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Note: This is the 2024–2025 eCalendar. Current program and course information is now found in the ÐÇ¿ÕÕæÈË Course Catalogue at .
The B.A. Faculty Program comprises two course components: core and concentration.
Core: In the core component, the four introductory courses and an intermediate-level course expose students to different interdisciplinary perspectives, approaches, and world views to help them understand the complexity and conflicts that underlie most environmental problems. In the two senior-level courses of the core component, students will apply the general and specialized knowledge acquired through the rest of their program, to the analysis of a selection of contemporary environmental problems. Students will be challenged by the core program to look beyond the confines of their individual views of environment.
To obtain a B.A. Faculty Program in Environment, students must:
An understanding of the interface between human health and environment depends not only on an appreciation of the biological and ecological determinants of health, but equally on an appreciation of the role of social sciences in the design, implementation, and monitoring of interventions. Demographic patterns and urbanization, economic forces, ethics, indigenous...
For more information, see Faculty Program Environment - Ecological Determinants of Health in Society (54 credits).
Understanding Earth's geologic processes provides us with the knowledge to mitigate many of our society's environmental impacts due to resource extraction and waste disposal. This knowledge is not always enough, as economics often plays a controlling role in how we use and abuse our environment. ...
For more information, see Faculty Program Environment - Economics and the Earth's Environment (54 credits).
The B.A.; Faculty Program in Environment; Environment and Development is an introduction to theories, concepts and approaches associated with the complexities between environment and development. The problems and solutions to the development/environmental crisis, which include: the natural world, theories behind economic development and growth, and of the cultural...
For more information, see Faculty Program Environment - Environment and Development (54 credits).