Bachelor of Environment in Global Environmental Systems

Simon Fraser University - Surrey Campus

Canada,British Columbia

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48 Months

Duration

CAD 35,028/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 130

Application Fee

Sep 2025

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Canada, British Columbia

Type: University

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1965

Total Students: 35,000 +

Int. Students: 8,700 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

250-13450 102 Ave, Surrey, BC V3T 0A3, Canada

Bachelor of Environment in Global Environmental Systems

Program Overview

Environmental issues facing society are complex and interdisciplinary in nature. The major in global environmental systems will produce graduates knowledgeable of climate change, carbon cycles and other dimensions of global environmental change, and able to support environmental decision making with an understanding of the complexity of and interplay between socio-economic and biophysical systems at the global scale. Students will have a basic understanding of modeling, geospatial, and other analytical methods and tools, and the ability to communicate the information gained thereby. Building upon a core in the social and natural sciences, students will have a solid grounding in earth systems, the global scale, and quantitative analysis. They will have the abilities to support decision-making involving multiple systems, and to communicate scientific and technical information to a variety of audiences. The GES major is designed to provide a foundation for post-graduate education in a range of environmental disciplines that use and interpret models for understanding and prediction of global environmental change.


This major takes full advantage of the expertise existing across FENV units and include the core requirements, both lower division and upper division, characteristic of all BEnv majors. It requires an interdisciplinary core of courses from the social and natural sciences and foundational knowledge of quantitative and geospatial methods. Students seeking the GES major will be required to complete more advanced methodology courses as well as six upper division courses in environmental systems, both social and biophysical, and a capstone course that brings these streams together.