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Environment and Development Domain

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Environment and Development Domain

This domain is open only to students in the B.A. Faculty Program in Environment.

Advisor Mentor
  • Ms. Kathy Roulet
  • Email: kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca
  • Telephone: 514-398-4306
  • Prof. Gregory Mikkelson
  • Email: gregory.mikkelson [at] mcgill.ca
  • Telephone: 514-398-4583

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Faculty Program Environment - Environment and Development (54 credits)

The quest for sustainable paths to economic development requires scholars and practitioners to transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines. This Domain offers students sufficient depth and breadth of study to acquire a strong grasp of current theories, concepts, and approaches to environment and development. It prepares them for graduate study in interdisciplinary programs (e.g., development studies or environmental studies) as well as in integrative social sciences (e.g., anthropology, geography, etc.).

Program Prerequisites or Corequisites

All B.A. Environment students must take these courses, or their equivalents. These courses should be taken in the Freshman year if possible. Quebec students can take them in U1.

Calculus

3 credits of calculus from the following, or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective OOUN):

MATH 139 (4) Calculus 1 with Precalculus
MATH 140 (3) Calculus 1

Basic Science

3 credits of basic science from the following, or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objectives: Biology OOUK, Chemistry OOUL, Physics OOUR):

BIOL 111 (3) Principles: Organismal Biology
CHEM 110 (4) General Chemistry 1
PHYS 101 (4) Introductory Physics - Mechanics

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

Core: Complementary Course - Senior Research Project (3 credits)

Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.

AGRI 519 (6) Sustainable Development Plans
ENVR 401 (3) Environmental Research
ENVR 451 (6) Research in Panama

Domain: Required Courses (12 credits)

ANTH 339 (3) Ecological Anthropology
ECON 313 (3) Economic Development 1
ECON 314 (3) Economic Development 2
GEOG 302 (3) Environmental Management 1

Domain: Complementary Courses (21 credits)

21 credits of complementary courses are chosen from various domains as follows:

Microeconomics

one of:

AGEC 200 (3) Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 208 (3) Microeconomic Analysis and Applications

Statistics

3 credits, one of the following statistics courses or equivalent:

Note: Credit given for statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Arts.

AEMA 310 (3) Statistical Methods 1
GEOG 202 (3) Statistics and Spatial Analysis
MATH 203 (3) Principles of Statistics 1
PSYC 204 (3) Introduction to Psychological Statistics

Advanced Development Courses

6 credits from:

AGEC 442 (3) Economics of International Agricultural Development
ANTH 418 (3) Environment and Development
GEOG 408 (3) Geography of Development
GEOG 410 (3) Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems

Natural Sciences

3 credits from:

AGRI 550 (3) Sustained Tropical Agriculture
BIOL 308 (3) Ecological Dynamics
BIOL 465 (3) Conservation Biology
BIOL 553 (3) Neotropical Environments
ENVB 305 (3) Population & Community Ecology
GEOG 305 (3) Soils and Environment
GEOG 322 (3) Environmental Hydrology
NUTR 403 (3) Nutrition in Society
NUTR 501 (3) Nutrition in Developing Countries
PARA 410 (3) Environment and Infection

Social Sciences

6 credits from:

AGEC 333 (3) Resource Economics
AGEC 442 (3) Economics of International Agricultural Development
AGRI 210 (3) Agro-Ecological History
AGRI 452 (3) Water Resources in Barbados
ANTH 439 (3) Theories of Development
ANTH 445 (3) Property and Land Tenure
CANS 407 (3) Regions of Canada
ECON 326 (3) Ecological Economics
ECON 405 (3) Natural Resource Economics
GEOG 201 (3) Introductory Geo-Information Science
GEOG 300 (3) Human Ecology in Geography
GEOG 311 (3) Economic Geography
GEOG 331 (3) Urban Social Geography
GEOG 380 (3) Adaptive Environmental Management
GEOG 404 (3) Environmental Management 2
GEOG 408 (3) Geography of Development
GEOG 416 (3) Africa South of the Sahara
GEOG 496 (3) Geographical Excursion
GEOG 498 (3) Humans in Tropical Environments
GEOG 508 (3) Resources, People and Power
GEOG 510 (3) Humid Tropical Environments
GEOG 551 (3) Environmental Decisions
MGPO 440 (3) Strategies for Sustainability
POLI 445 (3) International Political Economy: Monetary Relations
POLI 472 (3) Developing Areas/Social Movements
SOCI 565 (3) Social Change in Panama
URBP 507 (3) Planning and Infrastructure
URBP 520 (3) Globalization: Planning and Change
ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
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