Which EUC Program is right for you? - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Which EUC program is right for you? - Official version

Explore which EUC program best matches your interests, preferred ways of learning, and future career goals. Choose the answer that feels most like you. There are no wrong answers; your responses indicate the program themes that may suit you best.

1. Which problem would you most like to help solve?

How can we make cities better places to live?

How can we create a more just and equitable world?

How can we understand and solve environmental problems?

How do people, places and cultures shape our world?

How can organizations and communities become more environmentally sustainable?

2. Which project would you rather work on?

Designing a plan for a neighbourhood with better housing, transit and public spaces.

Creating an art or media project that explores an environmental or social justice issue.

Investigating what is happening to an ecosystem and determining what might be causing it.

Exploring how migration, globalization or culture has changed a particular place.

Developing a sustainability strategy for an organization or community.

3. Which class sounds most interesting?

The Future of Cities

Art, Activism & Social Justice

Climate Change & Environmental Systems

People, Places & Global Change

Sustainability & Environmental Management

4. When you imagine helping the environment, what does that actually look like for you?

Redesigning how a city grows so people and nature can coexist better.

Making art, media or creative projects that get people to feel and care about environmental issues.

Collecting data in the field or lab to understand what is happening to ecosystems.

Studying how environmental change connects to migration, inequality and global development.

Designing practical systems that make resource use more sustainable.

5. Which activity sounds most interesting to you?

Debating zoning policy or sitting in on a city council planning meeting.

Running a workshop where a community tells its own environmental story through performance or design.

Running water samples through lab equipment to test for contaminants.

Mapping how a drought in one country triggers migration to another.

Auditing a company's supply chain to cut its waste and energy use.

6. Which environmental issue grabs your attention most?

Urban sprawl and how neighbourhoods get built sustainably.

Whose voices get left out of environmental decision-making and how to amplify them.

Biodiversity loss and changing ecological systems.

Climate-driven migration and uneven development between countries.

The transition to renewable energy and circular waste systems.

7. You are given $1 million to improve your community. What do you do?

Invest in better transit, housing and public spaces.

Fund projects led by communities addressing social and environmental injustice.

Protect ecosystems and restore damaged natural environments.

Create programs that connect different communities and cultures.

Help organizations and businesses adopt more sustainable practices.

8. How do you prefer to solve problems?

Look at the bigger picture and figure out how different parts of a place work together.

Question assumptions and look at problems from different perspectives.

Gather evidence, conduct research and test possible explanations.

Look at patterns across people, places and societies.

Develop a practical strategy and figure out how to put it into action.

9. What role do you see yourself playing after graduation?

Urban planner or policy advisor shaping how a city develops.

Creative practitioner using storytelling and facilitation to drive social or environmental change.

Environmental scientist or researcher generating the data behind decisions.

Analyst or officer working across borders on global development or environmental issues.

Sustainability manager or consultant implementing environmental strategy inside an organization.

10. How do you prefer to communicate an idea or a problem?

Through policy reports and stakeholder consultation.

Through visual art, film, performance or design.

Through data, charts and scientific findings.

Through comparative analysis of global trends and case studies.

Through strategic plans and technical or business recommendations.

11. Pick the setting where you'd want to spend most of your work time.

City hall, community planning meetings or urban field sites.

A studio, workshop space or community arts setting.

A research lab or field station.

An international organization, NGO or newsroom.

A corporate sustainability office or environmental consultancy.

12. What scale would you want to work at?

The city or regional level.

The community and individual level, through creative expression.

The ecosystem or biophysical systems level.

The global level, across countries and cultures.

The organizational or operational level, within institutions and industries.

13. How would you first approach solving a big environmental problem?

By designing better neighbourhoods and public spaces.

By changing people's minds through art and activism.

By using scientific research to find the root cause.

By studying how global systems affect local areas.

By creating practical plans to manage resources and transition to clean energy.

I want to see different approaches before I pick one focus.

14. Which topic sounds most interesting to explore in a university class?

How cities grow, public transit systems and neighbourhood gentrification.

Environmental racism, food justice and social movements.

How climate change impacts ecosystems, water safety and wildlife biology.

Geopolitical power, human migration and how global environments change over time.

Ecological economics and low-carbon energy.

All of these sound interesting and I'd love an introductory taste of a few.

15. When you think about climate change, what concerns you the most?

How cities will protect residents from heat waves and floods through better infrastructure.

How it unfairly harms marginalized communities and violates human rights.

The physical changes in the atmosphere, ocean pollution and loss of animal habitats.

How it will cause mass human migration and change the geography of the planet.

How we can quickly replace fossil fuels with wind and solar energy.

I want to learn about all these angles before choosing a focus.