Climate Action

ADMN 436AM - Natural Resource Development from an Indigenous Perspective

This introductory course will provide students with an understanding of issues concerned with development of natural resources. This survey course examines a range of topics that introduce students to many of the challenges and opportunities within natural resource sectors, for example mining and the petroleum and natural gas industries.

ANTH 242AG - Community Museums and Engagement for Sustainability

Communities around the globe strive for cultural, economic and ecological sustainability. Many follow an ecomuseum model where they understand heritage to be multifaceted and engage with it in dynamic ways. This course will study the ecomuseum movement and participate in the development of an emerging ecomuseum in central Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department head.***
*Note Students may receive credit for one of ANTH 242AG,ANTH 320AL, or IDS 290AB.*

ANTH 242AO - Environmental Anthropology

Environmental anthropology is concerned with diverse ways of knowing our surroundings, including Indigenous perspectives. This course explores land-based ethics and wellbeing, as well as ways of learning with, through, and in landscapes. Students discover anthropological understandings of ecology of life, sentient ecology, architecture, design thinking, and language in landscapes.
***Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or completion of 12 credit hours or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 320AJ - Posthumanist Anthropology

The course will engage with non-anthropocentric human and social sciences, redefining the social as a collective of humans and non-humans, and including animals, plants, and other subjects. The course will address such topics as agency, animism, totemism, multispecism, ethics, and the dignity of the non-human.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***

ANTH 320AL - Advanced Topics in Community Museums

Communities around the globe strive for cultural, economic and ecological sustainability. In many places, local community museums have become catalysts in this endeavour. This course provides a critical perspective on community museum with a focus on the ecomuseum movement in Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours including at least 3 credit hours in ANTH, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ANTH 320AL, ANTH 242AG, or IDS 290AB.*

ART 390AN - Landscape and Ecology in 2D Art

This class focuses on contemporary approaches to Landscape pertaining to concepts of ecology, environment, and place. Students have the choice to work with either painting or drawing media, or both.
***Prerequisites: ART 230 or ART 240 or Permission of the Instructor.***

ART 490AK - Indigenous Land/Art Practices

This course will explore Indigenous land based artistic and curatorial practice from theoretical, critical and experiential perspectives. It will include land and water engagement, gathering and working with Indigenous materials, skill-based workshops, site interventions and performances. The course will include significant time on the land.
***ARTH 100 or INAH 100 and INDG 100 or permission of Instructor***

ART 820AR - Art and Climate Change

This course will focus on the material and conceptual development of artworks exploring issues of climate change and environmental activism.

AWEI 300AY - Arts EnviroCollective Internship

This internship is for Geography and Environmental Studies students. Students will be matched with a local environmental non-profit organization to plan and execute a special event around the theme of moving towards net zero. A reflective paper on the students experience will be required. **Permission by the AWEI Selection Committee is required to register.**
*Note: Students must fill out the Worker's Compensation Agreement form prior to going on Internship.*

BIOL 356 - Ecosystems Since Glaciation

Long-term ecosystem structure and dynamics provide the context for present day global change. This course examines ecosystem dynamics in the last 10,000 years, focusing on the last few centuries. Paleoecological methods and results of reconstructing such phenomena as acid rain, range changes, island biogeographies, and fire histories will be studied.
***Prerequisites: BIOL 275***

BIOL 456 - Global Biogeochemistry

The course will present an in-depth examination of elemental cycles within the context of global change. Topics will include the biogeochemical properties of water, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, and some contaminants and the ways in which anthropogenic activities have altered the behaviour and movement of these elements.
***Prerequisite: CHEM 104 and BIOL 275***

BIOL 490BX - Independent Research project - Biogeochemistry

This research-based course provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to do guided study in an area of biogeochemistry.
**Permission of the instructor is required to register**

BIOL 880AB - Adv Quat Ecol & Palynology

A detailed consideration of techniques (palynology, dendrochronology, paleolimnology, dating, stable isotopes) used to reconstruct Quaternary environments, and an analysis of their application to the construction of models to and forecast the ecological effects of climate change. Particular emphasis will be on the reconstruction of both species and community dynamics.

