College of Sustainability
Location: Mona Campbell Building
1459 LeMarchant St., Room 1401
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Telephone: (902) 494-4581
Fax: 494-8923
Email:
sustainability@dal.ca
Website:
http://www.ess.dal.ca
Deans
Cunningham, P., BA (Queen’s) MBA (Calgary), PhD (Texas Arm)
Moore, C., BA (Hons), PhD (Cambridge)
Macy. C., BA(Arch) (Calif. at Berkeley), MArch (MIT)
Shephard, M., MSc, PhD (Western)
Summerby-Murray, R., ATCL Dip (Trinity College, London), BA, MA (Canterbury), PhD (Toronto)
Director
Mannell, S., BES, BArch (Waterloo)
Telephone: (902) 494-6122
Email:
steven.mannell@dal.ca
Associate Director, Undergraduate
Tirone, S., PhD (University of Waterloo)
Telephone: (902) 494-4031
Email:
susan.tirone@dal.ca
Associate Director, Research and Outreach
Buszard, D., PhD (Imperial College, London University)
Telephone: (902) 494-2791
Email:
deborah.buszard@dal.ca
Undergraduate Advisor
Tae, K., MSc (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Telephone: (902) 494-7860
Email:
kaarin.tae@dal.ca
Administrator
Elliott, S.
Telephone: (902) 494-8929
Email:
sherry.elliott@dal.ca
I. Introduction
The Dalhousie College of Sustainability provides an interdisciplinary forum for collaborative teaching and learning to address global issues in sustainability. A core of cross-appointed Dalhousie teachers are joined by visiting fellows from within the university and from other institutions and advocacy groups to collaborate with students in energetic, problem-based classes and community-based experiential learning opportunities. Teaching is integrated with a broad range of existing Dalhousie degrees and programs, providing a rigorous disciplinary basis for responsive, issues-oriented study. The continual flow of individual students, teachers and community leaders through the College creates an ongoing exchange of ideas, expertise and passions. The College provides a common place at the centre of the Dalhousie community for the study of sustainability-based problems, and hosts an exciting range of public lectures, seminars and other activities.
The undergraduate programs are the first offerings of the College, and will soon be joined by interdisciplinary research, scholarship and graduate programs.
II. Degree Programs
The College offers unique transdisciplinary undergraduate programs in Environment, Sustainability and Society (ESS) in the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Community Design, Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Journalism, and Bachelor of Informatics programs.
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| • | Bachelor of Arts (BA): ESS can be subject A or B with any major/honours subject in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science or the Faculty of Science. |
| • | Bachelor of Science (BSc): ESS can be subject A or B with any major/honours subject in the Faculty of Science. ESS can be subject B in the BSc double major or combined honours with Computer Science. |
| • | Bachelor of Management (BMgmt): ESS can be done as a major. |
| • | Bachelor of Community Design (BCD): ESS can be subject B of a double major or honours, double major. |
| • | Bachelor of Computer Science (BCSc): ESS can be done as a minor. |
| • | Bachelor of Journalism (BJH): ESS can be subject B of the BJH combined honours. |
| • | Bachelor of Informatics (BInf): ESS can be done as a major. |
Program Requirements
A. BA, BSc, Double Major/Combined Honours, Environment, Sustainability and Society
i. Environment, Sustainability and Society as Subject A
Subject A: Environment, Sustainability and Society
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| • | SUST 1000.06 (one full credit in fall term) |
| • | SUST 1001.06 (one full credit in winter term) |
| • | SUST 2000.06 (one full credit in fall term) |
| • | SUST 2001.06 (one full credit in winter term) |
| • | SUST 3000.03 |
| • | SUST 3502.03 |
| • | SUST 4000X/Y.06 |
| • | 3 credits (18 credit hours) from the approved list of ESS electives (at least 2 credits outside subject B) |
Additional requirements for Combined Honours
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| • | SUST 4900X/Y.06 |
| • | Cumulative GPA in Honours subject classes of 3.3, with no individual grade less than C |
Subject B: Any Major/Honours subject in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences or Science
For detailed requirements, please consult the Calendar and Academic Advisor for your allied subject.
ii. Environment, Sustainability and Society as Subject B
Subject A: Any Major/Honours subject in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences or Science or Computer Science (BSc Computer Science only)
For detailed requirements, please consult the Calendar and Academic Advisor for your allied subject.
