Western University
AC-2: Undergraduate Programs

-        Outcome 5: Western graduates will be able to interact ethically and compassionately with others and with the natural and social world. Western graduates will be ready to act locally and imagine globally; practice perspective taking and empathy; understand the interconnectedness of the world as expressed through technology, culture, belief systems, economics, and politics; to understand and to exercise social, political and environmental responsibility both at home and abroad.

-        Outcome 6: Critical Inquiry and Creative Thinking
Outcome 7: Professionalism and Ethical Conduct

Civil and Environmental Engineering w/ Co-op: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/undergraduate/CEE-Programs.html

These options introduce Environmental Engineering students to the complex societal, environmental, political and economic issues associated with building safer communities in Canada and in the developing world. A centerpiece of the International Development option is the Summer Community Development Placement and Design Project where students have an opportunity to work for four months in developing countries, or in-need communities in Canada. 

Civil and Environmental Engineering: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/undergraduate/CEE-Programs.html

Environmental engineers minimize society’s impact on the environment, playing an integral role in designing a sustainable future. They develop solutions for a wide range of environmental problems including adapting to the effects of climate change, restoring polluted environments, and managing increased demand for clean water. Addressing today’s global, economic, and environmental challenges requires people who are able to find creative yet practical solutions. In just five years, you are prepared to be a technology-proficient leader by combining an Honors Business Administration (HBA) degree at the Ivey Business School with your Bachelor of Engineering Science (BESc) degree.

Marketing & Sustainability: https://huronu.ca/programs/management-and-organizational-studies/

The Honours Specialization and Specialization in Marketing & Sustainability will be available to second year students in the MOS program starting in September 2022. A quickly emerging field, Marketing & Sustainability will help students learn about the business of promoting, advertising and consumption behaviours while lowering harm to the environment and ethically and equitably increasing the quality of life and well-being – presently and for future generations.

One Health https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/pathol/undergraduate/bmsc/onehealth/index.htmlv

One Health is an integrated effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally and globally to attain optimal health for humans, animals and the environment. The Honours Specialization in One Health, leading to a Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMSc) degree, was created in collaboration with Western University’s Departments of Sociology and Geography in the Faculty of Social Science to enrich the learning experience of students.The module offers an innovative, interdisciplinary education and research experience for students, which focuses on the intricate link between animal health, environmental health, socioeconomic factors and human health.

Biodiversity & Conservation https://www.uwo.ca/sci/undergraduate/future_students/academic_programs/subdiscipline/biodiversity_and_conservation.html

Honors Specialization in Biodiversity and Conservation. Students in this module will gain an understanding of the forces that are shaping Earth’s ecosystem, including the impact of climate change on biological diversity. Capstone courses in biodiversity science and restoration ecology, as well as opportunities to do field research, are highlights of this module. Graduates will be prepared to pursue a diverse array of careers from basic research to public policy in a range of fields that are particularly pertinent in today’s rapidly changing world.

Ecosystem Health https://www.uwo.ca/biology/undergraduate/current-students/program-information.html

The increase in human population is placing greater demands on the capacity of our planet and is altering terrestrial and marine ecosystems on a global scale. These changes are already having serious effects on ecosystem and human health. The Major in Ecosystem Health will allow students to explore the relationships between ecosystem and human health and our global environment. Drawing upon expertise from the Departments of Biology, Geography and Political Science, students will be exposed to experimental and theoretical approaches to ecosystem health as well as to the economic factors and the policies that impact how humans interact with their environment.

Environmental Geoscience and Environmental Geoscience (Professional)

https://www.uwo.ca/sci/undergraduate/future_students/academic_programs/subdiscipline/environmental_geoscience.html

Human activities affect, and are affected by, complex interactions of Earth: the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and Earth materials. Are you interested in developing sustainable solutions to environmental problems, from local water/air/soil pollution to global climate change, or dealing with natural hazards, from local civil engineering problems to large-scale catastrophes? Then you will need the solid understanding of the dynamic relationships between natural processes on and within our planet that the Environmental Geoscience at Western provides on your path to becoming a professional geoscientist!

Environmental Science

https://www.uwo.ca/sci/undergraduate/future_students/academic_programs/modules_at_a_glance.html

Our students learn to communicate environmental science across disciplines and to apply knowledge from these different fields to develop solutions to real-world issues. Building on a solid core of science – including content in biology, chemistry, mathematics, earth sciences, geographic information science and physical geography – Environmental Science students have the added benefit of access to training in other disciplines ranging from anthropology, business, and economics, to First Nations Studies, Philosophy, political science, human geography and sociology.

