Environmental Literacy Certificate Program
Faculty of Environment
間眅埶AV Calendar 2013 Summer
The program addresses the need for undergraduate students from a broad range of disciplines to have a basic understanding of the complexity and interdisciplinarity of environmental issues. It seeks to introduce students to physical, ecological, and social perspectives on the environment, with emphasis on the functioning of physical and ecological systems and how human activities have affected and are affected by such systems over time. Typically, the program will also provide students with knowledge of environmental issues as they pertain to their own field of study.
The program will require students to complete a total of 21 units, comprised of 12 lower division units and a minimum of nine lower and/or upper division units depending upon electives taken. These requirements include three introductory environmental courses (one physical, one ecological and one social science); one course introducing students to the complexity and interdisciplinarity of the environment issues; and a minimum of 9 units of electives chosen from one of the three elective groups.
Earned units may be applied the student's major or minor programs, and to a bachelor's degree. However, units earned in the certificate cannot be applied to another 間眅埶AV certificate or diploma.
Students in the following environmental specialty programs will be ineligible to receive the certificate:
- environmental science major (bachelor of science)
- geography - environmental specialty major (bachelor of arts)
- geography - environmental specialty honours (bachelor of arts)
Program Requirements
Students complete at least 21 units, of which 12 units are required core courses and the remaining nine units are selected from the one of the electives groups.
Students are responsible for meeting the prerequisite requirements for courses used toward the certificate.
Core Courses
Students complete a minimum of 21 units, including all of
- ENV 222 Environmental Controversy: An interdisciplinary study of environmental issues (3)
- GEOG 111 Earth Systems (3)
and one of
- BISC 204 Introduction to Ecology (3)
- GEOG 215 Biogeography (3)
and one of
- GEOG 102 World Problems in Geographic Perspective (3)
- REM 100 Global Change (3)
Elective Groups
Students complete a minimum of nine units from one of the groups of electives.
Social and Historical (Group A)
- ARCH 329 Special Topics in Environmental Archaeology (3)
- ARCH 340 Zooarchaeology (5)
- ARCH 365 Ecological Archaeology (3)
- ARCH 386 Archaeological Resource Management (3)
- ARCH 390 Archaeobotany (5)
- ENV 320W Ethics and the Environment (3)
- FNST 212 Indigenous Perceptions of Landscape (3)
- FNST 332 Ethnobotany of British Columbia First Nations (3)
- FNST 403 Indigenous Knowledge in the Modern World (3)
- FNST 433 Indigenous Environmental Activism (4)
- GEOG 322 World Resources (4)
- GEOG 362 Geography of Urban Built Environments (4)
- GEOG 377 Environmental History (4)
- GEOG 385 Agriculture and the Environment (4)
- GEOG 389W Nature and Society (4)
- HIST 377 Environmental History (4)
- HSCI 216 Ecological Determinants of Human Growth, Development and Health (3)
- HSCI 304 Perspectives on Environmental Health (3)
- HSCI 309 Health and the Built Environment (3)
- HUM 325 The Humanities and the Natural World (4)
- PHIL 328 Environmental Ethics (3)
- SA 326 Ecology and Social Thought (S) (4)
- SA 371 The Environment and Society (SA) (4)
Natural Science (Group B)
- BISC 304 Animal Ecology (3)
- BISC 309 Conservation Biology (3)
- BISC 313 Environmental Toxicology (3)
- CHEM 191 Living in a Materials World: From the Stone Age to Nanoscience (3)
- CHEM 192 Chemistry in Your Home, Work, and Environment (3)
- CHEM 317 Analytical Environmental Chemistry (2)
- CHEM 371 Chemistry of the Aqueous Environment (3)
- CHEM 372 Chemistry of the Atmospheric Environment (3)
- EASC 104 Geohazards - Earth in Turmoil (3)
- EASC 107 Economic Geological Resources (3)
- EASC 303W Environmental Geoscience (3)
- EASC 304 Hydrogeology (3)
- EASC 314 Principles of Glaciology (3)
- EVSC 100 Introduction to Environmental Science (3)
- GEOG 213 Introduction to Geomorphology (3)
- GEOG 214 Weather and Climate (3)
- GEOG 311 Hydrology (4)
- GEOG 312 Geography of Natural Hazards (4)
- GEOG 313 River Geomorphology (4)
- GEOG 314 The Climate System (4)
- GEOG 315 World Ecosystems (4)
- GEOG 316 Global Biogeochemical and Water Cycles (4)
- GEOG 318 Soils in Our Environment (4)
- PHYS 346 Energy and the Environment (3)
Environmental Management (Group C)
- BUS 453 Sustainable Innovation (3)
- BUS 489 Management Practices for Sustainability (3)
- CMNS 349 Environment, Media and Communication (4)
- DEVS 201 Introduction to Development and Sustainability (3)
- DEVS 401 Issues, Concepts and Cases in Development and Sustainability (4)
- ECON 260 Environmental Economics (3)
- ECON 362 Economics of Natural Resources (4)
- ECON 460 Seminar in Environmental Economics (3)
- ENV 319 Environmental Law (3)
- ENV 321 Ecological Economics (3)
- GEOG 322 World Resources (4)
- GEOG 385 Agriculture and the Environment (4)
- POL 452W Energy Policy (4)
- REM 201 Introduction to Sustainable Community Development (3)
- REM 301 Sustainable Community Development Theory and Practice (4)
- REM 321 Ecological Economics (3)
- REM 356 Institutional Arrangements for Sustainable Environmental Management (3)
- REM 445 Environmental Risk Assessment (3)
- REM 471 Forest Ecosystem Management (3)
- SCD 201 Introduction to Sustainable Community Development (3)
- SCD 301 Sustainable Community Development Theory and Practice (4)
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