The departments of Botany and Zoology offer a joint Honours program and a join four year Major in Ecology. The programs involve scientific examinations of the interactions among living organisms and with their environment as individuals, as members of a population, and as components in an ecosystems.
Students can combine an interest in living organisms with field studies.
The Honours program gives students the opportunity to do independent ecological research, while the Major program offers a coop option combining education with employment experience. Though normally a prerequisite for all Zoology and some Botany courses, 071.125 may be waived under special circumstances at the discretion of the department head. Students who qualify should contact the department head to arrange for substitutions for 071.125 . Students registering for 300 and 400 level Botany courses in which prerequisites are not specified must have completed two years in a university program or have written permission of the department head. In addition, all other Faculty requirements for entry to the Honours program must be satisfied.