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Frank Dawson Adams Building,
3450 University Street,
Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 0E8.
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B.Sc. Honours Program in Earth System Science
This program integrates courses in the contributing disciplines with ones specific to the Earth System Science Program that are taught by teams of professors with different backgrounds and that emphasize the integration of approaches and the role of modeling.
The Earth System B.Sc. Honours Program structure (effective Fall 2013)
66 total credits, maintaining a CGPA greater than 3.2. The Honours program adds a math course (Ordinary Differential Equations) and an Honours thesis project to the ESS Major requirements.
Required Courses (51 credits)
- COMP 202 (3) Introduction to Computing 1
- ENVR 201 (3) Society, Environment and Sustainability
- ESYS 200 (3) Earth System Processes
- ESYS 300 (3) Investigating the Earth System
- ESYS 301 (3) Earth System Modelling
- ESYS 500 (3) Earth System Applications
- MATH 203 (3) Principles of Statistics 1
- MATH 222 (3) Calculus 3
- MATH 315 (3) Ordinary Differential Equations
- ESYS 480 (6) Honours Research Project
Two of the following three courses:
- ATOC 214 (3) Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere
- ENVR 200 (3) The Global Environment
- GEOG 203 (3) Environmental Systems
One of the following two courses:
- GEOG 308 (3) Principles of Remote Sensing
- GEOG 306 (3) Raster Geo-Information Sciences
One of the following two courses:
- BIOL 215 (3) Introduction to Ecology and Evolution
- ENVR 202 (3) The Evolving Earth
One of the following courses:
- EPSC 210 (3) Introductory Mineralogy
- EPSC 220 (3) Principles of Geochemistry
One of the following courses:
- ANTH 339 (3) Ecological Anthropology
- GEOG 217 (3) Cities in the Modern World
- GEOG 221 (3) Environment and Health
- GEOG 300 (3) Human Ecology in Geography
- GEOG 310 (3) Development and Livelihoods
- GEOG 382 (3) Principles of Earth Citizenship
- GEOG 406 (3) Human Dimensions of Climate Change
15 credits from the complementary course list, with at least 3 credits from each of subject codes ATOC, EPSC, and GEOG. At least 9 of the 15 credits must be at the 400-level or higher.
Note: Courses at the 300 level or higher in other departments in the Faculties of Science and Engineering
may also be used as complementary credits, with the permission of an academic adviser.