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Renewable Resource Management Domain

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Renewable Resource Management Domain

This domain is open only to students in the B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Major Environment or B.Sc. Major Environment program.

Advisor Mentor
  • Ms. Kathy Roulet, MSE Program Advisor
  • Email: kathy.roulet [at] mcgill.ca
  • Telephone: 514-398-4306
  • Professor Sylvie deBlois
  • Email: sylvie.deblois [at] mcgill.ca
  • Telephone: 514-398-7851

Bachelor of Science (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) or Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Major Environment - Renewable Resource Management (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. Major in Environment program.

Renewable resource management is an emerging field that focuses on the ecosystem structures and processes required to sustain the delivery, to humanity, of ecosystem goods and services such as food, clean water and air, essential nutrients, and the provision of beauty and inspiration. Renewable resource management recognizes humans as integral components of ecosystems and is used to develop goals that are consistent with sustainability and ecosystem maintenance.

The Renewable Resource Management domain provides students with an understanding of: 1) the interactions between physical and biological factors that determine the nature and dynamics of populations and entities in the natural environment; 2) the ways in which ecosystems can be managed to meet specific goals for the provision of goods and services; 3) the economic and social factors that determine how ecosystems are managed; 4) the ways in which management of natural resources can affect the capability of natural ecosystems to continue to supply human needs in perpetuity; and 5) the approaches and technologies required to monitor and analyze the dynamics of natural and managed ecosystems.

Program Prerequisites or Corequisites

All students in this program MUST take the following pre- or corequisite courses:

One of the following biology courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XU):

BIOL 112 (3) Cell and Molecular Biology
LSCI 211 (3) Biochemistry 1

One of the following chemistry courses or CEGEP equivalent (e.g., CEGEP objective 00XV).

CHEM 212 (4) Introductory Organic Chemistry 1
FDSC 230 (4) Organic Chemistry

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 30 credits at the 200-level and a minimum of 12 credits at the 400-level or higher in this program. This includes Core and Required courses, but does not include the Domain prerequisites or corequisites 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 ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ'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 ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ'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

Core: Complementary Course - Senior Research Project (3 credits)

Only 3 credits will be applied to the program; extra credits will count as electives.

AGRI 519 (6) Sustainable Development Plans
ENVR 401 (3) Environmental Research
ENVR 451 (6) Research in Panama

Domain: Complementary Courses (42 credits)

42 credits of Complementary Courses are selected as follows:

9 credits - basic principles of ecosystem processes and diversity

6 credits - 3 credits from each category of Statistics and GIS

6 credits - advanced ecosystem components

6 credits - advanced ecological processes

6 credits - social processes

9 credits - ecosystem components or management of ecosystems

Basic Principles of Ecosystem Processes:

9 credits of basic principles of ecosystem processes and diversity are selected as follows:

one of:

AEBI 210 (3) Organisms 1
AEBI 211 (3) Organisms 2
BIOL 305 (3) Animal Diversity

one of:

BIOL 308 (3) Ecological Dynamics
ENVB 305 (3) Population & Community Ecology

one of:

ENVB 210 (3) The Biophysical Environment
GEOG 305 (3) Soils and Environment

Statistics

one of:

AEMA 310 (3) Statistical Methods 1
BIOL 373 (3) Biometry

GIS Methods

one of:

GEOG 201 (3) Introductory Geo-Information Science
NRSC 430 (3) GIS for Natural Resource Management

Advanced Ecosystem Components:

6 credits of advanced ecosystem components selected from:

BIOL 553 (3) Neotropical Environments
GEOG 372 (3) Running Water Environments
PLNT 358 (3) Flowering Plant Diversity
SOIL 326 (3) Soils in a Changing Environment
WILD 307 (3) Natural History of Vertebrates

Advanced Ecological Processes:

6 credits of advanced ecological processes selected from:

*Note: you may take BIOL 432 or ENVB 315 but not both; you can take BREE 217 or GEOG 322 but not both.

BIOL 432* (3) Limnology
BIOL 465 (3) Conservation Biology
BREE 217* (3) Hydrology and Water Resources
ENVB 315* (3) Science of Inland Waters
ENVB 410 (3) Ecosystem Ecology
GEOG 322* (3) Environmental Hydrology
MICR 331 (3) Microbial Ecology
NRSC 333 (3) Pollution and Bioremediation
PLNT 460 (3) Plant Ecology
WILD 410 (3) Wildlife Ecology

Social Processes:

6 credits of social processes selected as follows:

* If WILD 415 is taken, 1 additional credit of complementary courses must be taken.

AGEC 242 (3) Management Theories and Practices
ANTH 339 (3) Ecological Anthropology
CANS 407 (3) Regions of Canada
GEOG 382 (3) Principles Earth Citizenship
GEOG 498 (3) Humans in Tropical Environments
RELG 270 (3) Religious Ethics and the Environment
SOCI 565 (3) Social Change in Panama
URBP 520 (3) Globalization: Planning and Change
WILD 415* (2) Conservation Law

Ecosystem Components or Management of Ecosystems:

9 credits of ecosystem components or management of ecosystems selected from:

AGRI 435 (3) Soil and Water Quality Management
AGRI 452 (3) Water Resources in Barbados
AGRI 550 (3) Sustained Tropical Agriculture
GEOG 302 (3) Environmental Management 1
GEOG 380 (3) Adaptive Environmental Management
GEOG 404 (3) Environmental Management 2
NRSC 437 (3) Assessing Environmental Impact
PLNT 300 (3) Cropping Systems
SOIL 335 (3) Soil Ecology and Management
WILD 401 (4) Fisheries and Wildlife Management
WOOD 441 (3) Integrated Forest Management
³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ School of Environment—2010-2011 (last updated Apr. 22, 2010) (disclaimer)
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