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Note: This is the 2017–2018 eCalendar. Update the year in your browser's URL bar for the most recent version of this page, or .
Note: This is the 2017–2018 eCalendar. Update the year in your browser's URL bar for the most recent version of this page, or .
Bioresource Engineering : Problem definition and literature Review.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 691.
Bioresource Engineering : Written and oral presentation of thesis proposal to the research Supervisory Committee.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 692.
Bioresource Engineering : Methodology development.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 693.
Bioresource Engineering : Experimentation 1.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 694.
Bioresource Engineering : Experimentation 2.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 695.
Bioresource Engineering : Data analysis.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 696.
Bioresource Engineering : Draft thesis preparation.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 697.
Bioresource Engineering : Thesis completion and acceptance.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 698.
Bioresource Engineering : To give seminars and participate in discussions.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Clark, Grant (Fall) Dumont, Marie-Josee (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 651.
Bioresource Engineering : To give seminars and participate in discussions.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Clark, Grant (Fall) Dumont, Marie-Josee (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 652.
Bioresource Engineering : Review and critique papers that are published in field of the candidate. Prepare draft paper(s) following the format of leading journals in field of study undertaken.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Summer 2018
Instructors: Orsat, Valerie (Fall) Orsat, Valerie (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Periodic conferences
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 699.
Environment : Analysis of current environmental policies to reveal implicit and explicit assumptions regarding scientific methods, hypothesis testing, subject/object, causality, certainty, deities, health, development, North-South concerns for resources, commons, national sovereignty, equity. Discussion of implications of such assumptions for building future environmental policies.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Hirose, Iwao; van der Ven, Hamish (Fall) Hickey, Gordon (Winter)
Restriction: Enrolment in the Graduate Environment Option or enrolment in the Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor.
Environment : Interdisciplinary environmental research seminars with the goals of appreciating both the breadth and interconnectedness of environmental research questions.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Sieber, Renee (Fall)
Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
Environment : Environmental seminars and workshops focused on critical thinking, critical review of articles, team work, effective public speaking, grantmanship.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Sieber, Renee (Winter)
Restriction: Open to students registered in the Environment Option.
Environment : Final research seminar.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Sieber, Renee (Winter)
Prerequisite: ENVR 650.
Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
Chosen from the following:
Environment : How the problem of environmental degradation is dealt with at the international level. The scope and nature of global environmental protection issues that cross boundaries, both physical and conceptual. Actors, structures and processes of international society. Consideration of global commons and transnational resources and of environmental externalities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: ENVR 201 or ENVR 203 or permission of instructor
Restrictions: Open to students in the Environment Graduate Option (available to other students with permission of instructor). (Not open to students who have taken ENVR 580 -- section 001 -- in Winter 2002, Fall 2003, or Fall 2004
Note: This course has been offered three times as a Topics in Environment Course
Environment : Utility of geographic information systems, remote sensing and spatially-explicit modelling for environmental planning in conjunction with analytical frameworks used in the decision-making process (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, life-cycle analysis and multi-criteria decision making).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Environment : How major environmental problems affect the health of human and non-human species, and how environment and health interact at different spatial and temporal scales and with different components of the ecosystem. Immediate, chronic and evolutionary consequences on health. Uncertainty and causation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open to students in the Environment Option (available to other students with permission of instructor).
Environment : Tools and knowledge needed to evaluate landscapes for sustainable management. Processes that shape landscapes, consequences of alternate landscape patterns on ecological flows, implications of management choices on biodiversity and sustainability, and need for social innovations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Students registered in Environment Option, or permission of instructor.
Note: An understanding of ecological principles is required to take this course. Comparative case studies will be used.
Environment : Considers ways to reduce the human impact on Earth's life support systems through variables such as population size, wealth, technology, and conduct. Critically describes ethical frameworks for judging personal and policy choices, including post-collapse scenarios.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Brown, Peter Gilbert (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
Environment : Seminars and discussion of advanced, interdisciplinary aspects of current problems in environment led by staff and/or special guests.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: students taking the Neotropical Environment Option.
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
or another 500-, 600-, or 700-level course recommended by the Advisory Committee and approved by the Environment Option Committee.