OVERVIEW
The Environmental Resources Technology Program (ENRT) will prepare graduates to successfully participate in a broad range of exciting careers within the natural resource sector, such as forestry, fish and wildlife technology, rangeland management and environmental assessment. Students of the ENRT Program will experience the extensive and diverse forests, grasslands and aquatic ecosystems in the Nicola Valley. The program delivery is designed to provide students perspectives in both Indigenous Knowledge and Western science.
Certificate
The first year of the program provides learners with the skill set necessary for data collection work in the field. Learners will gain field skills such as tree and plant identification, navigation skills, mapping skills for use in the field and with geographic information systems, soil identification, resource measurements (distance, heights, slope, diameters and elevation) and fire ecology. Since many learners will work within traditional territories, courses in Ethnoscience and Indigenous case law are key to providing an understanding of the uniqueness and impact that Indigenous people have on the land base. Graduates are qualified to carry out field data collection.
Diploma
Year two of the ENRT program focuses on the various environmental disciplines. Learners take what they learned from the first year and apply that knowledge to solve environmental problems. Forest Surveys and Environmental Assessment Surveys integrate year-one measurement skills into applications that are important for assessing the land base. Courses in Wildlife, Fisheries, Grasslands, Environmental Planning, Watershed Hydrology, Silviculture and Timber Development give learners the theoretical knowledge needed to design and carry out field studies. This diploma qualifies learners to work within a variety of environmental disciplines including carrying out forest surveys, monitoring environmental activities, environmental assessment data collection and working on community environmental projects.
The ENRT program is a Technology Accreditation Canada nationally accredited program at the technologist level. National program accreditation involves an independent team of certified professionals performing an extensive audit, which provides graduates and employers confidence that the program meets the educational standards of Canada’s engineering technology and applied science professions. Graduating from a nationally accredited program creates an expedited path to becoming a certified professional with provincial certifying bodies in Canada
Forest Professionals BC – Registered Forest Technologist (R.F.T.) Students graduating from this program meet the FPBC’s core competency standards for registration in their Trainee Forest Technologist program and can become R.F.T.s.
College of Applied Biology – Registered Biology Technologist (R.B. Tech.)
Students graduating from this program meet the academic standards for entry into the College as a Trainee (R.B.Tech.)
Technical Agrologist (T. Ag.) – BC Institute of Agrologists
Students graduating from this program meet the academic standards for registration as T.Ag.s.
