Environmental Studies 

Minor in Environmental Studies 

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. Students may begin the Minor at any time, but normally by the time they have completed 30 ch for their program. Once students have begun the Minor, they must contact the Environmental Studies Minor Coordinator for 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 Coordinator, students may take up to 6 of these 24 ch from ARTS/ENVS/POLS 1023, ARTS 3000, ARTS 3001, ARTS 3002, and ARTS 4000. 

Anthropology  
ANTH/ENVS 1003 Environment and Climate Change    
ANTH/ENVS 2011 Environment and Infrastructure   
ANTH/ENVS/SOCI 2801 Food and Culture   
ANTH/ENVS 3015 Animal Studies 
ANTH/ENVS 3111 Resource Extraction, Conflict, and Resistance   
ANTH/ENVS 4025 Hunters and Gatherers   
ANTH/ENVS 4114 Culture and Environment   

Culture and Media Studies 
CCS 3405/ENVS/MAAC  Media and Environment  

Economics  
ECON/ENVS 3755 Environmental Economics (Requires 3 ch of first-year microeconomics)   
ECON/ENVS 3766 Economics of Climate Change (Requires 3 ch of first-year microeconomics)  
ECON/ENVS 3865 Energy Economics   

English 
ENGL/ENVS 3983 Literature and the Environment  

History 
HIST/ENVS 3355 Nature, Culture, and the Canadian Environment   
HIST/ENVS 5342 Environmental History of North America   
HIST/ENVS 5345 Natural Resources, Industrialization, and the Environment in Atlantic Canada 

Philosophy 
PHIL/ENVS 3208 Ecological Ethics  

Political Science 
POLS/ENVS 1803 Politics of Climate Change   
POLS/ENVS 3217 Canadian Environmental Policy    
POLS/ENVS 4724 Topics in Environmental History and Politics   
POLS/ENVS 4725 Climate and Energy Policy   
POLS/ENVS 4734 Political Economy of Energy and the Environment