Integrated Science w/ Environmental Science https://www.uwo.ca/sci/wisc/program_information.html

Graduates from this program will receive an Honors Specialization in Integrated Science with Environmental Science. Environmental Science description: Our students learn to communicate environmental science across disciplines and to apply knowledge from these different fields to develop solutions to real-world issues. Building on a solid core of science – including content in biology, chemistry, mathematics, earth sciences, geographic information science and physical geography – Environmental Science students have the added benefit of access to training in other disciplines ranging from anthropology, business, and economics, to First Nations Studies, Philosophy, political science, human geography and sociology. https://www.uwo.ca/sci/undergraduate/future_students/academic_programs/modules_at_a_glance.html

Climate Change & Society

https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/undergraduate/modules/climate_change_and_society_major.html

Climate change is an evolving universal experience. It requires knowledge of how it has evolved and its future implications for society and the environment. Climate Change & Society degrees cover topics that explore: the historical perspective of climate change, the climate emergency, vulnerabilities, inequitable and unjust global impacts, and sustainable solutions. Our degrees in Climate Change & Society guide students to understand the problem and look for ways to take action to mitigate climate change.

As an increasingly recognized issue, there are an expanding number of career paths in a broad range of sectors, including climate analysis for government and private industries, climate change advisory positions, policy making, environmental planning and health, NGOs, and many others.

Environment & Health https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/undergraduate/modules/environment_and_health.html

Environment, Development and Health is the study of linkages between environmental problems, global development, energy, food security, and health inequalities. This degree program cover topics related to:

• Identifying underlying social power structures in households and communities, and how these affect health outcomes
• Applying environment and health concepts, skills, and analysis to real-world problems
• Understanding how different biological, physical, and social environments influence health and the processes that shape them.
• Geographical and environmental health impacts and how they show up differently over space and time.

Students who study Environment, Development and Health acquire a highly marketable set of transferable skills that position them to lead in careers across numerous sectors, including environmental monitoring and management, public and community health, and planning and policy development.

Environmental Stewardship https://huronu.ca/programs/arts-social-science/governance-leadership-and-ethics/

Teaching the flagship course in the Environmental Stewardship Minor, part of the Governance Leadership and Ethics at Huron University. Using a holistic approach and focused in the most common human habitat (cities) that is responsible for the majority of the impact we have on our planet, on a scale that is the most conducive to generate action (local) since it holds the strongest social ties and deepest knowledge of our challenges.https://luispatricio.ca/home/environmental-stewardship/v

Environment & Culture https://anthropology.uwo.ca/undergraduate/anthropology_modules/index.html

Environmental Science: https://www.uwo.ca/sci/undergraduate/future_students/academic_programs/modules_at_a_glance.html

Western provides and fosters an interdisciplinary platform for teaching and research on environment and sustainability. Interdisciplinarity is the key to environmental science and the modules brings together the strengths of the Faculties of Science, Engineering, Social Science, Arts and Humanities, Information and Media Studies, the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Richard Ivey School of Business and the Faculty of Law. Our students take courses that bring them a wide variety of outlooks on processing environmental issues ranging from biodiversity loss, access to safe and clean water, energy, renewable resources, to ecosystem health, natural disasters, and sustainable business practices.

Climate Change and Society: https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/undergraduate/modules/climate_change_and_society_major.html

Climate change is an evolving universal experience. It requires knowledge of how it has evolved and its future implications for society and the environment. Climate Change & Society degrees cover topics that explore: the historical perspective of climate change, the climate emergency, vulnerabilities, inequitable and unjust global impacts, and sustainable solutions. Our degrees in Climate Change & Society guide students to understand the problem and look for ways to take action to mitigate climate change.

As an increasingly recognized issue, there are an expanding number of career paths in a broad range of sectors, including climate analysis for government and private industries, climate change advisory positions, policy making, environmental planning and health, NGOs, and many others.

Geography and Environment: https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/undergraduate/modules/geography_and_environment.html

Geography uniquely bridges the social and natural sciences to understand the world we live in and how that world is changing. This means that we offer degrees in social, natural, and environmental sciences, or a blend of these fields. Geography and Environment is a flexible degree with opportunities to develop core knowledge and skills across an array of topics, including people and place (human geography), health, development, natural environment (physical geography), and spatial data analysis.

Global Health Studies https://huronu.ca/programs/arts-social-science/centre-global-studies/global-health-studies/

The degree modules offered in Global Health Studies integrate studies in community health promotion within contexts of global development and phenomena of globalization.  This program gives focus to how the work of community health promotion is caught within contexts of global scale inequalities, particularly in terms of poverty, and global scale social interrelations that situate problems of community health within relations of power related to capitalism, resource extraction, global food economies, and impacts of global racism, sexism, coloniality, labour exploitation, and environmental degradation.  Students gain the benefit of collaborative educational experience, bringing studies from the Health Sciences, Geography, and Sociology together with courses and programming offered by the Centre for Global Studies.

