Environmental Studies program requirements

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

Environmental Studies Major

  • Arts program
  • 7.0 credits
  • Open enrolment
  • ASMAJ1254

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

For more information, please e-mail the School of the Environment’s Undergraduate Administrator at ug.office.env@utoronto.ca.

(7.0 credits, including 2.5 credits at the 300+ level and a 0.5 credit at the 400-level)

First Year: ENV100H1 is recommended but not required.

Higher Years:

1ENV221H1, ENV222H1, ENV223H1, ENV338H1.

2ENV200H1

30.5 credit from the following Environmental Policy, Law & Society courses: ENV320H1, ENV322H1, ENV323H1, ENV347H1, ENV350H1, ENV422H1, JGE331H1.

40.5 credit from among the following Environmental Thought & Ethics courses: ENV333H1, JGE321H1, CLA373H1, PHL273H1, WGS273H1.

5One of (ENV421H1/ ENV421Y1)/ ENV440H1/ ENV451H1/ ENV461H1/ ENV463H1/ ENV465Y1.

6An additional 3.0 credits from any combination of courses listed in the three groups below*, with no more than 1.0 credit from Group C: Environmental Science.

Note 1Note: If either ENV421Y1 or ENV465Y1 is taken for requirement 5 above, students need only take an additional 2.5 credits for this requirement.

*Students may choose to take these credits from courses across the three groups or within a particular group, depending on their interest.

Group A: Environmental Policy, Law & Society Courses

ANT346H1, ANT364H1, ANT374H1, CSE342H1, ECO313H1, ECO314H1, ECO414H1, ENV261H1/ ENV360H1, ENV281H1, ENV282H1, ENV307H1, ENV320H1, ENV322H1, ENV323H1, ENV335H1, ENV347H1, ENV350H1, ENV361H1, ENV362H1, ENV381H1, ENV382H1, ENV397Y0, ENV411H1, ENV422H1, ENV462H1, ENV464H1, FOR302H1, FOR303H1, FOR310H1, GGR223H1, GGR310H1, GGR329H1, GGR332H1, GGR334H1, GGR338H1, GGR341H1, GGR349H1, GGR416H1, GGR418H1, GGR434H1, GGR433H1, GGR438H1, HIS218H1, HIS300H1, HIS408H1, HPS307H1, HPS313H1, HPS316H1, HPS324H1, JGE321H1, JGE331H1, JGE481H1, JIG322H1, JIG440H1, POL205H1, POL384H1, POL413H1, RSM466H1, TRN312H1

Note 2Note: GGR223H1 is NOT a substitute for ENV222H1.

Group B: Environmental Thought & Ethics Courses

INS250H1, INS402H1, ANT368H1, ANT376H1, CLA373H1, CRE271H1, EAS479H1, ENV330H1, ENV333H1, ENV430H1, FAH446H1, FOR302H1, FOR303H1, GGR419H1, HPS316H1, JGE321H1, JIG322H1, PHL273H1, PHL373H1, PSY435H1, RLG318H1, RLG345H1, WGS273H1, WGS442H1

Group C: Environmental Science Courses

EEB240H1/ ENV234H1, ENV262H1, ENV337H1, ENV341H1, ENV342H1, ENV395Y0, ENV396H0, ENV396Y0, ENV431H1, ENV441H1, FOR200H1, FOR201H1, FOR400Y1, FOR401H1, GGR272H1, GGR273H1, GGR314H1, GGR337H1, ESS205H1, JEH455H1

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

Notes:

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.

Note 2Daniels students enrolled in this program may be able to fulfill 1.5 credits in requirement 6 with ARC357H1 and any two of the following courses: ARC382H1, ARC386H1, and ARC387H1. Please contact the Undergraduate Administrator at ug.office.env@utoronto.ca to request that these exceptions be posted on Degree Explorer.

