BSH.EGEO - Environmental Geoscience - BSc Honours

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Geoscientists play a crucial role in the sustainable development of Earth resources that individuals, industries, and countries, such as Canada, rely upon every day. Students in Trent’s Environmental Geoscience program study the Earth’s geologic and natural systems to understand the environment and the impacts of human activities. With experiential learning at its core, this professionally accredited program equips students with the skills needed to tackle pressing environmental challenges from climate change to contaminated groundwater to geohazards, leading them to exciting careers as geoscientists.

INFORMATION & ADDITIONAL NOTES

• Trent’s Environmental Geoscience program meets the knowledge requirements of Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO) in the environmental geoscience stream. Courses that are used to meet these requirements have been approved by PGO. In the case of a student receiving a waiver for a required course, it is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the PGO knowledge requirements are being met. Furthermore, it is the applicant who must demonstrate to the PGO that they meet each individual knowledge requirement.

• For information on individual courses see Calendar entries for Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental & Resource Science/Studies, Geography, Mathematics & Statistics, and Physics & Astronomy.

• There may be a small additional fee for field trips in certain courses.

• The Accelerated Master’s program in Environmental & Life Sciences allows students to obtain a research-based MSc within a shorter timeframe. See www.trentu.ca/els/experience/msc-program/accelerated-masters-program for details.