Submitted to: ARCC
Submitted by: Department of Biology and Chemistry
Date: Oct 30, 2015
Course Modifications
RATIONALE FOR MOTIONS #1 AND #2
The proposed changes will make the following two courses more accessible to
Environmental Science students.
MOTION #1:
That ARCC recommend to the Arts and Science Executive that the prerequisite for BIOL
2346 Techniques in Forest Ecology and Management be changed, as follows:
From: BIOL 1007 or GEOG 1017
To: BIOL 1007 or GEOG 1017 or ENSC 1005
MOTION #2:
That ARCC recommend to the Arts and Science Executive that the prerequisite for BIOL
2446 Principles of Ecology be changed, as follows:
From: BIOL 1007
To: BIOL 1007 or ENSC 1005
RATIONALE FOR MOTIONS #3 AND #4
The proposed change will make this cross-coded course more accessible to
Environmental Science students. ENSC 2006 and ENSC 2007 are appropriate (and in
fact the original) pre-requisites for ENSC3007; this fact was lost when we crosscoded ENSC 3007 as BIOL 3007.
MOTION #3:
That ARCC recommend to the Arts and Science Executive that the prerequisite for
ENSC 3007 Environmental Issues in Forestry be changed, as follows:
From: BIOL 2446
To: BIOL 2446 or ENSC 2006 or ENSC 2007
MOTION #4
That ARCC recommend to the Arts and Science Executive that the prerequisite for BIOL
3007 Environmental Issues in Forestry be changed, as follows:
From: BIOL 2446
To: BIOL 2446 or ENSC 2006 or ENSC 2007
RATIONALE FOR MOTION #5
Students of BIOL, CHEM, GEOG and 19 other disciplines can be rewarded with
Minors by studying courses in those topic areas. At present, there is no Minor for
students who are focusing on our Environmental Science (ENSC) courses. This
Minor is built upon the availability of a backbone of ENSC courses but, following a
pattern set by the University of Toronto and most other Canadian universities that
offer a Minor of Environmental Science, increased flexibility is added by allowing
students the potential to choose some options from among environment-oriented
science courses that are offered under the BIOL, CHEM and GEOG course codes.
MOTION #5
That ARCC recommend to the Arts and Science Executive that the proposed Minor in
Environmental Science be approved:
MINOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Students must complete 18 credits as follows:
First year:
ENSC 1005 Introduction to Environmental Science (6 cr)
Upper year: At least one of: ENSC 2006 Topics in Environmental Science I
or ENSC 2007 Topics in Environmental Science II (3 or 6 cr)
The remaining credits to be taken from the list of approved
courses (see below).
Upper-year ENSC courses
BIOL 2346 Techniques in Forest management
BIOL 2446 Ecology
BIOL 3066 Flora of Ontario
BIOL 3136 Ichthyology
BIOL 3147 Herpetology
BIOL 3236 Plant Ecology
BIOL 3277 Animal Ecology
BIOL/GEOG 3397 Introductory Soil Science
BIOL 3436 Conservation Biology
BIOL 3437 Community Ecology
CHEM 2046 Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 2106 Analytical Chemistry
GEOG 2107 Climatology
GEOG 2126 Physical Hydrology
GEOG 2106 Geomorphology
GEOG 3016 Field Techniques in Geography
GEOG 3057 Environmental Geomorphology
GEOG 3056 Spatial Analysis Using GIS
GEOG 3066 Remote Sensing of the Environment
GEOG 3086 Principles of Biogeography
GEOG 3096 Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 3436 Earth Resources
The courses chosen for the Minor must be in a discipline other than the student’s
program of study (ie Biology students would not choose BIOL courses; Geography
students would not choose GEOG courses).
Students must complete the required courses with a minimum overall average of
60%.
Students should plan ahead to ensure that they have the correct prerequisites for
the courses they intend to take for this Minor.