Courses these requirements name

  • ENV100H1Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • ENV221H1Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment
  • ENV222H1Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  • ENV223H1Fundamental Environmental Skills
  • ENV338H1Environmental Research Data and Decision-making
  • ENV200H1Assessing Global Change: Science and the Environment
  • ENV320H1National Environmental Policy
  • ENV322H1International Environmental Policy
  • ENV323H1Ontario Environmental Policy
  • ENV347H1The Power of Economic Ideas
  • ENV350H1Energy Policy and Environment
  • ENV422H1Environmental Law
  • JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
  • ENV333H1Ecological Worldviews
  • JGE321H1Multicultural Perspectives on Environmental Management
  • CLA373H1The Environment in the Greco-Roman World
  • PHL273H1Environmental Ethics
  • WGS273H1Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
  • ENV421H1Environmental Research last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV421Y1Community Research for Social & Environmental Change
  • ENV440H1Professional Experience Course
  • ENV451H1Environmental Justice at a Time of Crisis
  • ENV461H1The U of T Campus as a Living Lab of Sustainability
  • ENV463H1Edible Campus
  • ENV465Y1Toronto Climate Summer School
  • ANT346H1Anthropology of Food
  • ANT364H1Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
  • ANT374H1Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
  • CSE342H1Theory and Praxis in Food Security
  • ECO313H1Environmental Economics and Policies
  • ECO314H1Energy and the Environment
  • ECO414H1Energy and Regulation
  • ENV261H1Is the Internet Green? last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV360H1Is the Internet Green?
  • ENV281H1Special Topics in Environment
  • ENV282H1Special Topics in the Environment
  • ENV307H1Urban Sustainability
  • ENV335H1Environmental Design
  • ENV361H1Social Media and Environmentalism
  • ENV362H1Energy & Environment: Transitions in History
  • ENV381H1Special Topics in Environment
  • ENV382H1Special Topics in Environment
  • ENV397Y0Costa Rica: A Living Laboratory for Sustainability in Practice
  • ENV411H1Sustainability Thinking
  • ENV462H1Energy and Environment: Economics, Politics, and Sustainability
  • ENV464H1Communicating Climate Change
  • FOR302H1Societal Values and Forest Management
  • FOR303H1Human Dimensions of Global Forests
  • FOR310H1Bioenergy from Sustainable Forest Management
  • GGR223H1Environment, Society and Resources
  • GGR310H1Bioenergy from Sustainable Forest Management last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • GGR329H1The Global Food System
  • GGR332H1Social Geographies of Climate Change
  • GGR334H1Water Resource Management
  • GGR338H1Social Transformation and Environment in the Majority World
  • GGR341H1The Changing Geography of Latin America
  • GGR349H1Managing Urban Natures
  • GGR416H1Environmental Impact Assessment
  • GGR418H1Geographies of Extraction
  • GGR434H1Building Community Resilience
  • GGR433H1Built Environment and Health
  • GGR438H1Environment and Development
  • HIS218H1Environmental History
  • HIS300H1Energy and Environment in Canadian History
  • HIS408H1Advanced Topics in Environmental History
  • HPS307H1History of Energy last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
  • HPS313H1Two Hundred Years of Electricity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
  • HPS316H1Environment, Technology, and Nature
  • HPS324H1Natural Science and Social Issues
  • JGE481H1Field Course in Environmental Geography
  • JIG322H1Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
  • JIG440H1Indigenous Geographies
  • POL205H1International Relations in the Anthropocene
  • POL384H1Global Environmental Governance from the Ground Up
  • POL413H1Global Environmental Politics
  • RSM466H1Environmental and Social Responsibility
  • TRN312H1Sustainability Issues in Ethics, Society, and Law
  • INS250H1Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies
  • INS402H1Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
  • ANT368H1Nature Culture Human last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
  • ANT376H1Anthropology of Animals
  • CRE271H1Reading the Wild
  • EAS479H1Ecocriticism
  • ENV330H1Waste Not: Faith-Based Environmentalism
  • ENV430H1Community Research in Environment and Faith
  • FAH446H1Arctic Anthropocene? Image Cultures of Arctic Voyaging
  • GGR419H1Environmental Justice
  • PHL373H1Issues in Environmental Ethics
  • PSY435H1Environmental Psychology
  • RLG318H1Sacred & Secular Nature in Christianity
  • RLG345H1Social Ecology and Judaism
  • WGS442H1Toxic Worlds, Decolonial Futures
  • EEB240H1Environmental Biology: From Organisms to Ecosystems
  • ENV234H1Environmental Biology: Structure and Function of Ecosystems last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV262H1The Science of Energy in the Environment
  • ENV337H1Human Interactions with the Environment
  • ENV341H1Environment and Health
  • ENV342H1Ecology of the Mind
  • ENV395Y0Special Topics Field Course
  • ENV396H0Special Topics Field Course
  • ENV396Y0Special Topics Field Course
  • ENV431H1Urban Sustainability & Ecological Technology
  • ENV441H1Planetary Health: Environmental Change and Human Health
  • FOR200H1Conservation of Canada's Forests
  • FOR201H1Conservation of Tropical and Subtropical Forests
  • FOR400Y1Advanced Seminar in Forest Conservation
  • FOR401H1Research Paper/Thesis in Forest Conservation
  • GGR272H1Geographic Information and Mapping I
  • GGR273H1Geographic Information and Mapping II
  • GGR314H1Global Warming
  • GGR337H1Environmental Remote Sensing last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ESS205H1Confronting Global Change
  • JEH455H1Current Issues in Environment and Health
  • ARC357H1
  • ARC382H1
  • ARC386H1
  • ARC387H1