EC&I 840 - Seminar Topics in Science and Environmental Education

Topics may include research, curriculum development, and in-service practice in science and environmental education, and will be examined in a seminar setting.

EC&I 871AN - Sustainability & Mobility: Strategies, Methods, & Engaged Practices

This interdisciplinary course is designed for graduate students interested in K-12 arts education and/or for students interested in theories and ideas for engaging as activists in public art events addressing social/environmental concerns.

EC&I 871AP - Curriculum in the Anthropocene

This is an interdisciplinary course designed for graduate students interested in contemporary encounters and theories addressing ecological concerns and activist response through art events and everyday creative practice using Mother Earth as instructive co-designer.

EC&I 871AQ - Land-Based Education and Language Pedagogy

This course will explore how land-based education can inform language pedagogy. This is a language immersion camp which will foster embodied knowing and the holistic aspect of language. Students will work with Elders and Indigenous knowledge keepers to deepen their understanding of language pedagogy and to increase their language fluency.

EC&I 871AS - Concepts of Indigenous Spirituality in Education

This course covers indigenous understandings of spirituality in education by exploring the meaning of spirituality from an indigenous world view through language, story, art and relationship to land.
Note: A portion of this course will be “on the land” and will involve ceremony. Travel will be required.

EC&I 871AX - Creating School Climates of Gender Justice

Recognizing that sexism, heterosexism and cissexism negatively impact and limit all members of school communities, this course explores the work of changing school climates to create greater inclusion and welcome. While individual accommodations continue to matter, the focuses on the systemic changes needed to impact the overall school climate.

EC&I 890BU - Applications of Discourse Analysis in Environmental Education Research

This course examines applications of discourse analysis in environmental education research grounded in feminist poststructuralist socio-ecological and critial perspectives as world view.

ECON 273 - Environmental Economics

A study of contemporary environmental issues using economics. What are the economic costs and benefits of pollution? How do emission standards, environmental taxes, and tradable permits work in reducing pollution? What are the cost-effective ways to address environmental challenges like climate change?
***Prerequisite: 15 credit hours or ECON 100.***

ECON 274 - Ecological Economics

A study of the economy as a system embedded within earth systems. The course explores questions like: What are the key energy and material flows in the economy? Can economic activity be decoupled from environmental impact? How should we define and achieve sustainability?
***Prerequisite: ECON 100 or 15 credit Hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ECON 274 or ECON 296AH.*

ECON 275 - Energy Economics

A study of basic economic concepts underlying energy production and consumption. Topics include: the structure of the energy sector including ownership structures and regulation; conventional and emerging energy resources; environmental impacts, economic development, and geopolitics surrounding energy production and consumption.
***Prerequisite: ECON 100 or 15 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ECON 275 or ECON 296AL.*

ECON 372 - Natural Resource Management on the Prairies

Problems in the prairie oil/gas, timber, uranium, potash, power generation and water management sectors; preservation of prairie ecosystems; application of theory to determine how best to deal with these problems.
***Prerequisite: ECON 201***

ENER 491 - Carbon Capture Utilization and Geo Sequestration

This course will cover global climate change impacts, sources of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the benefits and applications of carbon capture technologies for the petroleum industry, sequestration in oil and gas reservoirs and deep saline aquifers. Additionally, CCS policies and regulatory development will be explored.
***Prerequisite: ENER 301 and ENIN 355.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENPE 491 or ENER 491.*

ENEV 804 - Prairie Water Quality, Treatment Design and Quantity

This course investigates the uniqueness of Prairie water quality challenges in treatment design and allocation, as well as threats to water quantity and application. Includes discussion of dissolved nutrients, pesticides, PPCPs, and other water quality and treatment challenges. Discussion of impacts of economic growth, climate change, water allocation law are included around water quantity threats and opportunities. Planning and management through source water protection, agricultural evaluations, and others from the Prairie perspective.

