ESS Academic Advising and Requirements
ESS Program Options
Wondering where to start? where former academic advisor Kaarin Tae breaks down the different options for making ESS a part of your degree program.
First Year Worksheet
Want to know what your first year of the ESS program might look like? Check out this handy [301 KB].
Environment, Sustainability & Society (ESS)聽can be a Major or Minor in a diversity of degree programs, and the College also offers multiple sustainability Certificate programs.聽Check out the聽different聽options!
ESS Major and Minor requirements
View the pages below for聽information about聽completing a Major, Honours, or Minor in ESS in different degree programs.聽If you changed degree programs at Dal, visit the page for聽the degree that you intend to complete. For example, if you changed from the BA degree to the BSc degree, visit the page for聽the BSc.
Certificates offered by the College of Sustainability
Do you want to study Environment, Sustainability & Society (ESS) but aren't sure you can fit it into your degree as a Major,聽Honours聽or Minor subject? Or聽perhaps you聽want to add an聽additional聽sustainability credential to your record?聽The College of Sustainability offers the following certificate options:
- Certificate in ESS
- Certificate in Communicating Sustainability
- Certificate in Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability
- RBC Sustainability Leadership Certificate
ESS academic advisors
Do you have questions?聽Our ESS Academic Advisors are available for聽advising聽appointments in person, online,聽and by phone.聽Please聽reach out to聽ess.advising@dal.ca.
Advising tips:
- Declare your majors in
- Run your own degree audit in
- Academic Calendars from previous years are archived on the 聽(click PDF for archived calendars).聽
Refer to the Calendar for the year you began your degree program! - Meet with academic advisors for ALL of your Major/Honours/Minor subjects!