Subject B: Environment, Sustainability and Society
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| • | SUST 1000.06 (one full credit in fall term) |
| • | SUST 1001.06 (one full credit in winter term) |
| • | SUST 2000.06 or SUST 2001.06 |
| • | 3 credits (18 credit hours) from the approved list of ESS elective (at least 2 credits outside subject A and at least 2 credits above 2000 level) |
General Degree Requirements
For general BA/BSc degree requirements, please go to page 71, College of Arts and Science Degree Requirements.
B. BCD Double Major in Community Design and Sustainability
Subject A: Community Design
See School of Planning for specific requirements
Subject B: Environment, Sustainability and Society
C. BCD Honours, Double Major in Environmental Planning or Urban Design Studies and Sustainability
Qualified BCD students may apply for the Honours program in year 3. See School of Planning for details.
Subject A: Environmental Planning or Urban Design studies
See School of Planning for specific requirements
Subject B: Environment, Sustainability and Society
D. BMgmt Major in Environment, Sustainability and Society
See Faculty of Management, Bachelor of Management Degree program for general requirements
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| • | SUST 1000.06 (one full credit in fall term) |
| • | SUST 1001.06 (one full credit in winter term) |
| • | SUST 2000.06 or SUST 2001.06 |
| • | Three credits (18 credit hours) from the approved list of ESS electives (at least 2 credits outside MGMT and at least 2 credits above 2000 level) |
E. BCSc Minor in Environment, Sustainability and Society
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| • | SUST 1000.06 |
| • | SUST 1001.06 |
| • | SUST 2000.06 or 2001.06 |
| • | 2 full credits (12 credit hours) from approved list of ESS electives above the 2000 level |
| • | 1 full credit (6 credit hours) from approved list of ESS electives above the 1000 level |
F. BJH Combined Honours in Journalism and Environment, Sustainability and Society
See University of Kings College, Bachelor of Journalism program for general requirements.
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| • | SUST 1000.06 |
| • | SUST 1001.06 |
| • | SUST 2000.06 or SUST 2001.06 |
| • | 2 credits (12 credit hours) from approved list of ESS electives above 2000 level |
| • | 1 credit (6 credit hours) from approved list of ESS electives above 1000 level |
G. BInf Major in Environment, Sustainability and Society
See Faculty of Computer Science, Bachelor of Informatics program for general requirements.
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| • | SUST 1000.06 |
| • | SUST 1001.06 |
| • | SUST 2000.06 or SUST 2001.06 |
| • | 2 credits (12 credit hours) from approved list of ESS electives above 2000 level |
| • | 1 credit (6 credit hours) from approved list of ESS electives above 1000 level |
III. Class Descriptions
SUST 1000.06: Introduction to Environment, Sustainability and Society 1.
SUST 1001.06: Introduction to Environment, Sustainability and Society 2.
SUST 2000.06: Humanity in the Natural World: An Introduction to Problem Based Learning.
SUST 2001.06: Environment, Sustainability and Governance: a Global Perspective.
SUST 3000.03: Global Approaches to Environmental Decision-Making.
SUST 3002.03: Environment, Sustainability and Society Internship.
SUST 3502.03: The Campus as a Living Laboratory.
SUST 3950.03: Topics in Environment Sustainability and Society.
SUST 4000.06: Environment, Sustainability and Society Capstone.
SUST 4800.03: Environment Sustainability and Society Independent Study.
SUST 4900.06: Honours Thesis Project.
SUST 4950.03: Advanced Topics in Environment Sustainability and Society.
IV. List of Approved ESS Electives
Note: It is the student's responsibility to check the course calendar for pre-requisites to these courses.
College of Sustainability
SUST 2000.06: Humanity in the Natural World: An Introduction to Problem Based Learning.
SUST 2001.06: Environment, Sustainability and Governance: a Global Perspective.
SUST 3000.03: Global Approaches to Environmental Decision-Making.
SUST 3002.03: Environment, Sustainability and Society Internship.
SUST 3502.03: The Campus as a Living Laboratory.
