Bachelor of Science in Environmental Chemistry

About this programme

Featuring hands-on training utilizing cutting-edge instrumentation in state-of-the-art research facilities like Trent’s Water Quality Centre, this program combines advanced chemical analysis with environmental science to investigate and solve real-world environmental challenges. Explore how chemicals form, move through, and interact with the environment, and investigate the effects of contaminants on ecosystems. Bridging chemistry and environmental science, this program gives students the opportunity to develop technical skills in chemical analysis and modern analytical techniques while tackling issues such as pollution, toxicology, pest control, and climate change. You will graduate with high demand scientific and practical expertise in environmental monitoring, research, consulting, and related fields. Fast-track your education, by earning your M.Sc. in Environmental & Life Sciences in only 12-20 months of graduating from your Honours B.Sc. Add an Option to your Environmental Chemistry degree to explore an additional area of interest Leveraging Trent’s academic and research strengths in arts-based and environmental education, the Option in Climate Communication blends courses across disciplines to teach you a new storytelling approach that examines how to better understand media's effect on audiences’ morals, values, and behaviours. Equipped with this knowledge, this new offering at Trent University aims to use more effective climate change communications and environmental storytelling to foster a more sustainable and equitable world where our collective well-being is