Courses

Food production plant sanitation, environmental monitoring, global food safety standards, and food plant internal audits. Prerequisite: FNH 403.

Regenerative sustainability and the sustainability nexus; health and environmental impacts of the food industry; environmental performance indicators and management systems; approaches to enhance sustainability in the food industry. Prerequisite: One of FNH 309, FNH 313.

Enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, and the nutrition care process are applied to select diseases or conditions, including trauma, surgery, critical care, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, liver diseases, and diseases of the gallbladder and exocrine pancreas. Restricted to students in year 4 of the dietetics major. Prerequisite: All of FNH_V 371, FNH_V 375.

Theory and methods in public health nutrition and health promotion program planning to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nutrition-related programs for communities and populations. Considers factors affecting behavior and the social determinants of health. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: FNH 250 and fourth-year standing.

Evidence-based examination of the role of nutrition in the prevention of chronic disease. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: FNH 398.

The historical, cultural, political, economic and legal issues that inform the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada, examined from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. Credit will be granted for only one of FNIS 100, FNSP 100, or FNSP 200. Restricted to Undergraduate Students.

Representation, identity, and cultural politics through Indigenous literature, film, and the visual arts; the relationship between these sites of cultural production and the self-determination struggles of Indigenous peoples. Credit will be granted for only one of FNSP 200, FNIS 220, or FNSP 220. Restricted to Undergraduate Students. Recommended pre-requisite: FNIS 100

Responsible and community-based research from a critical Indigenous perspective; methods for identifying and assessing research materials, critical analysis, oral history/qualitative research interviewing and analysis, and research ethics in the design and implementation of community-based student research projects. Credit will be granted for only one of FNIS 320 or FNSP 320. Restricted to Undergraduate Students. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: Either (a) FNIS 310 or (b) FNSP 310.

The historical, cultural, political, and activist roots of contemporary Indigenous feminisms. Indigenous feminist methodologies, theory, and praxis in relation to contemporary Indigenous politics and social justice movements. Credit will be granted for only one of FNSP_V 401D, FNIS_V 451, or FNSP_V 451. Restricted to Undergraduate Students. Prerequisite: One of FNIS_V 100, FNSP_V 200, FNIS_V 210, FNSP_V 210, FNIS_V 220, FNSP_V 220.

New media and digital storytelling works designed and implemented by Indigenous artists, authors, and programmers. Restricted to Undergraduate Students. Prerequisite: One of FNIS_V 100, FNSP_V 200, FNIS_V 210, FNSP_V 210, FNIS_V 220, FNSP_V 220.

Potential impacts of climate change on global forest systems. Concepts and techniques of climate change modelling; adaptive management strategies.

The ecological processes found in tropical humid and dry forests, including a series of case studies drawn from tropical forests around the world. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Interdependence and dynamics of different forest ecosystem services and how they contribute to sustainable forest management and community livelihoods.

Science of cultivating forest stands, including influence of climate and soil, characteristics of tree growth and stand development, and forest types and plantation designs. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

The mechanics and productivity of a broad range of forest harvesting systems combined with topics on forest access. [3-0-1] Prerequisite: One of ECON_V 101, FRST_V 101. Corequisite: FRST_V 318.

An overview of global food markets including recent trends (e.g., vertical coordination, strategic alliances, multinationals and small firms in niche markets), marketing and trade institutions such as state-trading enterprises and WTO regulations, issues specific to developing nations, and case studies. Prerequisite: One of ECON_V 101, ECON_V 310, FRST_V 101, LFS_V 101.

Willingness to pay, opportunity costs, externalities, and market failures in natural resource markets; dynamic efficiency; economic applications including mineral, marine, forest, land, water, and biodiversity. Prerequisite: One of ECON_V 101, ECON_V 310, FRST_V 101, LFS_V 101. Equivalency: ECON_V 374

Market failure and gains from trade in the presence of environmental externalities; multilateral trade and environmental agreements; case studies, including biological invasions, transport emissions, climate-induced migration, carbon leakage, ivory trade, food miles. Prerequisite: One of ECON_V 101, ECON_V 310, FRST_V 101, LFS_V 101.

Estimating causal relationships in natural resource economics; applied data analysis; econometrics; counterfactual thinking, and applications to the economics of: natural resource conservation, species loss and extraction, protected areas, international trade of wildlife products, and endangered species legislation. Prerequisite: One of LFS_V 252, STAT_V 200, BIOL_V 300, ECON_V 325, COMM_V 291, FRST_V 231 and one of ECON_V 101, ECON_V 310, FRST_V 101, LFS_V 101.

This course provides students with practical tools used globally to evaluate policies and investment projects in the food and resource sectors. Students learn three core analytical tools: Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and Domestic Resource Cost (DRC) for policy evaluation, and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for investment project appraisal. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

The course will cover the economic management of capture (wild) fisheries and aquaculture from a world perspective. Specifically, the course will examine the interdependence between our economies and natural ecosystems.

This course introduces you to core environmental datasets spanning weather, ecology, and satellite imagery data sources, which are routinely used to support environmental metrics and decision-making in the food and resource sector. It provides hands-on experience with data extraction, processing and analysis techniques, as well as visualization tools, which are particularly adapted to dealing with the complexities of each environmental data type. The programming languages covered are R and Python, as well as some JavaScript for Google Earth Engine. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

This course will provide the necessary foundation and experience for students to apply a variety of modeling
and quantitative techniques to business and resource management problems. This class will concentrate on frequently used quantitative and decision making models that include decision analysis, optimization such as linear programming (allocation and scheduling of resources), simulation modeling, operations analysis and inventory management.

Study of the literature and cinema of First Nations, Inuit and Métis creators working in French and in Francophone spaces in Canada. Recommendation: One of FREN 321, FREN 328, FREN 329 and one of FREN 225, FREN 402.