For graduates of the two-year adventure tourism diploma program
Students who have graduated from the two-year Adventure Tourism Diploma Program offered by the College of the North Atlantic, Corner Brook campus, or who are in their final semester of this program, can apply for entry with advanced standing into the Environmental Studies Degree Program offered by Sir Wilfred Grenfell College.
Students who are entering the Environmental Studies Program will be given unspecified credits for a total of 60 credit hours towards the 120 credit-hour degree program.
Of the 60 credit hours, students taking the Outdoor Environmental Pursuits Concentration will receive credit for EVST 2210, EVST 2220, EVST 3210, HKR 3555, and HKR 4555 as well as 18 unspecified credit hours towards the concentration requirements.
Of the 60 credit hours, students taking the Environmental Perspectives Concentration will receive 21 unspecified credit hours towards the concentration requirements.
Students will receive three credit hours for unspecified writing courses, six unspecified credit hours towards the Group B and six credit hours towards Group C breadth of knowledge requirement. The remaining credit hours will be deemed to be unspecified electives.
In addition to the general requirements for the SWGC B.A. degree, students will need to complete the following requirements for the Environmental Studies major:
Environmental Studies Core
- Economics 2010 (Introduction to Microeconomics)
- Environmental Studies 2000 (Introduction to Mapping, Remote Sensing, and
Geographical Information Systems)
- Environmental Studies 3000 (Issues in Environmental Economics)
- Environmental Studies 3001 (Environmental and Resource Management)
- Environmental Studies 4010 (Seminar in Environmental Studies)
- Environmental Studies 4950 (Independent Research Project)
- Geography 2220 (Research Design and Quantitative Methods)
- Philosophy 2561 (Environmental Ethics)
Additional Requirements Based on Concentration
For students taking the Outdoor Environmental Pursuits Concentration:
15 credit hours of the following courses of which at least 9 credit hours must be at the 3000 or 4000 level
- Anthropology 3083 (Cultural Crises and the Environment)
- Biology 1001 and 1002 (Principles of Biology)
- Biology 2041 (Modern Biology and Human Society)
- Biology 2600 (Principles of Ecology)
- Chemistry 1001 (General Chemistry II)
- Chemistry 1200 (General Chemistry I)
- Earth Sciences 1000 (Earth Systems)
- Earth Sciences 1002 (Concepts and Methods in Earth Sciences)
- Environmental Science 2261 (Survey of Environmental Chemistry)
- Environmental Science 2360 (Geological Hazards and Natural Disasters)
- Environmental Science 2370 (Global Environmental Change)
- Environmental Studies 3010-3029. (Special Topics in Environmental Studies)
- Environmental Studies 4000 (Environmental Impact Assessment)
- Folklore 2600 (Regional Folklore)
- Forestry 1010 and 1011 (Introduction to Forestry)
- Geography 1001 (Introduction to Geography II)
- Geography 2102 (Physical Geography)
- Geography 3325 (Natural Resources)
- Political Science 3731 (Environmental Policy)
- Religious Studies 3880 (Spirituality and the Earth)
For students taking the Environmental Perspectives Concentration:
27 credit hours of the following courses of which 18 must be at the 3000 or 4000 level:
- Anthropology 3080 (Third World)
- Anthropology 3083 (Cultural Crises and the Environment)
- Biology 1001 and 1002 (Principles of Biology)
- Biology 2041 (Modern Biology and Human Society II)
- Biology 2600 (Principles of Ecology)
- Chemistry 1001 (General Chemistry II)
- Chemistry 1200 (General Chemistry I)
- Earth Sciences 1000 (Earth Systems)
- Earth Sciences 1002 (Concepts and Methods in Earth Sciences)
- Environmental Science 2261 (Survey of Environmental Chemistry)
- Environmental Science 2360 (Geological Hazards and Natural Disasters)
- Environmental Science 2370 (Global Environmental Change)
- Environmental Science 2371 (Oceanography)
- Environmental Studies 3010-3029. (Special Topics in Environmental Studies)
- Environmental Studies 4000 (Environmental Impact Assessment)
- Folklore 2401 (Folklife Studies)
- Folklore 2600 (Regional Folklore)
- Forestry 1010 and 1011 (Introduction to Forestry)
- Geography 1001 (Introduction to Geography II)
- Geography 2001 (Cultural Geography)
- Geography 2102 (Physical Geography)
- Geography 2302 (Economic Geography)
- Geography 3325 (Natural Resources)
- Political Science 3550 (Politics and the Environment)
- Political Science 3731 (Environmental Policy)
- Religious Studies 3880 (Spirituality and the Earth)
- Sociology 2120 (Technology and Society)
Note: The required Philosophy 2561 and the optional Religious Studies 3550 can be used to fulfill the Group A breadth of knowledge requirement. The required Environmental Studies core courses will fulfill the Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis requirement.