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Economics and the Earth’s Environment Domain
This domain is open only to students in the B.A. Faculty Program in Environment.
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Faculty Program Environment - Economics and the Earth's Environment (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.
This Domain educates students in the fundamentals of economics and Earth sciences. The fundamentals of economics are provided, as is their application to the effects of economic choices on Earth's environment. Examples of these applications include the economic effects of public policy towards resource industries and methods of waste disposal, and the potential effects of global warming on the global economy. Students also learn of minerals, rocks, soils, and waters that define much of Earth's environment and how these materials interact with each other and with the atmosphere. Courses in specific subdisciplines of Earth sciences combined with courses presenting a global vision of how the Earth and its environment operate provide the student with the necessary knowledge of geologic processes. Examples of this knowledge include the effects of mineral and energy extraction on the environment and how industrial waste interacts with solids and liquids in the environment. The Earth science and economics studies merge in the final year when the students apply what they have learned in the Domain to current environmental issues.
Program Prerequisites or Corequisites
All B.A. Environment students must take these courses, or their equivalents. These courses should be taken in the Freshman year if possible. Quebec students can take them in U1.
Other Suggested First Year (U1) Courses
For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "MSE Student Handbook 2010-11" available on the MSE website (/mse), or contact Ms. Kathy Roulet, the Program Advisor (kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca).
Program Requirements
NOTE: Students are required to take a maximum of 34 credits at the 200-level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400-level or higher in this program. This includes Core and Required courses, but does not include the Domain prerequisites or co-requisites listed above.
Location Note: When planning your schedule and registering for courses, you should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ's downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Core: Required Courses (18 credits)
Location Note: Core Required Courses for this program are taught at both ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Macdonald campus.
| ENVR 200 | (3) | The Global Environment |
| ENVR 201 | (3) | Society and Environment |
| ENVR 202 | (3) | The Evolving Earth |
| ENVR 203 | (3) | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment |
| ENVR 301 | (3) | Environmental Research Design |
| ENVR 400 | (3) | Environmental Thought |
Domain: Required Courses (15 credits)
| ECON 230D1 | (3) | Microeconomic Theory |
| ECON 230D2 | (3) | Microeconomic Theory |
| ECON 405 | (3) | Natural Resource Economics |
| EPSC 210 | (3) | Introductory Mineralogy |
| EPSC 212 | (3) | Introductory Petrology |
Statistics
One of the following statistics courses or equivalent:
Note: Credit given for statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Arts.
| AEMA 310 | (3) | Statistical Methods 1 |
| GEOG 202 | (3) | Statistics and Spatial Analysis |
| MATH 203 | (3) | Principles of Statistics 1 |
Advanced Courses
9 credits from:
*Note: If WILD 415 is taken, 1 additional credit of complementary courses must be taken.
| AGRI 435 | (3) | Soil and Water Quality Management |
| AGRI 452 | (3) | Water Resources in Barbados |
| AGRI 550 | (3) | Sustained Tropical Agriculture |
| ANTH 339 | (3) | Ecological Anthropology |
| BIOL 305 | (3) | Animal Diversity |
| BIOL 308 | (3) | Ecological Dynamics |
| CHEE 430 | (3) | Technology Impact Assessment |
| ECON 305 | (3) | Industrial Organization |
| ECON 313 | (3) | Economic Development 1 |
| ECON 314 | (3) | Economic Development 2 |
| ECON 408 | (3) | Public Sector Economics 1 |
| ECON 409 | (3) | Public Sector Economics 2 |
| ECON 412 | (3) | Topics in Economic Development 1 |
| ENVB 305 | (3) | Population & Community Ecology |
| EPSC 455 | (3) | Sedimentary Geology |
| EPSC 549 | (3) | Hydrogeology |
| GEOG 302 | (3) | Environmental Management 1 |
| GEOG 322 | (3) | Environmental Hydrology |
| GEOG 380 | (3) | Adaptive Environmental Management |
| GEOG 404 | (3) | Environmental Management 2 |
| GEOG 498 | (3) | Humans in Tropical Environments |
| NRSC 437 | (3) | Assessing Environmental Impact |
| SOIL 510 | (3) | Environmental Soil Chemistry |
| URBP 520 | (3) | Globalization: Planning and Change |
| WILD 415* | (2) | Conservation Law |
Faculty:
¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
Faculty:
¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)