Change is in your hands
Complex issues like water and energy security, climate change and environmental degradation touch virtually every person, in every profession, in every part of the world. Studying Environment, Sustainability and Society (ESS) at Dalhousie will allow you to explore the links between complex environmental issues and poverty, globalization, consumption and urbanization. You’ll gain skills that will make you a leader and change-maker in your chosen career path.
You’ll combine your major in ESS with a second major depending on your undergraduate degree of choice.
Dalhousie’s ESS program has an interdisciplinary approach, allowing you to explore how ESS topics relate to other industries you may be interested in. The core ESS courses will help you analyze and understand a wide range of concepts relating to energy, water, climate change, population and more.
First-year students begin by taking general introduction courses to the concepts of Environment, Sustainability and Society. These courses will give you the background for more in-depth studies in topics such as environmental decision-making and global environmental governance.
This new type of education will change the way you think when you’re in the workplace. You'll examine conflicting positions on humanity’s place in the natural world. And you’ll identify, research, and address real-world problems-making you better prepared to meet the challenges of virtually any job in our complex society.
Sample courses:
- Humanity in the Natural World: An Introduction to Problem-based Learning
- Environmental Decision-making
- Environment, Sustainability and Governance: A Global Perspective
Visit the Academic Calendar to view degree options and course details.