Environmental Studies 

Minor in Environmental Studies 

Mailing Address:  
Minor in Environmental Studies  
c/o Faculty of Arts  
University of New Brunswick  
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB 
Canada, E3B 5A3 

Phone: (506) 453-4655 

Email: arts@unb.ca 

Website: www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/undergrad/environmental.html 

Coordinator: Dr. Donald Wright 

Consulting Committee: 

  • Dr. John C. Ball (ENGL), BA, MA, PhD (Tor) 
  • Dr. Heather Millar (POLS), BA, MPP (Simon Fraser); PhD (Tor) 
  • Dr. Noah Pleshet (ANTH), BA, BCom (USYD); MA, MPhil, PhD (NYU) 
  • Dr. Donald Wright (POLS), BA (Mount Allison), MA (McGill), PhD (Ottawa) 

General Information 

The Minor in Environmental Studies offers students the opportunity to take an interdisciplinary approach to exploring and analysing environmental issues.  

Eligibility 

Admission to the Minor in Environmental Studies is open to students from any Faculty who have completed 30 credit hours (ch) towards a degree. Students are encouraged to begin the Minor in their second year of study and should contact the Environmental Studies Minor Coordinator for program approval and advising.  

Program of Study 
Students seeking this Minor are required to take at least 24 ch spread across at least three different departments in the Faculty of Arts. These ch are typically chosen from the list below. 12 of these 24 ch must be in upper-year courses (3000-4000 level). With the permission of the Environmental Studies Minor Advisor, students may take up to 6 of these 24 ch from ARTS 1023, 3000, 3002, and 4000. 

Anthropology  
ANTH 1003 Environment and Climate Change   
ANTH 2011 Environment and Infrastructure  
ANTH/SOCI 2801 Food and Culture  
ANTH 3111 Resource Extraction, Conflict, and Resistance  
ANTH 4025 Hunters and Gatherers  
ANTH 4144 Culture and Environment  
Culture and Media Studies 
CCS 3405 Media and Environment  
Economics  
ECON 3755 Environmental Economics (Requires 3ch of first-year microeconomics)  
ECON 3766 Economics of Climate Change (Requires 3ch of first-year microeconomics) 
ECON 3801 Transportation Economics   
ECON 3865 Energy Economics 
English 
ENGL 3983 Literature and the Environment  
History 
HIST 3355 Nature, Culture and the Canadian Environment  
HIST 5342 Environmental History of North America  
HIST 5345 Natural Resources, Industrialization, and the Environment in Atlantic Canada  
Philosophy 
PHIL 3208 Ecological Ethics  
Political Science 
POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change  
POLS 3217 Canadian Environmental Policy   
POLS 4724 Topics in Environmental History and Politics  
POLS 4725 Climate and Energy Policy  
POLS 4734 Political Economy of Energy and the Environment  
Sociology 
SOCI 3553 Sociology and the Environment  
SOCI 3563 Global Perspectives in Environmental Health  
SOCI/ANTH 3801 Food Studies