Environmental Science

Program Overview & Highlights

Honours 4-Year Program
Thesis Available
BSc

Food and water security for all North Americans depends on the Great Lakes, and environmental scientists play a critical role in their management and sustainability. Here, at the heart of the Great Lakes, we provide our students with comprehensive and balanced training in the physical and living environment – atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere. Through a systems-based approach, you will learn and apply a diversity of scientific tools and skills to understand the structure, function and health of this globally important freshwater resource. Our students have the skills employers are looking for!

Environmental Science is a rigorous, comprehensive, applied science program that provides unparalleled access to high-impact lecture, laboratory, and field learning experiences

Hands-on experience is key in our program. Labs starting in 1st year and field work starting in 2nd year.

Learn More About Our Program

1:20

faculty to student ratio - the best in Ontario and one of the best in Canada

>70%

of Science students will participate in undergraduate research

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Biology/SBI4U, English/ENG4U
Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCV4U, Physics/SPH4U
Minimum Average: 70% (70% average in all required science and math courses)
Mean Average: 88%

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

Course Requirements: Grade 12 Advanced Functions, Grade 12 Chemistry, Grade 12 Biology. Grade 12 English.
Recommended: Grade 12 Calculus & Vectors, Grade 12 Physics
Minimum Average: 70% (70% average in all science and math courses)
Mean Average: 88%

Career Tracks

Environmental scientist
GIS technician
sustainability specialist
hydrologist
Research scientist

Related Programs

Biological Sciences

Biomedical Sciences

Environmental Studies

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

All students using this page are strongly encouraged to attend Head Start or make an appointment with an academic advisor.
Email: environment@uwindsor.ca for direction to an appropriate academic advisor.
Open Choice means any course that fulfils the degree requirements. Many students choose to select a Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) course in the first year.

Required Course Notes

CHEM 1100^*
MATH 1760 or MATH 1720¹
ESCI 1100
Open choice or ESCI 1141^*²
Open choice or BIOL 1101^*³

^* Course with lab

¹ Students who have credit for MCV4U Calculus and Vectors may register in MATH 1720; those who do not have MCV4U should register in MATH 1760.

² Students interested in the new GIS certificate should take ESCI 1141, which is a requirement for the certificate.

³ BIOL 1101 is recommended.

Required Courses

BIOL 1101: Cell Biology

CHEM 1100: General Chemistry I

MATH 1760: Functions and Differential Calculus

This course will cover a review of functions, trigonometric functions and identities, transcendental functions, inverse trigonometric functions, introduction to limits, continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U), but have not taken Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1720. The course is equivalent to MATH-1720 for all prerequisite purposes. (Prerequisite: Ontario Grade 12Advanced Functions (MHF4U).) (Antirequisite: MATH-1720.) (4 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

MATH 1720: Differential Calculus

This course will cover trigonometric functions and identities, inverse trigonometric functions, limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who do not have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1760. (Prerequisites: Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) or MATH-1780.) (Antirequisite: MATH-1760.) (3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

ESCI 1100: Environmental Systems – An Introduction to Environmental Science

ESCI 1141: Cartography and Digital Mapping

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