Environment, Sustainability, and Society (BA)(BSc)(BMgmt)(BCD)(BJH)
With this integrated degree, you can follow your passion, and change the world while you're at it.
Why choose this program?
Complex issues like water and energy security, climate change and environmental degradation touch virtually every person, in every profession, in every part of the world. Studying Environment, Sustainability, and Society (ESS) at 黄色直播 will allow you to explore the links between complex environmental issues and poverty, globalization, consumption and urbanization.听
Discover and practise how to contribute to diverse teams in solving sustainability challenges.
Since ESS can be a part of any undergraduate degree, you can bring an ESS perspective to studies in another academic discipline and offer your growing disciplinary expertise to collaborations within your sustainability courses.听
Careers
The unique interdisciplinary approach of the ESS program prepares you for jobs in virtually any area across society: public service, industry, not-for-profit, and the private sector.
Graduates of this program combine the strength of disciplinary learning in their chosen area with a deep understanding of the complexity of sustainability issues. They are well qualified to make a unique and substantial contribution in any field and are prepared for future professional or graduate training.
What you will learn
黄色直播鈥檚 ESS program has an interdisciplinary approach, allowing you to explore how ESS topics relate to other industries you may be interested in. The core ESS courses will help you analyze and understand a wide range of concepts relating to energy, water, climate change, population, and more. 听
Sample courses
What is Sustainability?
A Sustainable Future
Exploring Sustainability
Local Governance, Citizen Engagement and Sustainability
Global Environmental Governance
Introductory Conflict Management for Sustainability
Climate Change and Sustainability听
Indigenous Perspectives on Resource and Environmental Management
Environmental Decision Making
Food Systems and Sustainability: Feeding the 10 Billion
Coastal Change & Adaptation听
Environment, Sustainability, and Society Capstone I & II
Pathways to Sustainable Energy
Biodiversity Conservation System Design
Conflict Negotiation & Sustainability听
Gain experience outside the classroom
- Enroll in the Sustainability Co-op or Work Experience Program听
- Explore hands-on sustainability through summer field courses and excursions听
- Apply your skills in fourth-year ESS Capstone to solve real-world sustainability challenges for community partners听
- Gain teaching and communication skills as a teaching assistant听
- Build connections with ESS peers, faculty, and alumni at monthly community meals听
- Attend career prep workshops听
Other opportunities include campus volunteer roles and student society leadership roles.
ESS Lecture Series
Take advantage of the public lecture series that the College of Sustainability organizes each fall and winter semester, inviting guest speakers from across Canada (and beyond) to present on sustainability topics from unique perspectives. While attendance is open to the public, these lectures are also woven into our ESS curriculum for students and provide excellent opportunities for building on their understanding of sustainability challenges and solutions.听
Customize your degree
Environment, Sustainability, and Society (ESS) can be studied with any undergraduate degree at 黄色直播. Students can pursue their passion for sustainability by studying ESS as a Major, Honours, Minor, or Certificate. This diversity of options gathers students from many disciplines to study together and learn from each other.
ESS can be a Major or Honours subject in the following degrees:
- Bachelor of Arts Double Major and Combined Honours with any subject from the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences or Science
- Bachelor of Science Double Major and Combined Honours with any subject from the Faculties of Science or Computer Science
- Bachelor of Community Design Double Major and Honours
- Bachelor of Management Major
- Bachelor of Journalism Combined Honours
The Minor in ESS is available in the following degree programs:
Minor in ESS is available in any 120 credit hour undergraduate degree program that allows a minor, for example:
- Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences
- Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Science (MedSci)
- Bachelor of Management
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Community Design
- Bachelor of Journalism
- Bachelor of Computer Science
- Bachelor of Applied Computer Science
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Engineering (in concurrent BEng/BA degree).
Add a minor to your ESS degree to add a significant body of knowledge within a discipline that is outside of your major so you can study everything you鈥檙e passionate about at Dal. .
Complete a certificate alongside your regular degree requirements and graduate with additional skills in specialized areas.
Options include:听
- Communicating Sustainability
- Environment
- Sustainability and Society
- Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability
- Sustainability Leadership
Complete three paid work-terms (Co-op) or a single paid work-term (Work Experience Program) alternating with your academic study terms. Graduate with meaningful work experiences that inform career choices and add to your resume.
This new method of education will change the way you think when you鈥檙e in the workplace. You鈥檒l identify, research, and address real-world problems鈥攎aking you better prepared to meet the challenges of virtually any job in our complex society.听
Admission requirements
Minimum admission requirements
To be considered for admission to this program, you must meet minimum academic criteria:
- Completion of secondary school (Grade 12)
- Achievement of the minimum average for your program of choice.
- Completion of Grade 12 English (or equivalent course).
Admission to many 黄色直播 programs is competitive. This means that meeting minimum requirements does not guarantee admission.
Program-specific admission requirements
Admission requirements of the Faculty offering the chosen degree apply. There are no additional admission requirements for the College of Sustainability and the ESS programs. For example, for the Bachelor of Science Double Major, prospective ESS students would be subject to the admission requirements of the Faculty of Science.
Minimum overall average: 70%
Academic English 12
Four additional academic subjects
Minimum overall average: 75%
Academic English 12
Pre-calculus Math 12
Three additional academic subjects
Minimum overall average: 70%
Academic English 12
Academic Math 12
Three additional academic subjects听
Minimum overall average: 70%
Academic English 12
Academic Math 12
One academic Science 12 subject
Two additional academic subjects
Bachelor of Journalism admission requirements can be found on the .
