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2024 January Semester
Dec 08, 2023 |
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| ENVS 101 - Introduction to Environmental Citizenship |
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This course provides an introduction to the concept of "environmental citizen", and to the foundational elements of environmental studies, including social, ecological, humanistic and indigenous approaches to understanding human interactions with the natural environment. Development of skills in written communications is emphasized.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam, World Wide Web |
| ENVS 210 - Environmental Perspectives |
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This course explores how different worldviews – comprised of beliefs, assumptions, values, attitudes, ideas – influence human relationships with the natural environment. This exploration includes an examination of the cultural, scientific, religious, philosophical, spiritual, and economic foundations that influence how individuals or societies perceive, interact with, and transform natural environments.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
| ENVS 230 - Introduction to Environmental Policy |
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This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the environmental policy process in Canada. Through the use of lectures, case studies, and individual research, students have the opportunity to learn about the key actors, institutions, and issues involved with the design and implementation of environmental policy, as well as the politics and power dynamics that characterize the ‘real world’ of policy.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
| ENVS 309 - Gender, Environment, and Sustainability |
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This course is an introduction to theories, concepts and approaches for understanding relationships between gender and the environment. It considers the evolution and utility of approaches such as ecofeminism. It also examines links between gender and the following: science; environmental domains and professions; environmental management; conservation and recreation; and environmental impacts.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| ENVS 326 - Public Engagement for Sustainability |
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This course examines public engagement mechanisms and the attributes of successful engagement with respect to environmental and resource management issues. It also addresses the socio-political and legal requirements for engagement with the public, including Indigenous peoples. Exercises and critiques are used to provide students with practical experience in public engagement around environmental issues.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam |
| ENVS 339 - Low-Carbon Transitions: Theory and Practice |
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This course offers students the opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of carbon and energy management, and the concept of ‘transition’ related
to low-carbon energy systems and sustainability. It provides an overview of sustainability practices such as carbon accounting, policy design and implementation, community governance, financing, and environmental leadership. This course provides a combination of theoretical and experiential learning opportunities to provide students with a chance to develop a professional skillset.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
| ENVS 414 - Environmental and Professional Ethics |
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Analysis of environmental and natural resource issues from an ethical perspective; viewpoints and value systems that determine management decisions; professional ethics in natural resource management.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam, Audio/Video |
| ENVS 431 - Global Environmental Policy: Energy and Climate |
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This course covers practical and theoretical understandings of international environmental policy, addressing sustainability challenges and solutions that are global in scope. The course uses interconnected themes of climate and energy to explore how environmental policies are designed and implemented, how domestic energy markets intersect with issues of international governance, and to review climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies aimed at transition to a low-carbon future. This course uses multiple learning formats, including policy simulations and case studies of substantive and procedural policies
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| ENVS 440 - Internship |
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This course may be repeated for credit (maximum six credit hours). This course is graded on a PASS/FAIL basis.
Credits: 2.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Internship |
| ENVS 480 - Environmental and Sustainability Studies Senior Seminar |
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This seminar course serves as the ‘capstone’ course for the Environmental and Sustainability Studies degrees and provides multiple opportunities to synthesize and deepen the knowledge gained over the course of the degree. The course assists the student in translating knowledge into professional practice, with attention paid to governance, advocacy, policy-making, leadership, and activism. Topics, formats and activities are tailored to cohort and individual interests and goals, as appropriate.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Final Exam |
| ENVS 498 - Special Topics |
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Selected environmental topics. May be repeated for credit (maximum six credit hours).
Credits: 1.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed, Final Exam |
| ENVS 499 - Independent Study |
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May be repeated for credit (maximum 6 credit hours).
Credits: 1.000 TO 6.000 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Self-Directed |
| ENVS 602 - Environmental and Natural Resources Issues and Ethics |
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Analysis of environmental and natural resource issues from an ethical perspective; viewpoints and value systems that determine management decisions.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Self-Directed |
| ENVS 631 - Global Environmental Policy: Energy and Climate |
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This course covers practical and theoretical understandings of international environmental policy, addressing sustainability challenges and solutions that are global in scope. The course uses interconnected themes of climate and energy to explore how environmental policies are designed and implemented, how domestic energy markets intersect with issues of international governance, and to review climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies aimed at transition to a low-carbon future. This course uses multiple learning formats, including policy simulations and case studies of substantive and procedural policies. Students have the opportunity to work on projects relevant to their area of research.
Credits: 3.000 Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture |
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