Minor in Environment and Urban Sustainability
The Minor in Environment and Urban Sustainability (EUS) is offered to students to provide an understanding of sustainability issues as they relate to both the human and natural environments.
The Minor gives students the ability to grasp complex issues in a world of finite resources and to learn how to think about solutions and possibilities of creating sustainable actions in our environments. Analytical skills, critical thinking, confident decision making, and solution oriented results are the mainstay of the minor.
The EUS Minor enables students from varied disciplines to explore important challenges facing humanity, whether it is in the areas of environmental ethics, green businesses, greener cities, environmental decision making, or similar. The Minor will help students prepare for professional careers in their own area of study and for application to graduate programs.
Administered by: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Exclusions: This Minor is not available to students in the following programs:
To receive this Minor, students must complete six (6) courses from the following curriculum:
Required courses (2):
Minimum two (2) of the following:
- EUS 301 Reading Neighbourhood Environments
- EUS 450 Responses to Climate Change
- EUS 550 Sustainable Cities: Politics and Equity
- EUS 650 Waste and Waste Management
- EUS 750 Energy and Transportation Transitions
- EUS 760 Cities at Risk
- EUS 850 Sustainability in Organizations
- EUS 860 Measuring Sustainability
- EUS 870 Ecological Restoration
Maximum two (2) of the following:
- ASC 200 Sustainable Practices
- ASC 852 Landscape Ecological Design
- ASC 855 Sustainable Ratings Systems
- BLG 340 Environmental Biology
- BLG 401 Ecotoxicology
- CHY 423 Environmental Science
- ECN 502 Economics of Energy and Natural Resources
- ECN 510 Environmental Economics
- ECN 511 Economy and Environment
- ENH 424 Water Quality
- ENH 524 Pollution Control
- ENH 825 Risk Assessment
- GEO 131 Energy, Earth and Ecosystems
- GEO 411 Resource and Environmental Planning
- GEO 514 Resource Management in Northern Canada
- GEO 671 Developmental and Environmental Law
- HIS 828 Science, Corporations and the Environment
- HST 788 HST 788 Water Use in History
- HTT 510 Sustainable Tourism Development
- IDE 309 Sustainable Design
- LAW 535 Environmental Law and Business
- OHS 322 Introductory Toxicology
- OHS 422 Advanced Toxicology
- PLE 715 Environmental Assessment
- PLE 835 Ecological Design
- POG 415 Environmental Politics and Policy
- POL 377 Urban Sustainability Policy
- REM 420 Sustainability in Real Estate
- SOC 708 Environmental Sociology
Please see Senate Policy 2, Section 7.4 for further information about Minors.