Environment: Environment and Sustainability MES Courses

Core Courses

2.5 full-course equivalents (FCEs):

Course Code Course Title
ENV1103H
Living Labs for Applied Sustainability
ENV1197H
Research in Environment and Sustainability, Part 1
ENV1198H
Research in Environment and Sustainability, Part 2 (prerequisite: ENV1197H)
ENV1199Y
Thesis (Credit/No Credit; prerequisites: ENV1197H and ENV1198H)

Elective Courses

1.5 FCEs chosen from one of the following concentrations:

Concentration 1: Adaptation and Resilience

Course Code Course Title
CHL5413H Public Health Sanitation
CHL5903H Environmental Health
CHL5910H Occupational and Environmental Hygiene I
CHL5911H Occupational and Environmental Hygiene II
CSC2720H Systems Thinking for Global Problems
EES1136H Climate Change Adaptation
ENV1001H Environmental Decision Making
ENV1111H Special Topics in Adaptation and Resilience
ENV1703H Water Resource Management and Policy
ENV1704H Environmental Risk Analysis and Management
ENV4002H The Environment and Health of Vulnerable Populations
FOR1416H Forest Fire Danger Rating
FOR1575H Urban Forest Conservation
JGE1425H Livelihoods, Poverty, and Environment in the Developing Countries
JNC2503H Environmental Pathways
JPG1404H Issues in Global Warming
JPG1428H Greening the City: Urban Environmental Planning and Management
PLA1601H Environmental Planning in a Changing Climate

Concentration 2: Global Change Science

Course Code Course Title
ANT4065H Specific Problems: New World
CHE1435H Fundamentals of Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
CHM1401H Transport and Fate of Chemical Species in the Environment
CHM1410H Analytical Environmental Chemistry
CHM1420H Environmental Chemistry of Soil
CHM1425H Modelling the Fate of Organic Chemicals in The Environment
ENV1001H Environmental Decision Making
ENV1005H Ecological Statistics
ENV1007H The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation of Climate Change
ENV1112H Special Topics in Global Change Science
ESS1461H Paleoenvironmental Studies
ESS2303H Earth Systems Evolution
FOR3000H Current Issues in Forest Conservation
PHY1498H Introduction to Atmospheric Physics
PHY2502H Climate System Dynamics
PHY2504H Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics
PHY2505H Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Remote Sounding
PHY2506H Data Assimilation and Retrieval Theory

Concentration 3: Social Sustainability

Course Code Course Title
ANT3034H Advanced Research Seminar IV
ANT6018H Approaches to Nature and Culture
ENV1001H Environmental Decision Making
ENV1008H
Worldviews and Ecology
ENV1063H The Edible Campus (exclusion: ENV463H)
ENV1113H Special Topics in Social Sustainability
ENV1444H
Capitalist Nature
ENV1701H
Environmental Law
ENV4001H
Graduate Seminar in Environment and Health
ENV4002H The Environment and Health of Vulnerable Populations
JGE1425H
Livelihoods, Poverty, and Environment in the Developing Countries
JPG1426H Natural Resources, Difference, and Conflict
JPG1518H Sustainability and Urban Communities
LHA1193H Adult Education for Sustainability
POL2213H Global Environmental Politics
SJE1909H Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice I

Concentration 4: The Sustainability Transition

Course Code Course Title
CIV1307H Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability of Engineering Activities
ENV1001H Environmental Decision Making
ENV1002H Environmental Policy
ENV1003H Global Climate Politics and Policy
ENV1114H Special Topics in the Sustainability Transition
ENV1444H Capitalist Nature
ENV1707H Climate Finance
FOR1270H Forest Biomaterial Sciences: Fundamentals, Applications, and the Next Frontier
FOR1288H Design and Manufacturing of Biomaterials
FOR1294H Bioenergy and Biorefinery Technology
FOR1610H Sustainable Forest Management and Certification (exclusion: JFG1610H)
GGR1407H Efficient Use of Energy (exclusion: GGR347H1)
GGR1408H Carbon-Free Energy (exclusions: GGR1406H, GGR348H1)
JPG1518H Sustainability and Urban Communities