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Program Requirements
Research Project (12 credits)
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BREE 671 Project 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : Supervised research project.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Prasher, Shiv (Fall) Prasher, Shiv (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 671 or ABEN 671D1/D2.
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BREE 672 Project 2 (6 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : Supervised research project.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012
Instructors: Prasher, Shiv (Fall) Prasher, Shiv (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 672 or ABEN 672D1/D2.
Required Courses (8 credits)
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BIOL 640 Tropical Biology and Conservation (3 credits)
Overview
Biology (Sci) : Long-term research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute will be organized and synthesized to examine historical assembly and ecological maintenance of tropical communities. This synthesis will draw on phylogenetic concepts for historical insight and will examine the probable resilience of these communities to global change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Basset, Yves (Fall)
- Restriction: students enrolled in Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor
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BREE 651 Departmental Seminar M.Sc. 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : To give seminars and participate in discussions.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Adamchuk, Viacheslav (Fall) Lefsrud, Mark (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 651.
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BREE 652 Departmental Seminar M.Sc. 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : To give seminars and participate in discussions.
Terms: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Instructors: Adamchuk, Viacheslav (Fall) Lefsrud, Mark (Winter) Orsat, Valerie (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ABEN 652.
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ENVR 610 Foundations of Environmental Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Analysis of current environmental policies to reveal implicit and explicit assumptions regarding scientific methods, hypothesis testing, subject/object, causality, certainty, deities, health, development, North-South concerns for resources, commons, national sovereignty, equity. Discussion of implications of such assumptions for building future environmental policies.
Terms: Fall 2011
Instructors: Brown, Peter Gilbert; Naylor, Robin Thomas; Goldberg, Mark (Fall)
Restriction: Enrolment in the Graduate Environment Option or enrolment in the Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor.
Note: Participation in the MSE-Panama Symposium presentation in Montreal is required.
Complementary Courses (25 credits)
3 credits (one elective course), at the 500 level or higher, on environmental issues to be chosen in consultation with and approved by the student's supervisor and the Neotropical Environment Options Director.
22 additional credits of 500-, 600-, or 700-level courses chosen in consultation with the academic adviser.
Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences—2011-2012 (last updated Aug. 18, 2011) (disclaimer)