Environmental Studies: Courses

The School of the Environment offers individual credit courses that are open to graduate students from all parts of the University, subject to enrolment limits. Except for the core course, ENV1001H, not all courses are offered every year. Graduate students enrolled in the CSES are also allowed to take electives listed for the School’s Collaborative Specialization in Environment and Health (CSEH) to fulfil the specialization requirements. For a current graduate course listing, please refer to the School of the Environment's website.

Core Course

Course Code Course Title
ENV1001H
Environmental Decision Making

Elective Courses

Course Code Course Title
ENV1002H
Environmental Policy
ENV1005H Ecological Statistics
ENV1007H The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation of Climate Change
ENV1008H
Worldviews and Ecology
ENV1103H
Living Labs for Applied Sustainability
ENV1444H
Capitalist Nature
ENV1701H
Environmental Law
ENV1703H Water Resource Management and Policy
ENV1704H
Environmental Risk Analysis and Management
ENV1707H
Climate Finance
ENV2000H
Topics in Environment
ENV2000Y Topics in Environment
ENV2002H
Special Topics in Environment
ENV4444H
Internship
ENV4444Y Internship
ENV5555Y
Research Paper

Elective Joint Courses with the School of the Environment

Course Code Course Title
JGE1425H
Livelihoods, Poverty, and Environment in the Developing Countries
JSE1708H
Sustainability and the Western Mind

Other Elective Courses

Adult Education and Community Development (Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education)

Course Code Course Title
LHA1193H
Adult Education for Sustainability

Anthropology

Course Code Course Title
ANT4051H Archaeology and Climate Change
ANT6018H
Approaches to Nature and Culture
ANT6066H More-than-Human Ethnography

Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry

Course Code Course Title
CHE1435H
Fundamentals of Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
JNC2503H
Environmental Pathways

Chemistry

Course Code Course Title
CHM1401H
Transport and Fate of Chemical Species in the Environment
CHM1404H
Molecular Analysis of Natural Systems
CHM1410H
Analytical Environmental Chemistry
CHM1415H
Atmospheric Chemistry
CHM1420H
Environmental Chemistry of Soil
CHM1425H
Modelling the Fate of Organic Chemicals in the Environment

Civil Engineering

Course Code Course Title
APS1410H
Waterpower Essentials

Computer Science

Course Code Course Title
CSC2720H
Systems Thinking for Global Problems

Earth Sciences

Course Code Course Title
ESS2303H Earth Systems Evolution
ESS2304H Geochemistry

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Course Code Course Title
EEB1250H (0.25 FCE) Spatial Statistics
EEB1420H Special Topics in Ecology
EEB1450H Special Topics in Ecology and Evolution A

English

Course Code Course Title
ENG5580H American Pastoral

Forestry

Course Code Course Title
FOR1270H
Forest Biomaterial Sciences: Fundamentals, Applications, and the Next Frontier
FOR1288H
Design and Manufacturing of Biomaterials
FOR1294H
Bioenergy and Biorefinery Technology
FOR1416H
Forest Fire Danger Rating
FOR1555H
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
FOR1575H
Urban Forest Conservation
FOR1610H
Sustainable Forest Management and Certification (exclusion: JFG1610H)

Geography and Planning

Course Code Course Title
GGR1216H
Advanced Biogeochemical Processes
GGR1407H
Efficient Use of Energy
GGR1408H
Carbon-Free Energy
GGR1411H Nature and Justice in the Anthropocene
JGE1425H
Livelihoods, Poverty, and Environment in the Developing Countries
JPG1518H
Sustainability and Urban Communities
JPG1814H Cities and Immigrants
JPG1818H The Geography and Planning of Climate Action and Activism
PLA1601H
Environmental Planning in a Changing Climate

Global Affairs

Course Code Course Title
JSE1708H
Sustainability and the Western Mind

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Course Code Course Title
HPS4106H
Environment and STS

Information

Course Code Course Title
INF2235H
Outer Space and the City

Landscape Architecture

Course Code Course Title
LAN1037H
Plants and Design
LAN1041H Field Studies 1
LAN2045H Landscape Ecology
LAN2047H Landscape Hydrology
LAN3045H
Advanced Site Technologies

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Course Code Course Title
MIE1120H
Current Energy Infrastructure and Resources

Music

Course Code Course Title
MUS1135H
Music, Sound, and the Environment
MUS1169H Listening to Cities: Music, Sound, and Noise in Urban Environment
MUS1272H
19C Music and Discourses of Nature

Physics

Course Code Course Title
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

Political Science

Course Code Course Title
POL2213H
Global Environmental Politics

Religion

Course Code Course Title
RLG2005H
Religion and Posthumanism

Social Justice Education

Course Code Course Title
SJE1909H
Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice 1
SJE1919H
Advanced Topics in Environmental Justice Education

Sustainability Management

Course Code Course Title
SSM2020H
Sustainability Ethics

Women and Gender Studies

Course Code Course Title
WGS1016H
Migration, Mobility, Displacement in Contemporary Africa