Globalization Studies https://huronu.ca/programs/arts-social-science/centre-global-studies/globalization-studies/

Globalization Studies modules engage students in critical analysis of the dominant forces of globalization—mobility, integration and change—from the vantage point of human life. In the core courses in the Globalization Studies streams, students learn to distinguish prevailing theories about how globalization works, learn about the social, environmental and political entailments of capitalism, and consider alternative social, political and economic formations. Supplementary courses explore the emergence of resistance movements, localized alternatives to globalization, the impacts of mass production and consumption, the place of community in a globalized world, and more

Social Justice and Peace Studies https://www.kings.uwo.ca/future-students/programs/social-justice-and-peace-studies/

• This program has been identified as being for students who are interested in the following: Are interested in expanding their awareness of social justice issues and their understanding of the interlocking nature of poverty, violence, racism, sexism, colonization, disability, religious persecution, environmental degradation and other forms of oppression.
• Wish to develop critical and analytical skills necessary to live and work responsibly in a globally integrated world.
• Want to act as political and social critics and become agents for progressive social transformation.
• Wish to participate in volunteer experiences or internships (for course credit) in local community settings, in low-income countries or work with the King’s Centre for Social Concern.

Geology https://www.uwo.ca/earth/undergraduate/future_students/geology/index.html

Those who graduate from this program will understand the following: “An enormous range of applications from understanding the origin, development and future of our planet, exploration of natural resources, the history of life, long-range forecasting of climate change, groundwater management, soil development and management, and carbon capture, to the exploration of other planetary bodies.” This program notes the following career paths that graduates from this program can pursue: environmental geoscientist, hydrogeologist, and economic geologist. One learning outcome noted includes: “Study fossils and other evidence of ancient life to interpret Earth’s past, and to help predict future biological responses to changes in Earth’s conditions through time.”

Geology & Biology https://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/Modules.cfm?ModuleID=21089&Keywords=specialization%20in%20geology%20and%20biology&SelectedCalendar=Live&ArchiveID=

This program requires the successful completion of a course titled ‘Paleobiology and Paleoecology (Earth Sciences 2265A/B).’ The course description is as follows: “A survey of common fossils from bacteria, protists, calcareous algae, to invertebrate animals. Topics on each group of fossils include functional morphology, evolution, ancient living environments, contribution to sediment accumulation and reef-building, utility for dating and correlating rocks and for understanding long-term biodiversity change.” https://www.uwo.ca/earth/docs/courseoutlines1516/ES2265A.pdf

Geology for Professional Registration https://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/Modules.cfm?ModuleID=21641&SelectedCalendar=Live&ArchiveID=

This module is designed to meet the minimum geoscience knowledge requirements for Professional Registration as a licensed geoscientist in Canada as set by the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO) and the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists (CCPG).

Geophysics https://www.uwo.ca/earth/undergraduate/future_students/geophysics/index.html

Those who graduate from this program will understand the following: “Solutions to Societal Challenges: Address societal needs, such as mineral and energy resources, mitigation of natural hazards, and environmental monitoring and protection.” Those who graduate from this program can pursue a career in the following field: “Risk analyst/manager for public safety and sustainable development of society and environment.”

Geophysics for Professional Registration https://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/Modules.cfm?ModuleID=21643&SelectedCalendar=Live&ArchiveID=

This module is designed to meet the minimum geoscience knowledge requirements for Professional Registration as a licensed geoscientist in Canada as set by the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO) and the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists (CCPG).

Geographic Information Science https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/undergraduate/modules/giscience.html

GIScience informs decision-making about the "where" of conservation and environmental monitoring, transportation, disaster management, health and epidemiology, urban planning, business and finance, and agriculture. Students who study GIScience go on to work in public and private sectors in these and other industries.

Urban Development https://politicalscience.uwo.ca/undergraduate/program_information/index.html

Required course: Transportation Geography and GIS. The course description states: Provides a comprehensive introduction to concepts, theories, and models in the field of transportation geography. GIS and spatial analysis methods for solving transport issues and problems will be presented. Topics covered include accessibility, planning, public transit, active transport, smart mobility, impacts on land use, health, energy, environment, and social equity. https://westerncalendar.uwo.ca/Courses.cfm?CourseAcadCalendarID=MAIN_029764_1&SelectedCalendar=Live&ArchiveID=