Minutes of the BC Environmental Articulation Committee May 11 – 13, 2015

ii) The Department of Geography, has created a Minor in Climate Change and Society, a new Major and Minor in Urban Change, and a new course GEOG 340 “Geography of Wine.” iii) The School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) has revised its Sustainable Business Joint Major (with the Beedie School of Business) which incorporates new and existing REM, Planning, and Sustainable Development co. [...] We have learned from Tasha Faye Evans about the use of Saymahmit (the Port Moody part of the Burrard Inlet) by First Nations, about the struggle for the Kwikwitlem people and the coho salmon as a result of the damming of the Coquitlam River and about the house post project based near the Noon’s Creek Hatchery. [...] The major project is a key component of the program and serves the main integrating activity to assist students in developing their competencies in environmental sciences through the application of knowledge, skills, and values; synthesis; and effective communication. [...] Langara’s ENVS Program received a donation to create a new scholarship; the $1500 will be distributed annually in the spring semester to a student engaged in the fields of sustainability and environmental stewardship. [...] Stephan Dery of the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) Environmental Science program now part of the Faculty of the Environment attended online and submitted an electronic report that is posted on the shared drive.