Environmental Technology
Diploma in Environmental Technology
Come out, meet your instructors and learn more at an Information Session!
If you feel strongly about the state of the environment and the future health of Planet Earth, why not turn that passion into a career?
Biology and Environmental Tech students monitor Esquimalt Lagoon
Goldstream News Gazette (pdf) looks in on Biology and Environmental Technology student doing field work at Esquimalt Lagoon. These students are enrolled in an ecology course where they monitor the re-growth of planted native grasses and flowers. The plantings help against erosion. Read more….
In this science-based, 32 month program you'll gain academic expertise combined with hands-on laboratory and field skills to prepare you for immediate work. Environmental Technologists work within assessment teams, collecting, collating and presenting information that will help decision-makers understand how their decisions will affect the Earth and its inhabitants.
The program also provides up to two years of transfer credit, allowing you to transfer to a university and directly into third year studies to complete a degree in biology, geography or environmental studies. It contains 13 courses (minimum) which have academic transfer to most universities. The Environmental Technology program has block transfer to the BSc in Environmental Science program at Royal Roads University.
Please contact a Camosun College Academic Advisor for further information.
By combining in-class learning, on-campus lab work and hands-on field trips, you will learn a wide range of marketable skills and knowledge in the areas of:
- aquatic monitoring,
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- map and airphoto interpretation
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- field safety,
- soil classification,
- sustainable resource and waste management,
- horticulture and biodiversity,
- air quality,
- environmental impact assessments,
- and more.
Check out the Student's Perspective (pdf 2MB) to see what you'll be doing!
Paid work experience through co-operative education will give you a big head start in your career. Co-op students and graduates have found employment with several private and public sector employers such as:
- the Institute of Ocean Sciences,
- federal and provincial ministries and departments such as Forests, Fisheries, Parks and Water Management,
- the Department of National Defence,
- First Nations organizations,
- BC Hydro,
- BC Ferries,
- private consulting firms,
- municipalities and regional districts.
Skills-based education and career-based environmental employment, are central themes in this program. Hopefully you will share our enthusiasm and respect for a program that, when the dust has settled, is really down to earth!
See how Camosun is working hard to create a green and healthy planet.
