BUILD FOUNDATIONS
EVD5121 Foundations of Environmental Science (3 un.)
Provides students with a thematic understanding of the current state of environmental science. Major themes include: the set of environmental issues that are currently of major concern in Canada and abroad; the range of scientific approaches currently employed to understand and predict the effects of human activities on ecosystems; the nature of environmental science evidence; and how environmental sustainability is characterized from the perspective of environmental science.
EVD5122 Foundations of Environmental Economics (3 un.)
Key elements of economics including formal models and their underlying assumptions as they relate to the development of sustainability policy. Covers concepts such as public goods, market failure, non-market valuation, incentives, welfare economics, regulation, the equity-efficiency trade-off and market-based instruments. The course explains how fundamental economic concepts, particularly their advantages and limitations, are used to analyze issues at the interface of the economy and the environment. Examines renewable (e.g., fisheries, forests) and non-renewable (e.g., oil, gas, minerals) resource management and other topics (e.g., climate change, ozone depletion, cap and trade) in applied environmental economics. Explores the institutions and trade-offs that individuals and governments face in the context of sustainability policy.
EVD5124 Foundations of Environmental Law (3 un.)
Foundations of environmental law, including theory of sustainability, constitutional division of powers, approaches to regulation of environmental issues, including examples of legal frameworks for different environmental problems, and access to justice.
EVD5113 Foundations of Environmental Policy (3 un.)
Explores the central structures of public policy and the development of environmental policy at different levels of government, including engagement of actors in the policy-making process.
INTEGRATE & APPLY
EVD5123 Evidence Synthesis and Evaluation (3 un.)
Reviews different understandings of what constitutes research, both as it pertains to the production of evidence and to the evaluation of existing evidence relating to policy, to regulatory and statutory interventions and to identifying evidence gaps. Students learn research methodologies to design research so as to maximize its evidentiary value (given existing constraints); they will also learn to synthesize and assess the evidentiary value of existing research.
EVD5109 Applied Environmental Sustainability (3 un.)
Uses an environmental sustainability case study, such as climate change, to learn how to synthesize information about a problem from multiple disciplinary perspectives, to critically evaluate such information using rigorous methodological approaches, and to design and evaluate policy or regulatory solutions. (Prerequisites: EVD5106, EVD5113, EVD5121, EVD5122 (Set of Foundational Knowledge courses).
EVD5114 Professional Skills for Environmental Sustainability (1.5 un.)
Oral and written communications skills, including presenting to parliamentary committees, preparing memos to cabinet, writing editorials, doing media interviews, and producing interdisciplinary public policy reports. Project and process management skills, including multi-stakeholder processes.
EVD5111 Capstone Seminar in Environmental Sustainability (3 un.)
Involves partnering with organization(s) working on a sustainability issue. Students work in interdisciplinary teams to identify the scientific, economic, legal and social dimensions of a particular environmental problem, evaluate a set of candidate solutions, and recommend an approach.
EVD5100, Seminar in Environmental Sustainability (3 un.)
This seminar exposes students to scientific, economic, legal and political perspectives on climate change. It encourages students to understand the multiple facets of the problem, and analyze potential solutions in a real-world context.
CO-OP WORK TERM I (6 un.)
Experience in a workplace setting. Evaluated P (Pass) / F (Fail) by a professor in the program based on the written report and the evaluation of the internship supervisor. Prerequisite: permission of the graduate studies co-ordinator.
CO-OP WORK TERM II (6 un.)
Experience in a workplace setting. Evaluated P (Pass) / F (Fail) by a professor in the program based on the written report and the evaluation of the internship supervisor. Prerequisite: permission of the graduate studies co-ordinator.
