ObjectivesIn this science-based, two-year program you’ll gain academic expertise combined with hands-on laboratory and field skills to prepare you for immediate work. Environmental Technologists work within assessment teams, collecting, collating and presenting information that will help decision-makers understand how their decisions will affect the Earth and its inhabitants. The program also provides up to two years of transfer credit, allowing you to transfer to a university and directly into third year studies to complete a degree in biology, geography or environmental studies. It contains 13 courses (minimum) which have academic transfer to most universities. The Environmental Technology program has block transfer to the BSc in Environmental Science program at Royal Roads University.
Academic titleDiploma in Environmental Technology
Course descriptionAcademic Term 1 (Fall) Credits
BIOL 124 Evolution and Diversity 4.0
CHEM 120 College Chemistry 1 4.0
COMP 158E Computing for Environmental 3.0
ENGL 150 English Composition 3.0
ENVR 110 Environmental Seminar 1 1.0
GEOG 100 Ecosystems & Human Activity 3.0 Total Credits
18.0
Academic Term 2 (Winter) Credits
BIOL 228 Ecology 4.0
ENVR 103 Environmental Microbiology 2.0
ENVR 107 Environmental Geography 3.0
ENVR 251 Technical Communication 3.0
GEOG 210 Map & Air Photo Interpretation 4.0
MATH 216 Applied Statistics 4.0 Total Credits
20.0
Academic Term 3 (Spring) Credits
ENVR 200 Safety in the Environment 1.5
ENVR 202 Geographic Field Techniques 0.5
ENVR 203 Aquatic Monitoring Techniques 2.0
ENVR 204 Environmental Field Trips 0.5
ENVR 205 Soils 0.5
ENVR 206A Environmental Horticulture 1.5
ENVR 218 Environmental Field Camp 2.0 Total Credits
8.5
Academic Term 4 (Fall) Credits
ENVR 206B Environmental Biotechnology 2.0
ENVR 207 Applied Geomorphology 3.0
ENVR 210 Aquatic Environments 3.0
ENVR 229 Quantitative Assessment 4.0
GEOG 214 Digital Geomatics 4.0
GEOG 220 Natural Resource Systems 3.0 Total Credits
19.0
Academic Term 5 (Winter) Credits
CHEM 121 College Chemistry 2 4.0
ENVR 140 Fundamentals of GIS 3.0
ENVR 222 Urban & Regional Environments 3.0
ENVR 242 Vertebrate Diversity & Ecology 4.0
GEOS 100 Physical Geology 4.0 Total Credits
18.0
Academic Term 6 (Fall or Winter) Credits
CHEM 253 Environmental Chemistry 4.0
ENVR 208A Research Project Design 1.0
ENVR 240 Environmental GIS Applications 3.0
ENVR 244 Invertebrate Diversity/Ecology 3.0
ENVR 246 Plant Diversity & Ecology 4.0
MATH 108 Applied Calculus 4.0 Total Credits
19.0
Academic Term 7 (Spring) Credits
ENVR 208B Sustainability Project 5.0
ENVR 209 Waste Management Remediation 3.0 Total Credits
8.0
Co-op Internship Option Credits
COOP WEP Workplace Education Prep 0.0
BUS 101 Co-operative Work Experience 1 6.0
AND/OR
BUS 201 Co-operative Work Experience 2 6.0 Total Credits
6.0-12.0