Environmental Studies
Location: Department of Political Science
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Henry Hicks Administration Building, Room 301
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS
B3H 4R2
Telephone: (902) 494-6638
Email: fass@dal.ca

BA with Minor in Environmental Studies

See Minor in Environmental Studies section in this Calendar.

BA Approved Electives in Environmental Studies:

Additions to the following lists will be made, as relevant courses become available.

Faculty of Science:

  • BIOL 2060.03: Introductory Ecology
  • BIOL 2601.03: The Flora of Nova Scotia
  • BIOL 2605.03: Introduction to Marine Life in Nova Scotia
  • BIOL 3060.03: Environmental Ecology
  • BIOL 3061.03: Communities and Ecosystems
  • BIOL 3225.03: Plants in the human landscape
  • BIOL 3226.03: Economic Botany, Plants and Civilization
  • BIOL 3601.03: Nature Conservation
  • BIOL 3615.03: Methods in Ecology
  • BIOL 4065.03: Sustainability and Global Change
  • CHEM 2505.03: Environmental Chemistry
  • ECON 2336.03: Regional Development
  • ECON 3332.03: Resource Economics
  • ECON 3335.03: Environmental Economics
  • ERTH 2410.03: Environmental and Resource Geology I
  • ERTH 3500.03: Geoscience Information Management
  • GEOG 2800.03: Climate Change
  • OCEA 2000.06: The Blue Planet
  • OCEA 2800.03: Climate Change
  • PHYC 2451.03: Astronomy I: The Sky and Planets
  • PHYC 2800.03: Climate Change
  • ENVS 2001.03: Analytical Environmental Science and Social Responsibility
  • ENVS 3000.03: Environmental Science Internship
  • ENVS 3210.03: Environmental Law II: Natural Justice and Unnatural Acts
  • ENVS 3220.03: International Environmental Law for Scientists
  • ENVS 3226.03: Economic Botany, Plants and Civilization
  • ENVS 3300.03: Contaminated Site Management
  • ENVS 3400.03: Human Health and Sustainability
  • ENVS 3501.03: Environmental Problem Solving I
  • ENVS 3502.03: Environmental Problem Solving II: The Campus as a Living Laboratory

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS):

  • CTMP 3000.06: Science and Culture
  • CTMP 3150.03: Nature and History
  • CTMP 3210.03: Intersecting Bodies, Selves and Environments
  • CTMP 3411.03: Studies in Contemporary Science and Technology
  • EMSP 2310.03: Women and Gender in Early Modern Science
  • EMSP 2330.03: Nature Imagined
  • EMSP 3000.06: The Study of Nature in Early Modern Europe
  • ENGL 4005.03: Green Reading: Nature, Culture, Canada
  • ENGL 4400.03: Nature of America
  • HSTC 3000.03: The Scientific Revolution
  • HSTC 4000.06: Science and Nature in the Modern Period
  • HSTC 4300.03: Nature and Romanticism
  • HIST 3073.03: History of Marine Sciences
  • HIST 3210/CANA 3020/GEOG 3210.03: Canadian Cultural Landscapes
  • HIST 3302.03: Technology and History in North America
  • HIST 3370.03: North American Landscapes
  • HIST 3750.03: History of Seafaring
  • HIST 4271.03: The Fisheries of Atlantic Canada - Society and Ecology in Historical Perspective
  • HIST 4350.03: People and Things - Material Culture
  • INTD 2001.03: Introduction to Development I
  • INTD 2002.03: Introduction to Development II
  • INTD 3002.03: Seminar in Development: Development Practice
  • INTD 3114.03: Environment and Development
  • INTD 3304.03: Sustainable Development in Cuba
  • INTD 4013.03: Environmental Conflict & Security
  • PHIL 2475.03: Justice in Global Perspective
  • PHIL 2485.03: Technology and the Environment
  • PHIL 3670.03: Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 4120.03: Theory of Rational Decision-Making
  • POLI 3385.03: Politics of the Environment
  • POLI 4228.03: Interest Groups
  • POLI 4380.03: Politics of Climate Change
  • SOSA 2100.06: Environment and Culture
  • SOSA 3185.03: Issues in the Study of Indigenous Peoples of North America
  • SOSA 3190.03: Social Movements
  • SOSA 3220.03: Coastal Communities
  • SPAN 2070.03: Area Studies on Mexico and Central America
Other Electives
  • PLAN 2001.03: Landscape Analysis
  • PLAN 3001.03: Landscape Ecology
  • PLAN 3002.03: Reading the City
  • PLAN 3005.03: Cities and the Environment in History
  • PLAN 3010.03: Urban Ecology
  • PLAN 3020.03: Landscape Design
  • PLAN 4106.03: Transportation Planning

In any given year, special and variable topics courses may be approved for credit towards the minor requirements when the content warrants. See the program director for information.