| BIOL 441 | (3) | Biological Oceanography |
| BIOL 505 | (3) | Diversity and Systematics Seminar |
| ENVB 313 | (3) | Phylogeny and Biogeography |
| ENVB 315 | (3) | Science of Inland Waters |
| ENVB 410 | (3) | Ecosystem Ecology |
| GEOG 272 | (3) | Earth's Changing Surface |
| GEOG 306* | (3) | Raster Geo-Information Science |
| GEOG 321 | (3) | Climatic Environments |
| GEOG 322 | (3) | Environmental Hydrology |
| GEOG 350 | (3) | Ecological Biogeography |
| MICR 331 | (3) | Microbial Ecology |
| NRSC 430* | (3) | GIS for Natural Resource Management |
| NRSC 437 | (3) | Assessing Environmental Impact |
| PLNT 460 | (3) | Plant Ecology |
| WILD 311 | (3) | Ethology |
| WILD 410 | (3) | Wildlife Ecology |
| WOOD 420 | (3) | Environmental Issues: Forestry |
Social Science:
one of:
* Note: If WILD 415 is taken, 1 additional credit of complementary courses must be taken.
| AGEC 333 | (3) | Resource Economics |
| ANTH 339 | (3) | Ecological Anthropology |
| ANTH 416 | (3) | Environment/Development: Africa |
| ECON 326 | (3) | Ecological Economics |
| GEOG 404 | (3) | Environmental Management 2 |
| GEOG 498 | (3) | Humans in Tropical Environments |
| GEOG 510 | (3) | Humid Tropical Environments |
| URBP 520 | (3) | Globalization: Planning and Change |
| WILD 415* | (2) | Conservation Law |
Organisms and Diversity:
6 credits of organisms and diversity selected as follows:
* Note: you may take BIOL 350 or ENTO 350 but not both; you may take BIOL 540 or ENVR 540 but not both.
| AGRI 340 | (3) | Principles of Ecological Agriculture |
| ANTH 311 | (3) | Primate Behaviour and Ecology |
| BIOL 335 | (3) | Marine Mammals |
| BIOL 350* | (3) | Insect Biology and Control |
| BIOL 355 | (3) | Trees: Ecology & Evolution |
| BIOL 427 | (3) | Herpetology |
| BIOL 540* | (3) | Ecology of Species Invasions |
| ENTO 350* | (3) | Insect Biology and Control |
| ENTO 352 | (3) | Control of Insect Pests |
| ENTO 440 | (3) | Insect Diversity |
| ENVR 540* | (3) | Ecology of Species Invasions |
| PLNT 304 | (3) | Biology of Fungi |
| PLNT 358 | (3) | Flowering Plant Diversity |
| PLNT 458 | (3) | Flowering Plant Systematics |
| WILD 307 | (3) | Natural History of Vertebrates |
| WILD 350 | (3) | Mammalogy |
| WILD 420 | (3) | Ornithology |
| WILD 424 | (3) | Parasitology |
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ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
Faculty:
ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)