Carleton University
AC-3: Undergraduate Program

This program provides analytical and hands-on skills for designing, building, operating and enhancing sustainable energy systems that combine energy generation, distribution and utilization in an environmentally responsible and economically beneficial manner. Two streams are offered: Smart Technologies for Power Generation and Distribution, and Efficient Energy Generation and Conversion.

Carleton’s program in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering teaches students to approach the design and retrofit of new and existing buildings with sustainability as the primary objective, which includes considering the life cycle costs and impacts of the materials selected, energy needs and consumption, and the effective reuse and adaptation of existing structures. Students in the program, working closely with Carleton’s architecture students, have the option of following a Structural stream or an Environmental stream after their second year.

As a student in the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management program (BPAPM), you examine a wide variety of issues facing society today, as well as institutional challenges, and develop the necessary skills and knowledge to address them.

Policy Stream in Environmental & Sustainable Energy Policy: Local, regional, national and international environmental and energy policies, protection of environments and integrity of air, water, land, flora and fauna, managing energy demands and sustainable alternative sources.

A high level of industrialization and consumption, coupled with population growth, has created problems that past societies did not have to worry about. These have become the crucial problems of our generation.

To maintain reasonable material standards and quality of the environment on our crowded planet, we will have to continue to rely on technology. For this we will continue to need specialists in all fields of endeavor. However, the development of technology will no longer be governed solely by technical feasibility and economic gain, but also by desirability in terms of human and environmental values.

The TSE courses reflect the need to modernize education by tailoring it to our future needs. Taking one or more TSE courses makes it possible for you to "acquire an additional dimension of understanding, additional vision, and the sense of responsibility for the survival and importance of the whole that distinguishes the manager from the subordinate, and the citizen from the subject"

The minor in Environmental and Climate Humanities (EACH) responds to the urgency of our current moment. This minor allows students to explore environmental issues and climate change through a humanities and social sciences lens. It provides students with a strong grounding in interdisciplinary methodologies and experiential, collaborative pedagogies and equips them — wisely, justly, and creatively — to meet the social, political, economic and cultural challenges posed by environmental stresses and climate change.

Available also as a Minor, The Environmental Studies (ENST) program prepares students to be informed thinkers and skilled problem-solvers contributing to the resolution of the environmental challenges critical to our future. Through a combination of required courses and electives, students gain a solid foundation in environmental studies, while also being able to focus on specific environmental issues, such as: resource conservation, environmental justice, urban sustainability, or environmental policy. This interdisciplinary program allows students to select from a range of courses in the social and natural sciences, including anthropology, biology, earth sciences, economics, geography, geomatics, history, law, philosophy, political science and sociology.