SUST 3950.03: Topics in Environment Sustainability and Society
SUST 4000X/Y.06: Environment, Sustainability and Society Capstone
SUST 4950.03: Advanced Topics in Environment Sustainability and Society
Faculty of Architecture and Planning
Planning
PLAN 2010.03: Sustainable Community Design.
PLAN 3005.03: Cities and the Environment in History
PLAN 3010.03: Urban Ecology
PLAN 3020.03: Landscape Design
PLAN 3040.03: Reading the Suburbs
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Canadian Studies
CANA 3020.03: Canadian Cultural Landscapes
Classics
CLAS 2025.03: Nature, the Human, Community, and the Divine in the Pre-Modern West
Contemporary Studies
CTMP 3150.03: Nature and History
CTMP 3210.03: Intersecting Bodies, Selves and Environments
CTMP 3220.03: The Aesthetics of Nature
Early Modern Studies
EMSP 2310.03: Women and Gender in Early Modern Science
EMSP 2330.03: Nature Imagined: Literature and Science in Early Modern Europe
EMSP 2410.03: Imagining the Other: The Portrayal of the Non-European World in Early Modern Culture
EMSP 2440.03: Providence, Progress, Degeneration: Early Modern Ideas of Historical Transformation
EMSP 2450.03:The East is Read: Early Modern Conceptions of Asian Thought
EMSP 3000.06: The Study of Nature in Early Modern Europe
EMSP 3330.03: Science and Religion: Historical Perspectives
EMSP 3340.03: Natural Knowledge, Human Nature, and Power: Francis Bacon and the Renaissance
English
ENGL 4005.03: Studies in National Lit: Green
German
GERM 3550.03: Germany and the Environment
History of Science and Technology
HSTC 2206.03: Bio-Politics: Human Nature in Contemporary Thought
HSTC 3210.03: Environmental History I
HSTC 3212.03: The Biosphere: Global Perspectives in Science and Philosophy
History
HIST 3210.03: Canadian Cultural Landscapes
HIST 3370.03: North American Landscapes
HIST 3515.03: Food for thought: History and the Culinary Cultures of the Islamic World
International Development Studies
INTD 2001.03: Introduction to Development 1
INTD 2002.03: Introduction to Development 2
INTD 3002.03: Seminar in Development 4: Development Practice
INTD 3003.03: Development and Activism: Methods of Organization, Manifestation and Dissent
INTD 3102.03: Development and Activism: Methods of Organization, Manifestation and Dissent
INTD 3114.03: Environment and Development
INTD 3304.03: Sustainable Development in Cuba
Philosophy
PHIL 2080.03: Ethics in the World of Business
PHIL 2475.03: Justice in Global Perspective
PHIL 2480.03: Environmental Ethics
PHIL 2485.03: Technology and the Environment
PHIL 2720.03: Ethics and the Good Life
PHIL 3476.03: Liberalism and Global Justice
Political Science
POLI 3380.03: Politics of Climate Change
POLI 3585.03: Politics of the Environment
POLI 3587.03: International Political Economy
POLI 3589.03: Politics of the Sea I
POLI 4590.03: Politics of the Sea II
Religious Studies
RELS 2025.03: Nature, the Human, Community, and the Divine in the Pre-Modern West
Sociology and Social Anthropology
SOSA 2100X/Y.06: Environment and Culture
SOSA 3005.03: Does Industrial Society Have a Future?
SOSA 3060.03: Social Change and Development
SOSA 3183.03: Is Tourism Sustainable?
