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Major Program (ESYS)

MAJOR IN EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE (57 credits)
Required Courses (36 credits)
ATOC 214 (3) Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere
BIOL 215 (3) Introduction to Ecology and Evolution
ENVR 200 (3) The Global Environment
ENVR 201 (3) Society and Environment
ESYS 200 (3) Earth System Processes
GEOG 203 (3) Environment Systems
MATH 203 (3) Principles of Statistics 1 (or equivalent course)
MATH 222 (3) Calculus 3
GEOG 308 (3) Principles of Remote Sensing
ESYS 300 (3) Investigating the Earth System
ESYS 301 (3) Earth System Modelling
ESYS 500 (3) Earth Systems Applications

Complementary Courses (21 credits)
3 credits, one of the following courses:
EPSC 210 (3) Introductory Mineralogy
EPSC 220 (3) Principles of Geochemistry
18 credits from the following course list, with at least 3 credits
from each of subject codes ATOC, EPSC, and GEOG. At least 9
of the 18 credits must be at the 400 level or higher.
ATOC 215 (3) Oceans, Weather and Climate
ATOC 309 (3) Weather Radars and Satellites
ATOC 315 (3) Water in the Atmosphere
ATOC 412 (3) Atmospheric Dynamics
ATOC 419 (3) Advances in Chemistry of Atmosphere
ATOC 512 (3) Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics
ATOC 513 (3) Waves and Stability
ATOC 530 (3) Climate Dynamics 1
ATOC 531 (3) Climate Dynamics 2
ATOC 540 (3) Synoptic Meteorology 1
ATOC 541 (3) Synoptic Meteorology 2
BIOL 308 (3) Ecological Dynamics
BIOL 309 (3) Mathematical Models in Biology
BIOL 432 (3) Limnology
BIOL 441 (3) Biological Oceanography
BIOL 465 (3) Conservation Biology
BIOL 534 (3) Theoretical Ecology
BIOL 540 (3) Ecology of Species Invasions
BREE 319 (3) Engineering Mathematics (offered on Macdonald Campus)
ECON 347 (3) Economics of Climate Change
ECON 405 (3) Natural Resource Economics
EPSC 212 (3) Introductory Petrology
EPSC 312 (3) Spectroscopy of Minerals
EPSC 320 (3) Elementary Earth Physics
EPSC 330 (3) Earthquakes & Earth Structure
EPSC 331 (3) Field School 2
EPSC 334 (3) Invertebrate Paleontology
EPSC 341 (3) Field School 3
EPSC 350 (3) Tectonics
EPSC 423 (3) Igneous Petrology
EPSC 425 (3) Sediments to Sequences
EPSC 445 (3) Metamorphic Petrology
EPSC 451 (3) Hydrothermal Mineral Deposits
EPSC 452 (3) Mineral Deposits
EPSC 455 (3) Sedimentary Geology
EPSC 519 (3) Isotope Geology
EPSC 525 (3) Subsurface Mapping
EPSC 530 (3) Volcanology
EPSC 542 (3) Chemical Oceanography
EPSC 549 (3) Hydrogeology
EPSC 580 (3) Aqueous Geochemistry
EPSC 590 (3) Applied Geochemistry Seminar
GEOG 272 (3) Earth's Changing Surface
GEOG 305 (3) Soils and Environment
GEOG 306 (3) Raster Geo-Information Science
GEOG 307 (3) Socioeconomic Applications of GIS
GEOG 321 (3) Climatic Environments
GEOG 322 (3) Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 350 (3) Ecological Biogeography
GEOG 351 (3) Quantitative Methods
GEOG 372 (3) Running Water Environments
GEOG 380 (3) Adaptive Environmental Management
GEOG 495 (3) Field Studies - Physical Geography
GEOG 499 (3) Subarctic Field Studies
GEOG 505 (3) Global Biogeochemistry
GEOG 506 (3) Advanced Geographic Information Science
GEOG 522 (3) Advanced Environmental Hydrology
GEOG 535 (3) Remote Sensing and Interpretation
GEOG 536 (3) Geocryology
GEOG 537 (3) Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology
GEOG 550 (3) Historical Ecology Techniques
MATH 314 (3) Advanced Calculus
MATH 315 (3) Ordinary Differential Equations
MATH 317 (3) Numerical Analysis
MATH 319 (3) Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
MATH 323 (3) Probability
MATH 326 (3) Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
MATH 423 (3) Regression and Analysis of Variance
MATH 437 (3) Mathematical Methods in Biology
MATH 447 (3) Stochastic Processes
MATH 525 (3) Sampling Theory and Applications
NRSC 540 (3) Socio-Cultural Issues in Water
PHYS 331 (3) Topics in Classical Mechanics
PHYS 332 (3) Physics of Fluids
PHYS 340 (3) Majors Electricity and Magnetism
PHYS 342 (3) Majors Electromagnetic Waves

Note: Courses at the 300 or higher level in other departments in the Faculties of Science and Engineering may also be used as complementary credits, with the permission of an academic adviser.