Environmental Studies Minor

  • Arts program
  • 4.0 credits
  • Open enrolment
  • ASMIN1254

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

For more information, please e-mail the School of the Environment’s Undergraduate Administrator at ug.office.env@utoronto.ca.

(4.0 credits, including 1.5 credits at the 300+ level)

First Year: ENV100H1 is recommended but not required.

Higher Years:

1ENV221H1, ENV222H1

2ENV200H1

3Additional 2.5 credits, of which a maximum 1.0 credit may be environmental courses offered by academic units other than the School of the Environment (from Group A below). The remainder must be selected from the following: ENV261H1/ ENV360H1, ENV281H1, ENV282H1, ENV307H1, ENV320H1, ENV322H1, ENV323H1, ENV330H1, JGE321H1, JGE331H1, ENV333H1, ENV335H1, ENV338H1, ENV347H1, ENV350H1, ENV361H1, ENV362H1, ENV381H1, ENV382H1, ENV395Y0, ENV396H0, ENV396Y0, ENV411H1*, ENV421Y1/ ENV421H1*, ENV422H1*, ENV430H1*, ENV431H1*, ENV440H1*, ENV461H1, ENV462H1, ENV463H1, ENV464H1, ENV465Y1, JGE481H1, PHL273H1.

*with permission of Undergraduate Associate Director

Group A

ANT364H1, ANT368H1, ANT450H1, CHM210H1, CLA373H1, CRE271H1, CSE342H1, EAS479H1, ECO313H1, ECO314H1, ECO414H1, EEB240H1/ ENV234H1, ENV262H1, ENV337H1, ENV341H1, ENV342H1, ENV397Y0, ENV441H1, FAH446H1, FOR200H1, FOR201H1, FOR302H1, FOR303H1, FOR310H1, FOR400Y1, FOR401H1, GGR223H1, GGR272H1, GGR273H1, GGR310H1, GGR314H1, GGR332H1, GGR334H1, GGR338H1, GGR349H1, GGR416H1, GGR418H1, GGR419H1, GGR438H1, GGR433H1, HIS218H1, HIS300H1, HIS408H1, HPS307H1, HPS313H1, HPS316H1, HPS324H1, INS250H1, INS402H1, JIG322H1, JIG440H1, PHL373H1, POL205H1, POL384H1, POL413H1, PSY435H1, RLG318H1, RLG345H1, RSM466H1, TRN312H1, WGS273H1, WGS442H1, other courses approved by School of the Environment.

Notes:

Note 1GGR223H1 is NOT a substitute for ENV222H1.

Note 2Since 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.

Note 3Daniels students enrolled in this program may be able to fulfill 1.0 credit in requirement 6 with two of the following ARC courses, provided no other Group A courses are being counted: ARC357H1, ARC382H1, ARC386H1, and ARC387H1. Please contact the Undergraduate Administrator at ug.office.env@utoronto.ca to request that these exceptions be posted on Degree Explorer.

