Medicine Hat College & Lethbridge Community College - Renewable Resource Management Diploma / Environmental Assessment and Restoration Diploma / Bachelor of Applied Conservation Enforcement

http://www.mhc.ab.ca/calendar/programs/info.php?program=22

Medicine Hat, AB
Phone: (403)529-3819

Ron Linowski, Program Coordinator
Phone: (403) 502-8440
E-Mail: envirosci@mhc.ab.ca

Lethbridge, AB
Terry Kowalchuk
Chair, School of Environmental Sciences
(403) 320-3232
(800) 572-0103, ext. 3232
Email: envisci@lethbridgecollege.ab.ca

Medicine Hat College offers the first year of Environmental Science diploma programs in Renewable Resource Management and Environmental Assessment and Restoration and the first year of the Bachelor of Applied Conservation Enforcement. The second and subsequent years, if applicable, are completed at Lethbridge Community College (LCC).

Bachelor of Applied Conservation Enforcement
In the first year of the Bachelor of Applied Conservation Enforcement program, you complete the common core of 11 courses during the Fall and Winter semesters at Medicine Hat College. After successfully completing three additional years at Lethbridge Community College, you will be awarded a Bachelor of Applied Conservation Enforcement.

The Bachelor of Applied Conservation Enforcement degree integrates the principles of renewable resource management and law enforcement techniques to provide you with the knowledge and skills required for employment in natural resource law enforcement, environmental protection, and industrial compliance with environmental legislation. You are prepared with the knowledge and skills required to undertake the diverse duties expected of resource officers throughout North America.

Environmental Assessment and Restoration
In Year One of the Environmental Assessment and Restoration diploma, you complete the common core of 11 courses during the Fall and Winter semesters at Medicine Hat College. After successfully completing the second year at Lethbridge Community College, you are awarded a diploma in Environmental Assessment and Restoration.

The two-year diploma appeals to your interest in a technically-oriented career with well-balanced components of field and laboratory work. The emphasis is on soil and water resources and their ecological relationships to other renewable resources. This program is intended to prepare technicians in fields such as: Reclamation of disturbed lands; water management and monitoring; soil survey and analysis; water monitoring; resource inventory and contaminant management.

Renewable Resource Management
In the first year of the Renewable Resource Management diploma, you complete the common core of 11 courses during the Fall and Winter semesters at Medicine Hat College. The second year is completed at Lethbridge Community College.

Proper management of renewable natural resources is vital to the sustainability of resource use and is based on the knowledge that resources are interrelated and that a change in one usually affects the others. You gain an understanding of the principles of ecosystem management and their application to integrated natural resources management. A broad range of technical skills are developed appropriate to the needs of employers in the fields of natural resource management.

Retrieved from Medicine Hat College website on 4/19/2010.