Minor in Environmental Studies

The minor in environmental studies program provides students with an excellent interdisciplinary understanding of climate and environment topics. It offers a useful complement to many different degree programs.

The minor is open to students from all faculties and programs. To complete the minor, you will take:

• 24 credit hours from the approved list of courses (see below),
• 12 credits hours of the 24 must be upper level (3000 level or higher),
• courses from at least three different departments.

With approval from the Environmental Studies Advisor, students may take up to 6 credit hours from Arts Internship Program courses (ARTS 3000, 3001, 3002 and ARTS 4000).

Environmental studies minor courses

Arts

• ARTS 1023: Arts First: Climate and Environment

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 3364: Archaeology of Northeastern North America
• ANTH 4144: Culture and Environment
• ANTH 4025: Hunters and Gatherers

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 3865: Energy Economics
• ECON 3801: Transportation 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 4725: Climate and Energy Policy
• POLS 4724: Topics in Environmental History and Politics
• 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

Advising

For more information about the minor, please meet with the Environmental Studies Advisor.