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 โ€“ Nutrition and Dietary Behaviour

Biology

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

Chemistry

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

Physics

  • 2610 โ€“ Energy, Environment and the Economy
  • 2630 โ€“ Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Business

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

Arts

Economics

  • 2110 โ€“ Introduction to Resource Economics
  • 2150 โ€“ Environmental Economics
  • 2830 โ€“ Agricultural Economics

English

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

History

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

International Studies

  • 2010 โ€“ Introduction to International Development Studies

Modern Languages

  • 2110 โ€“ Latin American Studies: South America

Philosophy

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

Political Science

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

Psychology

  • 1010 โ€“ Introduction to Psychology: Part I
  • 2420 โ€“ Introduction to Social Psychology
  • 3330 โ€“ Ecopsychology
  • 3620 โ€“ Ergonomics

Religious Studies

  • 1020 โ€“ Religions of the World: Eastern Traditions

Sociology

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

Sociology/Anthropology

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