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Economics and the Earth’s Environment Domain

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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.

Advisor Mentor
  • Ms. Kathy Roulet
  • Email: kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca
  • Telephone: 514-398-4306
  • Professor Jeanne Paquette
  • Email: jeanne.paquette [at] mcgill.ca
  • Telephone: 514-398-4402

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.

Calculus

3 credits of calculus, one of the following, or equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective OOUN):

MATH 139 (4) Calculus 1 with Precalculus
MATH 140 (3) Calculus 1

Basic Science

3 credits of basic science, one of the following, or their equivalents (e.g., CEGEP objectives Biology OOUK, Chemistry OOUL, Physics OOUR):

BIOL 111 (3) Principles: Organismal Biology
CHEM 110 (4) General Chemistry 1
PHYS 101 (4) Introductory Physics - Mechanics

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 91ÉçÇø'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 91ÉçÇø'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

Core: Complementary Course – Senior Research Project (3 credits)

Only 3 credits will be applied to the program: extra credits will count as electives.

AGRI 519 (6) Sustainable Development Plans
ENVR 401 (3) Environmental Research
ENVR 451 (6) Research in Panama

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

Domain: Complementary Courses (18 credits)

18 credits are selected from various domains as follows:

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

Economics

6 credits from:

AGEC 333 (3) Resource Economics
ECON 326 (3) Ecological Economics
ECON 347 (3) Economics of Climate Change
ECON 416 (3) Topics in Economic Development 2
ECON 525 (3) Project Analysis

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
91ÉçÇø School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
91ÉçÇø School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
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