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Course Descriptions

Below are descriptions of the core courses you'll complete during Terms 1 and 2. Elective courses are not offered during this period, as you'll also engage in professional development activities and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) competency building. Together, these components prepare you for your co‑op work term in Term 3.
This course focuses on sustainability as it is understood and implemented at the community scale, with particular emphasis on municipal contexts, local institutions, and place-based decision-making. Students engage with sustainability challenges as they arise in communities through policies, governance structures, planning processes, and institutional frameworks. The course emphasizes applied problem-solving and decision-making at a foundational scale, providing students with practical insight into how sustainability principles are translated into action within communities, municipalities, and local organizations.

This course introduces environmental planning and management through a sustainability and resilience lens, covering key frameworks used across diverse environments (e.g. urban, aquatic, terrestrial, etc). It examines how human use of resources and resulting environmental impacts shape modern management challenges.

This course examines how environmental and social performance has become integral to business success alongside financial outcomes. You'll explore the “triple bottom line” and how sustainability expectations from markets, customers and investors are driving innovation, strategy and competitive advantage.

This course develops students’ ability to source, analyze, visualize, and interpret environmental data. Through hands-on work with real-world datasets, technical exercises, and an independent project, students build practical skills in data management, statistical and geospatial analysis, evidence evaluation, and communication to support informed environmental decision-making.
This course introduces the fundamentals of environmental science and engineering and how they work together to support a healthy, sustainable environment. Through case studies, it examines major environmental challenges while developing problem-solving skills related to pollution control, waste treatment, energy systems and sustainability.
This course focuses on the concept of ecosystem health as a framework for understanding, assessing, and managing environmental systems. Students examine ecosystem structure and function, indicators of ecological condition, and approaches used to evaluate ecosystem integrity across terrestrial and aquatic systems. Emphasis is placed on applying ecosystem health concepts to real-world environmental challenges, including monitoring, assessment, and decision-making in sustainability and conservation contexts. Students will engage deeply with ecological principles while distinguishing conceptual ecosystem analysis from technical data analysis and visualization skills developed elsewhere in the program.
This applied course focuses on Indigenous-led perspectives on environment and sustainability and emphasizes respectful, collaborative engagement with Indigenous partners. Students examine environmental and sustainability issues through Indigenous worldviews by directly partnering with local First Nations communities and presenting work to them. The course provides an opportunity for students to implement and deepen learning introduced through the Indigenous Allyship milestone, applying these principles in practical contexts related to environmental management, sustainability practice, and professional engagement.

This course provides hands-on experience in applied environmental consulting through client-based research projects. You'll work in teams to conduct primary and secondary research, produce a professional report and present findings and recommendations to a real-world client.