Environment (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

At the Bieler School of Environment, you will learn how to communicate and contribute effectively on a range of environmental issues. Benefit from an environment where ingenuity and openness to new ideas are encouraged – and learn to question established norms with confidence.

The Major in Environment brings together a broad spectrum of perspectives, ideas and expertise to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing our environment and world. The program is intensely interdisciplinary, and students work side-by-side with colleagues from all fields of inquiry.

This major must be completed along with a Domain. The related Domains are:

• Biodiversity and Conservation
• Environmetrics
• Land Surface Processes and Environmental Change
• Water Environments and Ecosystems (Biological or Physical)
• Ecological Determinants of Health (Population or Cellular)
• Food Production and Environment
• Renewable Resource Management

Accepted international credentials

Applicants are reviewed on their high school transcript with particular emphasis on yearly averages and results in prerequisite subjects (prerequisite subjects must have been completed during the last two years of high school).

Bologna-signatory countries

By studying the environment through an interdisciplinary lens, graduates of the Bieler School of Environment are prepared to tackle a breadth of pressing environmental issues from many angles. Possible career paths include: 

• Environmental Policy Advisor
• Environmental Consultant
• Environmental Scientist
• Environmental Assessment Officer
• Green Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Journalist / Science Communicator
• National / Provincial Parks Planner
• Climate Change Analyst
• International Development Planner / Project Officer