Courses these requirements name

  • ENV100H1Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • ENV221H1Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment
  • ENV222H1Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  • ENV200H1Assessing Global Change: Science and the Environment
  • ENV261H1Is the Internet Green? last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV360H1Is the Internet Green?
  • ENV281H1Special Topics in Environment
  • ENV282H1Special Topics in the Environment
  • ENV307H1Urban Sustainability
  • ENV320H1National Environmental Policy
  • ENV322H1International Environmental Policy
  • ENV323H1Ontario Environmental Policy
  • ENV330H1Waste Not: Faith-Based Environmentalism
  • JGE321H1Multicultural Perspectives on Environmental Management
  • JGE331H1Resource and Environmental Theory
  • ENV333H1Ecological Worldviews
  • ENV335H1Environmental Design
  • ENV338H1Environmental Research Data and Decision-making
  • ENV347H1The Power of Economic Ideas
  • ENV350H1Energy Policy and Environment
  • ENV361H1Social Media and Environmentalism
  • ENV362H1Energy & Environment: Transitions in History
  • ENV381H1Special Topics in Environment
  • ENV382H1Special Topics in Environment
  • ENV395Y0Special Topics Field Course
  • ENV396H0Special Topics Field Course
  • ENV396Y0Special Topics Field Course
  • ENV411H1Sustainability Thinking
  • ENV421Y1Community Research for Social & Environmental Change
  • ENV421H1Environmental Research last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV422H1Environmental Law
  • ENV430H1Community Research in Environment and Faith
  • ENV431H1Urban Sustainability & Ecological Technology
  • ENV440H1Professional Experience Course
  • ENV461H1The U of T Campus as a Living Lab of Sustainability
  • ENV462H1Energy and Environment: Economics, Politics, and Sustainability
  • ENV463H1Edible Campus
  • ENV464H1Communicating Climate Change
  • ENV465Y1Toronto Climate Summer School
  • JGE481H1Field Course in Environmental Geography
  • PHL273H1Environmental Ethics
  • ANT364H1Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
  • ANT368H1Nature Culture Human last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
  • ANT450H1Multispecies Cities last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
  • CHM210H1Chemistry of Environmental Change
  • CLA373H1The Environment in the Greco-Roman World
  • CRE271H1Reading the Wild
  • CSE342H1Theory and Praxis in Food Security
  • EAS479H1Ecocriticism
  • ECO313H1Environmental Economics and Policies
  • ECO314H1Energy and the Environment
  • ECO414H1Energy and Regulation
  • EEB240H1Environmental Biology: From Organisms to Ecosystems
  • ENV234H1Environmental Biology: Structure and Function of Ecosystems last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • ENV262H1The Science of Energy in the Environment
  • ENV337H1Human Interactions with the Environment
  • ENV341H1Environment and Health
  • ENV342H1Ecology of the Mind
  • ENV397Y0Costa Rica: A Living Laboratory for Sustainability in Practice
  • ENV441H1Planetary Health: Environmental Change and Human Health
  • FAH446H1Arctic Anthropocene? Image Cultures of Arctic Voyaging
  • FOR200H1Conservation of Canada's Forests
  • FOR201H1Conservation of Tropical and Subtropical Forests
  • FOR302H1Societal Values and Forest Management
  • FOR303H1Human Dimensions of Global Forests
  • FOR310H1Bioenergy from Sustainable Forest Management
  • FOR400Y1Advanced Seminar in Forest Conservation
  • FOR401H1Research Paper/Thesis in Forest Conservation
  • GGR223H1Environment, Society and Resources
  • GGR272H1Geographic Information and Mapping I
  • GGR273H1Geographic Information and Mapping II
  • GGR310H1Bioenergy from Sustainable Forest Management last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
  • GGR314H1Global Warming
  • GGR332H1Social Geographies of Climate Change
  • GGR334H1Water Resource Management
  • GGR338H1Social Transformation and Environment in the Majority World
  • GGR349H1Managing Urban Natures
  • GGR416H1Environmental Impact Assessment
  • GGR418H1Geographies of Extraction
  • GGR419H1Environmental Justice
  • GGR438H1Environment and Development
  • GGR433H1Built Environment and Health
  • HIS218H1Environmental History
  • HIS300H1Energy and Environment in Canadian History
  • HIS408H1Advanced Topics in Environmental History
  • HPS307H1History of Energy last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
  • HPS313H1Two Hundred Years of Electricity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
  • HPS316H1Environment, Technology, and Nature
  • HPS324H1Natural Science and Social Issues
  • INS250H1Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies
  • INS402H1Traditional Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
  • JIG322H1Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
  • JIG440H1Indigenous Geographies
  • PHL373H1Issues in Environmental Ethics
  • POL205H1International Relations in the Anthropocene
  • POL384H1Global Environmental Governance from the Ground Up
  • POL413H1Global Environmental Politics
  • PSY435H1Environmental Psychology
  • RLG318H1Sacred & Secular Nature in Christianity
  • RLG345H1Social Ecology and Judaism
  • RSM466H1Environmental and Social Responsibility
  • TRN312H1Sustainability Issues in Ethics, Society, and Law
  • WGS273H1Gender & Environmental (In)Justice
  • WGS442H1Toxic Worlds, Decolonial Futures
  • ARC357H1
  • ARC382H1
  • ARC386H1
  • ARC387H1

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