Physical and Environmental Sciences: Environmental Science PhD Courses

Core Course

Course Code Course Title
EES2200H
Advanced Seminar in Environmental Science

The following are courses offered within the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences. With the approval of the Graduate Chair, relevant courses from other graduate departments can be applied to the required full-course equivalents. Not all courses are offered every year.

Elective Courses

Course Code Course Title
EES1102H
Analytical Chemistry for Geoscientists
EES1103H Field Measurements and Sampling: The Essentials
EES1104H
Microorganisms and the Environment
EES1105H
Soil Contamination Chemistry
EES1106H
Geological Evolution and Environmental History of North America
EES1109H
Advanced Techniques in Geographic Information Systems
EES1111H
Freshwater Ecology and Biomonitoring
EES1112H Contaminant Cycling in Transboundary Environments
EES1113H Groundwater Hydrochemistry and Contaminant Transport
EES1117H
Climate Change Impact Assessment
EES1118H
Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling
EES1119H
Quantitative Environmental Analysis
EES1120H
Fluid Dynamics of Contaminant Transport
EES1121H
Modeling the Fate of Organic Chemicals in the Environment
EES1122H
Global Sustainability
EES1126H
Hydrology and Watershed Management
EES1127H
Applied Biogeochemistry and Geomicrobiology
EES1128H
Biophysical Interactions in Managed Environments
EES1131H
Applied Climatology (exclusion: EESD31H3)
EES1132H
Climate Data Analysis (exclusion: EESD21H3)
EES1133H
Climate Change Science and Modelling
EES1134H
Climate Change Policy
EES1135H
Environmental Change and Human Health
EES1136H
Climate Change Adaptation
EES1137H
Quantitative Applications for Data Analysis
EES1139H Perspectives in Environmental Health: Mechanisms of Toxicity
(Prerequisites: at least one undergraduate course in each of the following areas: Introduction to Human Biology or equivalent; Biological Determinants of Health or equivalent; Introduction to Epidemiology or equivalent; and Environmental Health or Toxicology or equivalent.)
EES2201H
Advanced Readings in Environmental Science
EES3000H
Applied Conservation Biology
EES3001H
Professional Scientific Literacy
EES3002H
Conservation Policy
EES3003H
Topics in Applied Biodiversity
EES3111H Conservation Genetics
EES3113H
Topics in Population and Community Ecology
EES3114H Topics in Urban and Rural Ecology