ENEV 862 - Environmental Decision Making

Optimization modelling for environmental management systems. Linear programming, separable and integer programming, transportation models, dynamic programming, and their application to a variety of environmental engineering problems.

ENEV 863 - Air Quality Management

Advanced topics in air pollution impact assessment, mechanisms related to air pollution problems, mitigation and adapation of air pollution effects through a number of engineering measures, design of air pollution control facilities, air quality management and pollution control planning, and air quality prediction techniques.

ENEV 864 - Petroleum Waste Management

Generation of petroleum wastes and their impacts, treatment and disposal of petroleum wastes in exploration, production, and processing processes, remediation of petroleum contaminated sites, regulation related to petroleum wastes, and modeling for petroleum waste managment systems.

ENEV 865 - Hazardous Waste Management and Site Remediation

Principles of hazardous waste management. Subsurface contamination and contaminant migration. Risk-based site investigation and assessment. Discussion on different types of in-situ and ex-situ remediation technologies, including pump and treat, soil vapor extraction, air sparging, bioremediation, permeable reactive barriers, and other innovative technologies.

ENEV 866 - Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Current and novel industrial wastewater management strategies; treatment process design theory and approaches; and industrial water/wastewater quantity and quality requirement.

ENEV 886DC - Multivariate Cluster and Discriminant Analysis for Environmental Planning

A series of cluster analysis (e.g., stepwise cluster analysis) and discriminant analysis (e.g., Bayesian discriminant analysis) methods will be included in this graduated level directed reading course. Combined multivariate cluster and discriminant analysis methods for climate-change adaptation and environmental management planning will be further introduced in this course.

ENEV 886DE - Optimization-Based Multicriteria Environmental Decision

A series of econometrics analysis (e.g., computable general equilibrium model) and environmental system analysis (e.g., nondeterministic optimization programming) methods will be involved in this graduated level directed reading course. The optimization-based computable general equilibrium approach for socio-economic impact analyses under climate change will be introduced in this course.

ENEV 886DF - Urban Transportation Networks

Basic concepts in minimization problems; equilibrium analysis of transportation systems; formulations of assignment problems; review of optimization algorithms; solving for user equilibrium; variable travel demand; trip distribution and traffic assignment models.

ENEV 886DK - Sustainable Energy Storage Systems

Principles of energy storage, system design, techno-economic and environmental analysis, applications of energy storage systems for net zero emissions.

ENGL 480AI - Literary & Environmental Ethics: Ecocriticism, Ecology, Ecotechnics

This course examines two Canadian novels and three philosophers to ask, What is an environmental ethics? How does nature relate to the concept of environment, world, or creation? We investigate the concept of nature, guided by economic, technological, scientific, or religious thinking, to rethink humanity's dominion over plants and animals.
***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or the completion of 48 credit hours.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 480AI or ENGL 817AI.*
*Note: This course is intended for ENGL Honours students. Students who are not ENGL Honours students require permission of the Department Head to register.*

ENSE 885BF - Blockchain for Carbon Credits

This course focuses on investigating: (i) how the blockchain can be used for recording of carbon credits, and (ii) how Artificial Intelligence can be used for verifying projects, analyzing footprints, and optimizing sustainability. It explores different carbon offset project types, verification methods and market dynamics.

ENVS 100 - Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Science

This course will introduce students to the conceptual framework of the environment by examining its physical, biological, and social components with Indigenous perspectives. General topics will include: ecological principles and the responses of ecosystems to disturbance, population growth, biodiversity and conservation, and environmental sustainability.

