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Food Production and Environment Domain
This domain is open only to students in the B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment or B.Sc. Major Environment program.
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Bachelor of Science (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Major Environment - Food Production and Environment (63 credits)
This Domain (63 credits including Core) is open only to students in the B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major in Environment or B.Sc. in Environment program.
The business of food production is an area of human activity with a large and intimate interaction with the environment. Modern agriculturalists must strike a delicate balance between trying to provide food for themselves, their families and urban dwellers while trying to minimize environmental damage. When negative effects due to agricultural activities do occur, they are not usually the classic point source effects that we have come to associate with industry or large cities. Rather, the effects are over extremely large land areas cumulating, perhaps, in pollution of river systems or lakes some distance away. As world populations grow, and as diets change, potentially negative interactions between agricultural systems and other facets of the environment will become more frequent. In the same way, urban sprawl will make conflicts between agriculture and urbanites more common.
With a judicious choice of courses, graduates of this Domain may be eligible to apply for membership in the Ordre des agronomes du Québec (OAQ) and the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC).
Program Prerequisites or Corequisites
All students in this program MUST take these pre- or corequisite courses, or their equivalents. These courses are taken as follows:
Location Note: When planning their schedule and registering for courses, students should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both McGill's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Suggested First Year (U1) Courses
For suggestions on courses to take in your first year (U1), you can consult the "MSE Student Handbook 2010-11" available on the MSE website (/mse), or contact Ms. Kathy Roulet, the Program Advisor (kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca).
Program Requirements
NOTE: Students are required to take a maximum of 34 credits at the 200-level and a minimum of 15 credits at the 400-level or higher in this program. This includes Core and Required courses, but does not include the Domain prerequisites or co-requisites listed above.
Location Note: When planning their schedule and registering for courses, students should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both McGill's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Core: Required Courses (18 credits)
Location Note: Core Required Courses for this program are taught at both McGill's downtown campus and at the Macdonald Campus in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. You should register in Section 001 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the downtown campus, and in Section 051 of an ENVR course that you plan to take on the Macdonald campus.
| ENVR 200 | (3) | The Global Environment |
| ENVR 201 | (3) | Society and Environment |
| ENVR 202 | (3) | The Evolving Earth |
| ENVR 203 | (3) | Knowledge, Ethics and Environment |
| ENVR 301 | (3) | Environmental Research Design |
| ENVR 400 | (3) | Environmental Thought |
Domain: Complementary Courses (33 credits)
33 credits of Complementary Courses selected as follows:
15 credits - Basic Sciences
12 credits - Applied Sciences
6 credits - Social Sciences/Humanities
One of the following statistics courses or equivalent:
Note: Credit given for statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students in Science should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Science.
| AEMA 310 | (3) | Statistical Methods 1 |
| MATH 203 | (3) | Principles of Statistics 1 |
Applied Sciences:
12 credits of Applied Sciences from the following:
* Note: you may take BREE 217 or GEOG 322 but not both; you may take FDSC 200 or NUTR 207 but not both.
| AGRI 411 | (3) | Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture |
| AGRI 435 | (3) | Soil and Water Quality Management |
| AGRI 550 | (3) | Sustained Tropical Agriculture |
| BIOL 465 | (3) | Conservation Biology |
| BIOL 553 | (3) | Neotropical Environments |
| BREE 217* | (3) | Hydrology and Water Resources |
| BREE 322 | (3) | Organic Waste Management |
| BREE 518 | (3) | Bio-Treatment of Wastes |
| ENTO 446 | (3) | Apiculture |
| FDSC 200* | (3) | Introduction to Food Science |
| FDSC 535 | (3) | Food Biotechnology |
| GEOG 302 | (3) | Environmental Management 1 |
| GEOG 322* | (3) | Environmental Hydrology |
| GEOG 380 | (3) | Adaptive Environmental Management |
| MICR 331 | (3) | Microbial Ecology |
| NRSC 333 | (3) | Pollution and Bioremediation |
| NRSC 437 | (3) | Assessing Environmental Impact |
| NUTR 207* | (3) | Nutrition and Health |
| NUTR 403 | (3) | Nutrition in Society |
| NUTR 420 | (3) | Toxicology and Health Risks |
| PARA 410 | (3) | Environment and Infection |
| PHAR 303 | (3) | Principles of Toxicology |
| PLNT 434 | (3) | Weed Biology and Control |
| SOIL 315 | (3) | Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Use |
| SOIL 445 | (3) | Agroenvironmental Fertilizer Use |
| SOIL 510 | (3) | Environmental Soil Chemistry |
| SOIL 521 | (3) | Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry |
| WILD 401 | (4) | Fisheries and Wildlife Management |
Social Sciences/Humanities:
6 credits in Social Sciences and Humanities are selected as follows:
* Note: you may take AGEC 200 or ECON 208 but not both; you may take AGEC 333 or ECON 405 but not both.
** Note: If WILD 415 is taken, 1 additional credit of complementary courses must be taken.
| AGEC 200* | (3) | Principles of Microeconomics |
| AGEC 320 | (3) | Intermediate Microeconomic Theory |
| AGEC 333* | (3) | Resource Economics |
| AGEC 430 | (3) | Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy |
| AGEC 442 | (3) | Economics of International Agricultural Development |
| ANTH 418 | (3) | Environment and Development |
| ECON 208* | (3) | Microeconomic Analysis and Applications |
| ECON 225 | (3) | Economics of the Environment |
| ECON 405* | (3) | Natural Resource Economics |
| ENVR 465 | (3) | Environment and Social Change |
| GEOG 404 | (3) | Environmental Management 2 |
| GEOG 410 | (3) | Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems |
| GEOG 498 | (3) | Humans in Tropical Environments |
| GEOG 510 | (3) | Humid Tropical Environments |
| SOCI 254 | (3) | Development and Underdevelopment |
| SOCI 565 | (3) | Social Change in Panama |
| WILD 415** | (2) | Conservation Law |
Faculty:
McGill School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
Faculty:
McGill School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)