Master’s Students
As per forthcoming curriculum changes to the RMES program, the IRES Faculty strongly recommend that incoming fall 2011 masters students follow the course schedule below during their 2 year program. As our program revisions are not yet formally approved by the UBC senate, we cannot insist on this plan. It is instead our strong recommendation only. [The former program is that listed in the Masters program page.] All course plans should be discussed with your supervisors before or upon arrival at UBC.
For RMES course descriptions, please click here.
Fall 2011
- RMES 501: History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought (3 credits)
- RMES 500M*: Social-Ecological Systems (3 credits)
- RMES 550: Policy Analysis & Decision Making (3 credits) OR ELECTIVE (3 credits)
Spring 2012
- RMES 502: Research Design and Methods for Decision Making (3 credits)
- RMES 510*: Social-Ecological Systems (3 credits)
- ELECTIVE (3 credits)
Summer 2012
- RMES 599: RMES Thesis (6 credits) – student is recommended to undertake field research during this term.
Fall 2012
- RMES 550: Policy Analysis & Decision Making (3 credits) OR ELECTIVE (3 credits)
- ELECTIVE (3 credits)
- ELECTIVE (3 credits)
Spring 2013
- RMES 599: RMES Thesis (6 credits) – student is recommended to undertake write-up and defence of thesis during this term.
Masters students are expected to complete at least 36 credits. 15 credits will be from the required courses, with a minimum of 12 more credits from electives. In general, the goal for the thesis is one research or scholarly paper suitable for publication.
* Course numbers pending UBC Senate and Curriculum approval.
Please note: Students are currently not allowed to take more than 12 credits of RMES 500 courses.
Students in RMES (Resources Management Environmental Studies) often take courses from other departments on campus, suggested courses are listed below.
PhD Students
Our incoming PhD students are expected to have taken the equivalents to most of the foundation courses offered in our Master’s program. Nonetheless, the IRES Faculty recommends that PhD students successfully complete three courses before proceeding to PhD candidacy.
As our program revisions are not yet formally approved by the UBC senate, we cannot insist on this plan. It is instead our strong recommendation only.[The former program is that listed in the PhD program page.] All course plans should be discussed with your supervisors before or upon arrival at UBC.
For RMES course descriptions, please click here.
Fall 2011
- RMES 501: History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought (3 credits)
- [Optional]: RMES 507*: Human Technology Systems (3 credits)
- [Optional]: RMES 550: Policy Analysis & Decision Making (3 credits)
Spring 2012
- RMES 502: Research Design and Methods for Decision Making (3 credits)
- [Optional]: RMES 510*: Social-Ecological Systems (3 credits)
- [Optional]: ELECTIVE (3 credits)
Please note that PhD students are recommended to enrol in RMES 501 & RMES 502 and then 1 of the 3 foundation courses (RMES 507, RMES 510 or RMES 550). The one chosen should be as far from the area of your research as possible to ensure breadth of experience.
* Course numbers pending UBC Senate and Curriculum approval..
Beyond these courses, we expect our PhD students to attend advanced courses deepening their expertise in their chosen field of research. We also expect them to hone their advanced methods skills with guidance from their supervisors.
Please note that RMES PhD students should register for RMES 699 (RMES Doctoral Thesis) credits during every term.
Ideally, an RMES PhD will have:
- Mastery of the domain of their research comparable to a specialist.
- Mastery of advanced qualitative or quantitative methods (whichever is appropriate to their research methods).
- More than a passing familiarity with the complementary methods to those above.
To view our current courses please select:
Graduate Courses
Undergraduate Courses
Methods Courses
Please note: Students are currently not allowed to take more than 12 credits of RMES 500 courses.
Students in RMES (Resources Management Environmental Studies) often take courses from other departments on campus.
Here is a list of Courses recommended by Bridge program
and some other courses that students in the department would recommend:
- FRST 523: Governance for Sustainability
- FRST 430: Advanced Biometrics
- SOCI 380: Introduction to Surveys
- PLAN 597: Planning for Water Resources Management
- FRST 523: Forest and Environmental Policy – Governance for Sustainability
- AGSC 501: Participatory Research Methodologies
- REM 650 (SFU): Energy and Materials Management and Policy
- FISH 504: Quantitative Analysis of Fisheries I
- ZOOL 527: Principles of Applied Ecology
This survey: Survey 1. will provide more information as to why the students recommend the courses.
This survey: Survey 2 provides details of some courses students have taken and why they have enjoyed them.
If you are a current RMES student you too can participate in the course suggestion survey by clicking this link to take Survey 1.