ENVS 200 - Indigenous Environmental Law

This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of environmental law, regulation and policy at the provincial and federal levels. Students will also be introduced to land use and environmental protection, natural resource development, rights associated with hunting, fishing and gathering, and approaches to Indigenous lands and resources.
***Prerequisite: 15 credit hours***

EPSY 890AJ - Mindfulness and its Implications for Sustainability

The analysis of Mindfulness Theory and current psychological interpretations linked to sustainability.

ESCI 302 - Environmental Education

Theory and practice in environmental education, including the history and philosophy of environmental education, course design (K-12), and issues investigation.

FILM 480BL - Afrofuturism

This course will examine Afrofuturism in films from around the world. Focussing on themes and concerns of the African diaspora through a technoculture and science fiction lens, the course will explore a range of media artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afrodiasporic experiences.

GES 297AB - Environment and Society

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the relationship between society and the natural environment. The course examines the environmental impact of the actions of individuals, businesses and governments. Specific topics might include climate change, environmental degradation, sustainability and environmental movements and conflicts.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or GES 120 or GES 121 or permission of department head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GES 297AB or SOC 230.*

GES 325 - Biogeography

An examination of the geographic distributions of plants and animals and the historical, geologic, and contemporary processes underlying those distributions. The course will include study of the influence of climate change, continental drift, and human activity on spatial distribution of flora/fauna.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours including GES 121, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 325 and GEOG 325.*

GES 329 - Soil Geography

Introduction to the properties and classification of soil. The geography of soil at local, regional, and global scales. Relationship of soil to geomorphology, climate, water, vegetation, and environmental change.
***Prerequisite: 30 credit hours including GES 121 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 329, GEOG 329 or GEOL 329.*

GES 372 - Climate Change Policy

This course will explore questions such as: What policy options are available to address climate change? What climate change policies have been introduced in Canada and around the world? How do we evaluate whether climate change policy has succeeded?
***Prerequisite: GES 200.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of GES 372, ECON 373, ECON 396AW, GEOG 396AM, and GES 396AM.*

GES 421 - Topics in Climatology and Meteorology

Weather and human activities. Response to weather hazards: hurricanes, thunderstorms, droughts. World climate regions. Climate change. Human impact of weather, weather forecasting and climatological information. Anthropogenic effects on the atmosphere.
***Prerequisite: GES 321 or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 421 and GEOG 421.*

GES 431 - Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

This course focuses on the impacts of climate change on biophysical and and social systems, and the adjustments to policies and practices that will be required to minimize the negative impacts. It is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in this emerging and important field of study.
***Prerequisite: GES 120 and GES 121.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for only one of GES 431, GEOG 431, GEOG 831, or GEOG 491AB.*

GES 491AD - Advanced Hydrology

A survey of advanced topics in hydrology, the study of water, with a specific focus on the surface water balance of the prairies and the impacts of climate change and variability.
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**
*Note: Students may only receive credit for one of GES 491AD and GEOG 491AD.*

IDS 290AB - Ecomuseums: Community Engagement for Sustainability

An ecomuseum is constructed when a community comes together to explore, interpret and preserve its heritage in a multifaceted and dynamic way, to promote sustainable development. Ecomuseums exist throughout the world, and this course will study and participate in the development of an emerging ecomuseum in central Saskatchewan.
***Prerequisite: Completion of 15 credit hours, or permission of the Department Head.***
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of IDS 290AB or NSLI 390AD.*

MAP 200AJ - Future Threads: The Fashion Industry in Response to Climate Correction

The Fashion Industry is cited as being one of the foremost polluters on Earth. This class will examine how the industry is adjusting to the climate crisis. The class will examine the place of fast fashion in popular culture and question if consumers are able to exchange fast for sustainable? It asks can the fashion industry adjust to the present and future demands for a culture of sustainable dressing?
***Prerequisite: 18 credit hours***

