Program:Environmental Science
Program | Environmental Science | Faculty | Faculty of Science |
Credential | BSc | Duration | 4 Years |
Starting Month | Fall and Summer | Available for | Full-Time and Part-Time |
Program Description:
Environmental Science at York includes a compulsory Research Design & Field Study course that gets you out using the equipment of the profession. This involves a long weekend at Algonquin Park at The Frost Centre working on a project. You'll learn to use water, soil and climate monitoring equipment and geographic information systems that can be put to use immediately and directly on the job with organizations like the Meteorological Service of Canada and Environment Canada.
Our professors are conducting research on such areas as the survival of plant life in the High Arctic, the Oak Ridges Moraine and the contribution of peat lands to the Greenhouse Effect. York is home to one of Canada's most sophisticated indoor flumes to predict water flows and the structure of rivers.
Admission Requirements:
Chinese High School
BSc (Physical Sciences stream)
· Senior Secondary School Graduation Certificate
o Successful completion of the final year of Senior 3/Grade 12 level of student
· Grade 12 chemistry
· Grade 12 math
· Grade 12 physics
BSc (Life Sciences stream)
· Senior Secondary School Graduation Certificate
o Successful completion of the final year of Senior 3/Grade 12 level of student
· Grade 12 biology
· Grade 12 chemistry
· Grade 12 math
· The following course(s) are also recommended:
o Grade 12 physics
Careers:
· GIS technician
· environmental pollution assessment and control specialist
· natural resource conservationist
Link to York University Official Website
http://futurestudents.yorku.ca/program/environmental-science