SOSA 3187.03: Water, Power and People (Special Topic Winter 2012)
SOSA 3189.03: Living in a Globalized World (Special Topic Winter 2012)
SOSA 3190.03: Social Movements
SOSA 3200.03: Environmental Anthropology
SOSA 3211.03: Continuity and Change in Rural Societies
Faculty of Engineering
Environmental Engineering
ENVE 3000.03 /
IDIS 2000.03: Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering
Other Engineering Classes
ENVE 3412.03: Energy and the Environment
ENVE 3432.03: Waste Management
ENVE 4421.03: Biogeochemistry and Bioremediation
ENVE 4651.03: Solar Energy Utilization
CIVL 3451.03: Water Quality and Treatment
MINE 4815.03: Mining and the Environment
Faculty of Health Professions
Health and Human Performance
HAHP 3000.03: Community Development
Faculty of Management
Management
MGMT 3701.03: Resource/Environmental Problem-Solving 1: Sustainable Ecosystems
MGMT 3702.03: Resource/Environmental Problem-Solving 2: Sustainable Industries
MGMT 4701.03: Advanced Resource/Environmental Management
MGMT 4702.03: Advanced Resource/Environmental Management 2
Faculty of Science
Biology
BIOL 2060.03: Introductory Ecology
BIOL 3060.03: Environmental Ecology
BIOL 3061.03: Communities and Ecosystems
BIOL 3063.03: Resource Ecology
BIOL 3065.03: Conservation Biology
BIOL 3069.03: Population Ecology
BIOL 3225.03: Plants in the Human Landscape
BIOL 3601.03: Nature Conservation
BIOL 3615.03: Methods in Ecology
BIOL 3620.03: Field Survey of Terrestrial Biodiversity
BIOL 3623.03: Applied Coastal Ecology - Field intensive, lab and lecture
BIOL 3624.03: Urban Freshwater Systems
BIOL 3666.03: Species Invasions
BIOL 4065.03: Sustainability and Global Change
BIOL 4160.03: Political Ecology
BIOL 4335.03: Marine Impacts
BIOL 4369.03: Fisheries Oceanography
Chemistry
CHEM 2505.03: Environmental Chemistry I
CHEM 4203.03: Environmental Chemistry II
Earth Sciences
ERTH 2410.03: Environmental Issues in Earth Sciences
ERTH 3400.03: Fundamentals of Hydrogeology
ERTH 3402.03: Practical Hydrogeology
ERTH 3410.03: Environmental Geology II
ERTH 3420.03: Geochemistry of Aquatic Environments.
ERTH 3440.03: Geomorphology
ERTH 3450.03: Intro to Landscape Simulation
ERTH 3500.03: Geoscience Information Management
Economics
ECON 2213.03: Emerging Giants: The Economic Rise of China and India
ECON 2216.03: Economics of Global Warming
ECON 2218.03: The Canadian Economy in the New Millennium: Economic Policy Debates for the Next Decade
ECON 2334.03: Globalization and Economic Development: Current Debates
ECON 3310.03: Economic Growth in Historical Perspective
ECON 3317.03: Poverty and Inequality
ECON 3332.03: Resource Economics
ECON 3333.03: Theories of Economic Development
ECON 3335.03: Environmental Economics
Environmental Science Program
ENVS 2001.03: Analytical Environmental Science and Social Responsibility
ENVS 3200.03: Introduction to Environmental Law
ENVS 3225.03: Plants in the Human Landscape
ENVS 3226.03: Economic Botany, Plants and Civilization
ENVS 3300.03 Contaminated Site Management
ENVS 3301.03: Enterprise Sustainability
ENVS 3400.03: Environment and Human Health
ENVS 3501.03: Environmental Problem Solving I
ENVS 3502.03: Environmental Problem Solving II: The Campus as a Living Laboratory (cross-listed with
SUST 3502)
ENVS 3601.03: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
ENVS 4001.03: Environmental Impact Assessment
ENVS 4210.03: Environmental Law II: Natural Law and Unnatural Acts
ENVS 4220.03: International Environmental Law for Scientists
Geography
GEOG 3001.03: Landscape Ecology
GEOG 3005.03: Cities and the Environment
Mathematics
MATH 3400.03: Classical Game Theory
Neuroscience
NESC 2160.03: Animal Behaviour
Oceanography
OCEA 2000.06: Oceanography.
OCEA 3420.03: Geochemistry of Aquatic Environments
OCEA 4000.03: Oceans and Global Change
OCEA 4160.03: Fisheries Oceanography
OCEA 4335.03: Environmental Impacts in Marine Ecosystems
Physics and Atmospheric Science
PHYC 2310.03: Energy and the Environment
PHYC 2800.03: Climate Change
Psychology
PSYO 2080.03: Social Psychology
PSYO 2160.03: Animal Behaviour
PSYO 4090.03: Development of Social Behaviour (Seminar)
