Submitted By: Department of Biology and Chemistry

Submitted to: ARCC

Submitted by: Department of Biology and Chemistry

Date: Oct 30, 2015

Course Modifications

RATIONALEFOR 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 cross-coded ENSC 3007 as BIOL 3007.

MOTION #3:

That ARCC recommend to the Arts and Science Executive that the prerequisite for ENSC 3007Environmental Issues in Forestrybe 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 forBIOL 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 proposedMinor 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

CHEM2106 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.