Current Courses

General Information

The Arts & Science Academic Calendar has all the requirements, rules and regulations for completing your degree, programs and courses. All of the School’s courses and their prerequisites, corequisites, and recommended preparation courses, as well as the breadth category for the courses, are described in the Arts & Science Academic Calendar entry for the School of the Environment.

Please note: Many courses offered by the School of the Environment have pre-requisites and/or enrolment controls. If you do not meet the pre-requisites of a course or wish to enroll in an "E" enrolment-indicator course, please e-mail the Undergraduate Administrator.

Use the Timetable Builder to look up which courses are being offered in each term, their schedule, their building location*, and the instructor (*room numbers are only available on ACORN for the courses in which you are enrolled). Using the “Additional course information” link, you can also view the course description, including whether a course has prerequisites, corequisites, and/or recommended courses in the Arts & Science Academic Calendar.

Syllabi can be found on our new Undergraduate SharePoint site. You must login with a UTORid.

Summer 2026 Courses

Course Code Term Course Title Delivery Mode
ENV100H1 F Introduction to Environmental Studies Online Asynchronous
ENV200H1 S Assessing Global Change: Science and the Environment Online Synchronous
ENV221H1 S Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment Online Synchronous
ENV222H1 F Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach Online Asynchronous
ENV411H1 S Sustainability Thinking In-Person

 

Fall/Winter 2026-2027 Courses

The table below includes 100, 200, 300, and 400 level course syllabi for this academic year:

100 Level Courses

Course Code Course Title
ENV100H1 Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENV101H1 Confronting the Climate Crisis

 

200 Level Courses

Course Code Course Title
ENV200H1 Assessing Global Change: Science and the Environment 
ENV221H1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment

ENV222H1

 Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach
ENV223H1 Fundamental Environmental Skills

 

300 Level Courses

Course Code Course Title
ENV301H1 Critically Thinking about Climate Solutions NEW!
ENV307H1 Urban Sustainability
ENV316H1 Laboratory and Field Methods in Environmental Science
ENV322H1 International Environmental Policy
ENV323H1 Ontario Environmental Policy
ENV330H1 Waste Not: Faith-Based Environmentalism
ENV333H1 Ecological Worldviews
ENV335H1 Environmental Design
ENV337H1 Human Interactions with the Environment
ENV338H1 Environmental Research Data and Decision-Making
ENV341H1 Environment and Health
ENV346H1 Terrestrial Energy Systems
ENV350H1 Energy Policy and Environment
ENV360H1 Is the Internet Green?
ENV361H1 Social Media and Environmentalism
ENV362H1 Energy and Environment: Transitions in History

 

400 Level Courses

Course Code Course Name
ENV411H1 Sustainability Thinking
ENV421Y1

Community Research for Social & Environmental Change
ENV422H1 Environmental Law
ENV430H1 Community Research in Environment & Faith
ENV440H1 Professional Experience Course
ENV441H1 Planetary Health: Environmental Change and Human Health
ENV450H1 Climate Change and Environment Solutions NEW!
ENV451H1 Environmental Justice at a Time of Crisis
ENV452H1 Environmental Science Seminar
ENV461H1 The U of T Campus as a Living Lab of Sustainability
ENV463H1 Edible Campus
ENV464H1 Communicating Climate Change
ENV491Y1 Independent Studies Course
ENV492H1-ENV493H1 Independent Studies Course

 

Special Topics Courses

Course Code Term Course Name Description Enrollment Notes
ENV481H1F-LEC0101 Fall Change of Climate - Change of Heart and Mind This course offers you the opportunity to synthesize these essential qualities while simultaneously helping to nurture within you the vital mindset – that is, the psychological and emotional resilience as well as an affective and decolonized grounding to the land – that will help you to adapt within a changing world and become empowered to identify and capitalize on opportunities for positive change after graduating.   Priority to School of the Environment Year 3 & 4 students.
ENV481H1S-LEC0101 Winter Ecological Statistics This course will cover popular statistical models for the analysis of ecological data. There will be a particular focus on the statistical properties and assumptions underlying the methods. We will cover topics such as identifiability/estimability, understanding the theory underlying distinct inferential approaches and their impact on ecological conclusions, as well as simulation-based model assessment. Priority to School of the Environment Year 4 students.
ENV482H1F-LEC5101 Fall Environmental Justice in Africa This course critically explores climate and environmental justice in the African context through an examination of the concept of justice, impacts of climate change such as extreme droughts, floods, and forced migration, and the attendant adaptation and mitigation strategies, climate change policies, and environmental challenges. Students who have completed AFR460H1 are encouraged to enroll. Request approval on ACORN to enroll.
ENV482H1F-LEC5201 Fall Climate Finance This course explores the research, projected outcomes and recommendations from the IPCC, multi-stakeholder initiatives and finance collaborations, and assesses signals of future actions to address them. An in-depth knowledge of financial markets is not required.  Priority to School of the Environment Year 3 & 4 students.
ENV482H1S-LEC0101 Winter Media, Democracy, and Climate Justice Through a humanistic social science lens, this course examines today’s dual-pronged democratic and climate crisis through the study of theories of democracy, social change, media, and climate justice. In this course, students will engage with a range of classic and contemporary texts from political theory, media studies, the environmental humanities, decolonial studies, and postcolonial theory, among other fields, to understand how today’s present conditions of crisis came to be and what can be done about it. Pre-requisites: ENV361H1 or ENV464H1. Please e-mail ug.office.env@utoronto.ca to be enrolled.