Recommended Courses for BES Students

List of recommended Science, Business, and Arts courses for Bachelor of Environmental Science (BES) students

Science

Applied Human Sciences

  • Foods and Nutrition 2230 – Nutrition and Dietary Behaviour

Biology

  • 1310 – Genes, Cells & Macromolecules
  • 1320 – Organisms and Their Environment
  • 2220 – Ecology
  • 2020 – Botany
  • 2040 – Zoology
  • 3110 – Plants and People
  • 3140 – Plant Community Ecology
  • 3270 – Field Coastal Ecology
  • 3510 – Ornithology
  • 3710 – Life of Mammals
  • 3910 – Marine Biology
  • 4520 – Biogeography and Macroecology
  • 4540 – Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
  • 4620 – Watershed Ecology
  • 4650 – Marine Community Ecology
  • 4850 – Environmental Toxicology

Chemistry

  • 1110 – General Chemistry I
  • 1120 – General Chemistry II
  • 2020 – Environmental Chemistry (please note that only CHEM 1110 is required as a prerequisite)
  • 2430 – Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences

Physics

  • 2610 – Energy, Environment and the Economy
  • 2630 – Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Business

  • 1010 – Introduction to Business
  • 1410 – Marketing
  • 1710 – Organizational Behaviour
  • 2120 – Business Presentations and Communications
  • 2510 – Introduction to Management Science
  • 2650 – Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
  • 2750 – Introduction to Biotechnology
  • 3730 – Tourism Management

Arts

Economics

  • 2110 – Introduction to Resource Economics
  • 2150 – Environmental Economics
  • 2830 – Agricultural Economics

English

  • 3220 – English Canadian Poetry
  • 3310 – The Literature of Atlantic Canada
  • 3350 – British Romantic Literature
  • 3620 – 19th century American literature, 1830-1910

History

  • 2310 – The Atlantic Region
  • 3310 – History of Prince Edward Island: Pre-Confederation
  • 3320 – History of Prince Edward Island: Post-Confederation
  • 4830 – History of the Environmentalism

International Studies

  • 2010 – Introduction to International Development Studies

Modern Languages

  • 2110 – Latin American Studies: South America

Philosophy

  • 1020 – Introduction to Ethics and Social Philosophy
  • 1050 – Technology, Values, and Science
  • 1110 – Critical Thinking
  • 2060 – Animal Ethics
  • 3010 – Philosophy of Science
  • 3710 – Community-Based Ethical Inquiry

Political Science

  • 1010 – Introductory Politics I: Government and Politics in Liberal Democracies
  • 1020 – Introductory Politics II: Political Ideologies in Liberal Democracies
  • 2530 – Introduction to Political Theory

Psychology

  • 1010 – Introduction to Psychology: Part I
  • 2420 – Introduction to Social Psychology
  • 3330 – Ecopsychology
  • 3620 – Ergonomics

Religious Studies

  • 1020 – Religions of the World: Eastern Traditions

Sociology

  • 2710 – Self and Society
  • 2820 – Social Psychology
  • 3050 – Population and Society
  • 3320 – Methodology and Research II
  • 3720 – Collective Behaviour and Social Movements
  • 3920 – Media and Society

Sociology/Anthropology

  • 2220 – Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
  • 2660 – Science, Culture and Society
  • 3410 – Technology, Society, and the Environment