Environment—Honours/Major/Minor
The Major in Environment and Society will consist of 36 credit hours
distributed as follows:
A. Required Environment and Society Courses
ENVS 1013 Introduction to Environmental Problems
ENVS 2023 Introduction to Perspectives on the Environment
ENVS 3013 Environmental Policy
ENVS 3023 Environmental Praxis
ENVS 4003 Capstone Seminar in Environment and Society
B. Natural Science (Students are required to take 3 credit hours in an approved natural
science course).
Recommended courses are:
BIOL 2113 Ecology
PHYS 2543 Environmental Physics
Other courses may be substituted for either of these with the approval of the Programme
Director.
C. Electives (18 credit hours from the following)
ANTH 3533 Food
ANTH 3723 Human Ecology
ECON 2203 Community Economic Development
ECON 3323 Environmental Economics
ENGL 2773 Reporting the Environment: The Journalism of John McPhee
ENVS 4006 Work-Study Project
HIST 3403 Water in World History
HIST 3423 Agriculture in World History
HIST 3933 Canadian Land Struggles in Comparative Global Perspective since 1945
NATI 3223 Native Environmental Ethics and Ecology
NATI 3923 Aboriginal Rights: The Land Question
PHIL 3563 Philosophy of Science
PSYC 2443 Environmental Psychology
RELG 2133 Religion and Ecology
RELG 3523 Environmental Ethics
STS 2803 Controversies in the Earth and Environmental Science
STS 3003 Scientific Reasoning
SCWK 6823 Ecology and Social Justice
SOCI 2213 Society and Ecology
Electives Available from UNB
HIST 3925 Technology and Western Society
PHIL 3221-19 Selected Topics in Philosophy of the Environment
POLS 1603 Politics of Globalization
D. Double Major
Students completing the Major in Environment and Society are required to complete a second Major as well. This second Major may be in any field of their choice. ENVS electives taken from other departments may be counted both for the ENVS Major and for the Major in that Department.