Environmental Studies
Minor in Environmental Studies
Mailing Address:
Minor in Environmental Studies
c/o Faculty of Arts
University of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB
Canada, E3B 5A3
Phone: (506) 453-4655
Email: arts@unb.ca
Website: www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/undergrad/environmental.html
Coordinator: Dr. Donald Wright
Consulting Committee:
- Dr. John C. Ball (ENGL), BA, MA, PhD (Tor)
- Dr. Heather Millar (POLS), BA, MPP (Simon Fraser); PhD (Tor)
- Dr. Noah Pleshet (ANTH), BA, BCom (USYD); MA, MPhil, PhD (NYU)
- Dr. Donald Wright (POLS), BA (Mount Allison), MA (McGill), PhD (Ottawa)
General Information
The Minor in Environmental Studies offers students the opportunity to take an interdisciplinary approach to exploring and analysing environmental issues.
Eligibility
Admission to the Minor in Environmental Studies is open to students from any Faculty who have completed 30 credit hours (ch) towards a degree. Students are encouraged to begin the Minor in their second year of study and should contact the Environmental Studies Minor Coordinator for program approval and advising.
Program of Study
Students seeking this Minor are required to take at least 24 ch spread across at least three different departments in the Faculty of Arts. These ch are typically chosen from the list below. 12 of these 24 ch must be in upper-year courses (3000-4000 level). With the permission of the Environmental Studies Minor Advisor, students may take up to 6 of these 24 ch from ARTS 1023, 3000, 3002, and 4000.
Anthropology
ANTH 1003 Environment and Climate Change
ANTH 2011 Environment and Infrastructure
ANTH/SOCI 2801 Food and Culture
ANTH 3111 Resource Extraction, Conflict, and Resistance
ANTH 4025 Hunters and Gatherers
ANTH 4144 Culture and Environment
Culture and Media Studies
CCS 3405 Media and Environment
Economics
ECON 3755 Environmental Economics (Requires 3ch of first-year microeconomics)
ECON 3766 Economics of Climate Change (Requires 3ch of first-year microeconomics)
ECON 3801 Transportation Economics
ECON 3865 Energy Economics
English
ENGL 3983 Literature and the Environment
History
HIST 3355 Nature, Culture and the Canadian Environment
HIST 5342 Environmental History of North America
HIST 5345 Natural Resources, Industrialization, and the Environment in Atlantic Canada
Philosophy
PHIL 3208 Ecological Ethics
Political Science
POLS 1803 Politics of Climate Change
POLS 3217 Canadian Environmental Policy
POLS 4724 Topics in Environmental History and Politics
POLS 4725 Climate and Energy Policy
POLS 4734 Political Economy of Energy and the Environment
Sociology
SOCI 3553 Sociology and the Environment
SOCI 3563 Global Perspectives in Environmental Health
