Guidelines
Approved Program Electives (APE) must be selected according to the following directions:
- The total 100 and 200 level APEs cannot be greater than 2 courses(*6).
- Any courses on this list that have already been taken/granted credit for as required program courses cannot be used as an APE.
- Students must have any prerequisites listed in the calendar before taking a course; credit may be denied for courses without the appropriate prerequisites.
- After minimum requirements are met in each category, remaining APE courses can be taken from any category listed below.
- Students may take REN R 465 only once.
- Always refer to Bear Tracks for the most up to date course information.
Advanced Ecology
(Minimum 1 Course)
BIOL 331 - Population Ecology
BIOL 332 - Community Ecology
BIOL 333 - Wetland Ecology and Management
BIOL 366 - Northern Ecology
BIOL 471 - Landscape Ecology
BOT 332 - Plant Ecology
REN R 322 - Forest Ecosystems
REN R 366 - Restoration Ecology
Range, Pasture and Wildland Management
(Minimum 2 Courses)
BIOL 367 - Conservation Biology
BIOL 384 - Global Change and Ecosystems
ENCS 407 - Rangeland Plant Communities of North America
PL SC 324 - Crop Ecophysiology
PL SC 495 - Integrated Crop Protection
PL SC 499 - Cropping Systems
REN R 340 - Introduction to Fire Science and Management
REN R 364 - Principles of Managing Natural Diversity
REN R 414 - Agroforestry Systems
REN R 462 - Protected Areas Planning and Management
REN R 476 - Advanced Fisheries and Wildlife Management
Soils, Remote Sensing and GIS
(Minimum 1 Course)
EAS 221 - Introduction to Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing
REN R 314 - Forest Soils
REN R 360 - Soil and Water Conservation
REN R 426 - Geographical Information Systems Applications in Renewable Resources
REN R 441 - Soil Formation and Landscape Processes
REN R 442 - Soil Biogeochemistry
REN R 445 - Soil Fertility
REN R 483 - Waste Management and Utilization
REN R 495 - Land Reclamation
Remaining APE courses may be taken from any of the above categories, or from the following:
Economics and Policy
AREC 323 - Introduction to Management for Agri-Food, Environmental, and Forestry Businesses
AREC 333 - Economics of Production and Resource Management
AREC 375 - World Food and Agriculture
AREC 384 - Food Market Analysis
AREC 423 - Advanced Management Methods and Applications for Agri-Food, Environmental and Forestry Businesses
AREC 433 - Financial Management in Resource Industries
AREC 473 - Food and Agricultural Policies
AREC 482 - Cooperatives and Alternative Business Institutions
AREC 484 - Strategic Management in Food and Resource Businesses
AREC 485 - Trade and Globalization in Food and Resources
AREC 487 - Managing Market Risk in Resource Industries
ENCS 352 - Natural Resource and Environmental Law
FOREC 473 - Forest Policy
NS 200 - Aboriginal Canada: Looking Forward/Looking Back
NS 201 - Aboriginal Canada: Looking Forward/Looking Back
PHIL 355 - Environmental Ethics
R SOC 355 - Rural Communities and Global Economies
R SOC 450 - Environmental Sociology
Wildlife
BIOL 468 - Problems in Conservation Biology
REN R 464 - Conservation and Management of Endangered Species
ZOOL 354 - Wildlife Disease
ZOOL 371 - Behavioral Ecology
Animal Science
AN SC 260 - Fundamentals of Animal Nutrition
AN SC 310 - Physiology of Domestic Animals
AN SC 311 - Metabolic Physiology of Domestic Animals
AN SC 312 - Reproductive Physiology of Domestic Animals
AN SC 320 - Livestock Growth and Meat Production
AN SC 461 - Ruminant Digestion, Metabolism, and Nutrition
AN SC 472 - Applied Dairy Production Science
AN SC 474 - Applied Beef Cattle Science
ENT 392 - Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Plant, Biology, Physiology and Management
BIOL 381 - A Planet in Crisis
BIOL 433 - Plant-Animal Interactions
BOT 340 - Plant Physiology
PL SC 355 - Cereal, Oilseed, and Pulse Crops
PL SC 380 - Principles of Plant Pathology
REN R 321 - Tree Physiology
REN R 421 - Advanced Tree Physiology
REN R 468 - Conservation of Genetic Resources
Earth Resources
BIOL 340 - Global Biogeochemistry
EAS 205 - Environment Earth
EAS 209 - Geology of Western Canada and the National and Provincial Parks
EAS 225 - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
EAS 250 - Biogeography
EAS 351 - Environmental Applications of Geographical Information Systems
EAS 373 - The Climate System
EAS 457 - Global Change
REN R 446 - Climates and Ecosystems
Resource Measurements
AREC 313 - Statistical Analysis
REN R 215 - Forest Measurements
STAT 337 - Biostatistics
Other
REN R 465 - Environmental and Conservation Field Studies
STS 210 - Environment, Science, Culture, and Values