This program is open only to students in the B.Arts Faculty Program Environment.
What is development, and how can it be made to be sustainable? The Environment and Development concentration is an introduction to theories, concepts and approaches associated with the complexities between environment and development. The problems and solutions to the development/environmental crisis, which include: the natural world; theories behind economic development and growth, and of the cultural constructs of nature and environment; knowledge of global economic and environmental organizations; and sustainability and the climate crisis.
Pre-requisite or Co-requisite Courses for Program
To graduate from the Faculty Program in Environment, students are required to complete two pre-/co-requisite courses. These courses should be completed by the end of your U1 year. These 100-level courses, if taken exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling this program pre-/co-requisite requirement, may be taken using the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Option. Contact the Bieler School of Environment's Program Adviser for more information.
Numeracy course:
One of the following calculus courses -
MATH 139 - Calculus 1 with Precalculus
MATH 140 - Calculus 1
or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00UN)
AND Science course:
One of the following science courses -
BIOL 111 - Principles:Organismal Biology
CHEM 110 - General Chemistry 1
PHYS 101 - Intro Physics - Mechanics
or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objectives Biology 00UK, Chemistry 00UL, Physics 00UR, or equivalent)
See also Information for students for details concerning:
- Majors and Concentrations
- Suggested First Year courses
- Taking courses Outside your Faculty or on the "Other" campus (Science students, in particular, need to be aware of the Restricted Courses list)
- ENVR course sections - beware!
- Numeracy requirement for B.A. Faculty Program Environment students
- Statistics course(s) overlap
- Your Faculty's Student Affairs Office
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.
Required Courses (30 credits)
ANTH 339 - Ecological Anthropology
ECON 313 - Economic Development 1
ECON 314 - Economic Development 2
ENVR 200 - The Global Environment
ENVR 201 - Society,Environ&Sustainability
ENVR 202 - The Evolving Earth
ENVR 203 - Knowledge, Ethics&Environment
ENVR 301 - Environmental Research Design
ENVR 400 - Environmental Thought
GEOG 302 - Environmental Management 1
Complementary Courses (24 credits)
Senior Research Project
3 credits from:
AEBI 427 - Barbados Interdisc Project (6 cr) (M) (in Barbados)
ENVR 401 - Environmental Research (3 cr)
ENVR 451 - Research in Panama (6 cr) (in Panama)
FSCI 444 - Barbados Research Project (6 cr) (in Barbados)
GEOG 451 - Res in Society & Dev in Africa (6 cr) (in Africa)
* Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.
Microeconomics
3 credits from:
AGEC 200 - Principles of Microeconomics (M)
ECON 208 - Microeconomic Analysis&Applic
Statistics
3 credits from:
AEMA 310 - Statistical Methods 1 (M)
GEOG 202 - Statistics & Spatial Analysis
MATH 203 - Principles of Statistics 1
PSYC 204 - Intro to Psychological Stats
or equivalent
Advanced Development Courses
6 credits from:
AGEC 442 - Econ of Int'l Agric Dvlpmnt (M)
AGRI 411 - Global Issues on Dev, Food&Agr (M)
GEOG 408 - Geography of Development
GEOG 409 - Geographies of Developing Asia
GEOG 423 - Dilemmas of Development (in Africa)
GEOG 514 - Clim Change Vulnblty & Adapt
GEOG 525 - Asian Cities in the 21st C (not offered 2024-2025)
Natural Sciences
3 credits from:
*Note: If chosen, you may take BIOL 308 or ENVB 305; you may take BIOL 465 or WILD 421; you may take ENVB 210 or GEOG 305; you may take BREE 217 or GEOG 322.
AEBI 421 - Trop. Horticultural Ecology (M) (in Barbados)
AGRI 550 - Sustained Tropical Agriculture (M) (offered alternate years; in Panama)
ATOC 341 - Caribbean Climate and Weather (in Barbados)
BIOL 308 - Ecological Dynamics
BIOL 343 - Biodiversity in the Caribbean (in Barbados)
BIOL 451 - Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa (in Africa)
BIOL 465 - Conservation Biology
BIOL 553 - Neotropical Environments (in Panama)
BREE 217 - Hydrology and Water Resources (M)
ENVB 210 - The Biophysical Environment (M)
ENVB 305 - Population & Community Ecology (M)
GEOG 305 - Soils and Environment
GEOG 322 - Environmental Hydrology
NRSC 451 - Res in Ecol&Develop in Africa (M) (in Africa)
NUTR 501 - Nutrition: the Majority World (M)
NUTR 505 - Public Health Nutrition (M)
PARA 410 - Environment and Infection (M)
WILD 421 - Wildlife Conservation (M)
Social Sciences
6 credits from:
AEBI 423 - Sustainable Land Use (M) (in Barbados)
AEBI 425 - Tropical Energy and Food (M) (in Barbados)
AGEC 333 - Resource Economics (M)
ANTH 322 - Social Change in Modern Africa
ANTH 451 - Res in Society & Dev in Africa (in Africa)
ANTH 512 - Political Ecology
ECON 326 - Ecological Economics
ECON 347 - Economics of Climate Change
ECON 405 - Natural Resource Economics
ECON 511 - Energy, Economy & Environment (not offered 2024-2025)
ENVR 421 - Mtl:Envr Hist & Sustainability (offered alternate years, May term)
ENVR 422 - Mtl Urban Sustainability Anal (offered alternate years, May term)
GEOG 201 - Intro Geo-Information Science
GEOG 311 - Economic Geography
GEOG 331 - Urban Social Geography
GEOG 340 - Sustain. in the Caribbean
GEOG 404 - Environmental Management 2 (in Africa)
GEOG 496 - Geographical Excursion (in Barbados, not offered 2024-2025)
GEOG 498 - Humans in Tropical Envirnmnts (offered alternate years, in Panama)
GEOG 510 - Humid Tropical Environments (not offered 2024-2025)
GEOG 514 - Clim Change Vulnblty & Adapt
GEOG 530 - Global Land & Water Resources (not offered 2024-2025)
HIST 292 - History and the Environment
HIST 510 - Enviro. Hist. of L. Am (Field) (offered alternate years, in Panama)
INTD 360 - Envrnmntl Challenges in Dev
POLI 345 - International Organizations
POLI 350 - Global Environmental Politics
POLI 445 - IPE: Monetary Relations
SOCI 254 - Development&Underdevelopment
SOCI 331 - Population and Environment (not offered 2024-2025)
WCOM 314 - Communicating Science