Environmental Ethics program requirements

What the Environmental Ethics Major and Minor require, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course they name.

Environmental Ethics Major

  • Arts program
  • 6.0 credits
  • Open enrolment
  • ASMAJ1107

Enrolment

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.

Completion requirements

(6.0 credits)

1(ENV221H1, ENV222H1), PHL273H1, JGE321H1

21.0 credit from PHL373H1, ENV333H1, JGE331H1

30.5 credit from ((ENV421Y1/ ENV421H1)/ ENV491Y1/ ENV492H1/ ENV493H1), ENV440H1, ENV451H1

42.5 credits from Group A below.

Note 1Note: Students taking ENV421Y1 or ENV491Y1 for requirement 3 only need to take 2.0 credits from Group A in requirement 4.

Students in this program have the option to complete the Arts & Science Internship Program (ASIP) stream.

Group A: ANT450H1, EAS479H1, CRE271H1, ECO105Y1, ENV330H1, ENV333H1, ENV335H1, ENV347H1, ENV411H1, ENV430H1, ENV464H1, ENV465Y1, FAH446H1, FOR302H1, JIG322H1, HIS218H1, HPS202H1, HPS307H1, INS402H1, JGE331H1, PHL373H1, PHL275H1, PHL295H1, PHL375H1, PHL394H1, PHL395H1, PHL413H1, PSY435H1, RLG318H1, RLG345H1, WGS273H1, WGS442H1

Note:

Note 1Since the elective courses above are offered by various academic units, students are encouraged to carefully check the pre-requisites and enrolment controls or restrictions for the courses before enrolling.

Courses these requirements name

  • ENV221H1Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment
  • ENV222H1Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  • PHL273H1Environmental Ethics
  • JGE321H1Multicultural Perspectives on Environmental Management
  • PHL373H1Issues in Environmental Ethics
  • ENV333H1Ecological Worldviews
  • JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
  • ENV421Y1Community Research for Social & Environmental Change
  • ENV421H1Environmental Research last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV491Y1Independent Studies Project
  • ENV492H1Independent Studies Project
  • ENV493H1Independent Studies Project
  • ENV440H1Professional Experience Course
  • ENV451H1Environmental Justice at a Time of Crisis
  • ANT450H1Multispecies Cities last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
  • EAS479H1Ecocriticism
  • CRE271H1Reading the Wild
  • ECO105Y1Principles of Economics for Non-Specialists
  • ENV330H1Waste Not: Faith-Based Environmentalism
  • ENV335H1Environmental Design
  • ENV347H1The Power of Economic Ideas
  • ENV411H1Sustainability Thinking
  • ENV430H1Community Research in Environment and Faith
  • ENV464H1Communicating Climate Change
  • ENV465Y1Toronto Climate Summer School
  • FAH446H1Arctic Anthropocene? Image Cultures of Arctic Voyaging
  • FOR302H1Societal Values and Forest Management
  • JIG322H1Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
  • HIS218H1Environmental History
  • HPS202H1Technology in the Modern World
  • HPS307H1History of Energy last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
  • INS402H1Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
  • PHL275H1Introduction to Ethics
  • PHL295H1Business Ethics
  • PHL375H1Ethics
  • PHL394H1Markets and Morals
  • PHL395H1Issues in Business Ethics
  • PHL413H1Seminar in Applied Ethics
  • PSY435H1Environmental Psychology
  • RLG318H1Sacred & Secular Nature in Christianity
  • RLG345H1Social Ecology and Judaism
  • WGS273H1Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
  • WGS442H1Toxic Worlds, Decolonial Futures

Environmental Ethics Minor

  • Arts program
  • 4.0 credits
  • Open enrolment
  • ASMIN1107

Enrolment

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.

Completion requirements

(4.0 credits, including include 1.0 credit at the 300+level)

1PHL273H1

2One of PHL373H1, ENV333H1; JGE321H1, JGE331H1

3ENV221H1, ENV222H1

4Additional 2.0 PHL credits, with at least a 0.5 credit at the 300+ level. It is recommended that one course be in the History of Philosophy and the other in the Problems of Philosophy, including a 0.5 credit in ethics.

Courses these requirements name

  • PHL273H1Environmental Ethics
  • PHL373H1Issues in Environmental Ethics
  • ENV333H1Ecological Worldviews
  • JGE321H1Multicultural Perspectives on Environmental Management
  • JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
  • ENV221H1Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment
  • ENV222H1Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Requirements are quoted from the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar, which is the official version. Atlas is independent of U of T, so confirm important decisions with your department or college registrar. See how to read program requirements or browse every program.

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