MAP 300AQ - Engaging Climate Change: Creativity, Community, Intervention

This multidisciplinary course explores climate change and environmental concerns, with a focus on resilience, community, Indigenous perspectives, science, artist engagements, local/global projects, and thinking outside the box in the face of change. Assignments will be applied and/or artistic explorations of course themes. Students from all university disciplines are welcome.
***Prerequisite: 60 credit hours or permission of instructor.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MAP 300AQ and MAP 400AD.*

MAP 400AD - Engaging Climate Change: Creativity, Community, Intervention

This multidisciplinary course explores climate change and environmental concerns, with a focus on resilience, community, Indigenous perspectives, science, artist engagements, local/global projects, and thinking outside the box in the face of change. Assignments will be applied and/or artistic explorations of course themes. Students from all university disciplines are welcome.
***Prerequisite: 60 credit hours or permission of instructor.***
*Note: Students cannot receive credit for both MAP 300AQ and MAP 400AD.*

MAP 890BP - Engaging Climate Change: Creativity, Community, Intervention

This multidisciplinary course explores climate change and environmental concerns, with a focus on resilience, community, Indigenous worldviews, science, artist engagements, local/global projects, and thinking outside the box in the face of change. Assignments will be applied and/or artistic explorations of course themes. Students from all university disciplines are welcome.

NORD 847 - Circumpolar Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This course examines the manner in which scientific and technological innovation, or the commercialization of technology-base products and services, is shaping the circumpolar world. Nations around the world have identified innovation as being the cornerstone of economic competitiveness and critical to everything from job creation to environmental sustainability.

PHIL 880AY - Environmental Ethics and Public Policy

An examination of the ways in which environmental ethics can be relevant to public policy decision makers. Specific areas for consideration include: economics, cost-benefit analysis, and environmental policy; obligations to future generations and sustainability; preserving wilderness and biodiversity; corporate responsibility; global climate change. (No background in environmental philosophy will be assumed.)
**Permission of the Department Head is required to register.**
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of PHIL 880AY or GSPP 835AN.*

PSYC 890BQ - Environmental Psychology

Climate change and biodiversity loss may be the central problems of our era, and are central factors underlying many global human problems. Human behaviour is both a cause and an important solution to these issues, so this course will examine how psychological knowledge can contribute to solving environmental problems.

SOC 230 - Environment and Society

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on the relationship between society and the natural environment. The course examines the environmental impact of the actions of individuals, businesses and governments. Specific topics might include climate change, environmental degradation, sustainability and environmental movements and conflicts.
***Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credit hours or SOC 100 or permission of department head.***
*Note: SOC 100 is required for all majors in Sociology.*
*Note: Students may receive credit for one of SOC 230 or GES 297AB.*

SOC 890AR - Critical Perspectives on the Environment in the Global South

This course covers critical readings related to the sociology and political economy of environmental issues in the Global South, including how these problems are a product of contemporary development processes. Readings will include social theory and history of the environment, as well as cover particular problems, such as those related to climate change, agriculture, water, natural resources, land rights and conflicts, and oil.

SOST 890AJ - Social Dimensions of Climate Change

This course examines the social dimensions of climate change vulnerability and adaptation from a sociological perspective. Key topics include: conceptual frameworks for understanding social dimensions of climate change; social differentiation (e.g., gender, race, class, geopolitical location) and climate vulnerability; vulnerability assessment methods; and policies for sustainable adaptation.

SOST 890BD - Indigenous Community Engagement for Climate Change

This course explores the intersection of climate change and Indigenous knowledge, policies, and community engagement strategies. It involves critical analysis of case studies, current policies, and active engagement practices. The course also addresses the importance of respecting Indigenous knowledge and traditions in creating effective climate action plans.

THAC 360AO - Contemporary Scene Study: Climate Change Theatre

Theatre for change. This class will explore new plays from around the world dealing with Climate Change and Activism. Students will work on scenes and short plays dealing with Climate Change and lay the groundwork for creating their own new works on the subject. The class will also research artistic activism and its role in society.
***Prerequisite: THAC 260 or permission of the instructor.***