PLAN 340Canadian Environmental Policy and Politics

Units: 0.50
Faculty: Environment
Subject: Planning

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Consideration of the intersection between key ecological themes and recent policy developments. Investigation of current issues in environmental science and politics. Development of critical skills for assessing, framing and conveying information essential to planning, managing and developing policy for environmental stewardship.

Prerequisites

Must have completed at least 1 of the following:
- BIOL150 - Organismal and Evolutionary Ecology (0.50)
- BIOL251 - Fundamentals of Ecology (0.50)
- ENVS200 - Field Ecology (0.50)

Antirequisites

Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
- PLAN240 - Environmental Planning and Policy (0.50)

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Reviewed on UW Flow

63% liked it45% easy66% useful

From 19 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

Drescher has become a bit of a hard head when it comes to submitting stuff now, requiring a version history of EVERY DOCUMENT, but understandable. 5 quizzes, each 8 percent of your mark, study for 2 hours and can easy get a 80.

Dec 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW Flow Remove this
Lectures drag on for a while but really aren't that bad. Grade is split 50/50 between personal work (Mostly biweekly quizzes) and a group project. Ended the term with a 85 from attending lectures and maybe studying for 2 hours per quiz every other week. Drescher isn't the most interesting prof but explains well if you ask for help and clearly cares.

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This course will be the end of you. please don't take this course - please take the stormwater management course. He is not an easy marker, he will give you a low mark im 100% sure this is hurting my GPA.

Dec 2024 · didn’t like itOn UW Flow Remove this
I came into the course with no experience with policy. Although the lecture content was on the assignment topics, the information was easily accessible by google. I did not attend this class and still did well. The course structure (I took this with Michael Drescher) was a group essay work 70%. I do not think this is an accurate way to assess someone's knowledge.

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Fall 2024

Sep 9, 2024 PLAN 340 1 point, 2 comments

u/Ok_Net_9004: “… I am taking PLAN 340 as an elective and putting it towards a parks minor and diploma in ecological restoration and rehabilitation. I’m just starting 2a of ERS. …”

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Fall 2017

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