Secondary Science and Technology (B.Ed.)

120 credits · Faculty of Education · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Foundation Program - Basic Sciences

Foundation program in the Science and Technology program must complete the 29 to 30 credits of Basic Science courses listed below in their first year of studies.

Fall Term

  • BIOL 111 Principles: Organismal Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CHEM 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PHYS 101 Introductory Physics - Mechanics (4 credits) · Offered: Fall

Winter term

Foundation Program - Complementary

For Foundation students with Advanced Standing in one or more of the basic sciences, the Faculty also recommends some of the courses listed below. French Second Language (FRSL) courses require a placement test to determine the course level.

  • EDEM 220 Contemporary Issues in Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • FRSL 101 Beginners French 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • FRSL 102 Beginners French 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • FRSL 207D1 Elementary French 01 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • FRSL 207D2 Elementary French 01 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • FRSL 211D1 Oral and Written French 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • FRSL 211D2 Oral and Written French 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • WCOM 250 Research Essay and Rhetoric (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Required Courses (57 credits)

  • EDEC 201 First Year Professional Seminar (1 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • EDEC 215 English Exam for Teacher Certification (0 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • EDEC 233 Indigenous Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 247 Policy Issues in Quebec and Indigenous Education (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 254 Second Professional Seminar (Secondary) (1 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • EDEC 260 Philosophical Foundations (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 262 Media, Technology and Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 351 Third Professional Seminar (Secondary) (2 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDEC 404 Fourth Year Professional Seminar (Sec) (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EDES 335 Teaching Secondary Science 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDES 350 Classroom Practices (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDES 435 Teaching Secondary Science 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDFE 200 First Field Experience (K/Elem and Secondary) (2 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • EDFE 254 Second Field Experience (Secondary) (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • EDFE 351 Third Field Experience (Secondary) (8 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDFE 451 Fourth Field Experience (Secondary) (7 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDPE 300 Educational Psychology (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • EDPI 309 Diverse Learners (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • EDPI 341 Instruction in Inclusive Schools (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall

Complementary Courses (6 credits)

6 credits selected as described below:

Equity Education (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • EDEC 248 Equity and Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 249 Global Education and Social Justice (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Assessment in Education (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • EDPE 304 Measurement and Evaluation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDES 304 Educational Techniques for Planning and Assessment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Secondary Science and Technology (51 credits)

51 credits in designated science courses selected to provide subject matter expertise in the four areas of: the Material World Earth and Space the Living World the Technological World All students need to plan their course selections with attention to the prerequisites.

Required Courses (15 credits)

Core Complementary Courses (10 credits)

The Living World (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • BIOL 200 Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • LSCI 202 Molecular Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

The Material World

Complementary Courses (26 credits)

At least 9 of the 26 credits must be taken at the 300 level or above, distributed as follows: 3 to 15 credits from the Living World complementary list; 3 to 18 credits from Earth and Space complementary list; 3 to 18 credits from Earth and Space - Environment complementary list; 0 to 15 credits from the Material World complementary list; 3 to 12 credits from the Technological World complementary list.

Living World (3–15 credits)

Students select a minimum of 3 credits to a maximum of 15 credits from the following lists:

Earth and Space (3–18 credits)

Students select a minimum of 3 credits to a maximum of 18 credits from the following list:

  • ATOC 214 Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 219 Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 309 Weather Radars and Satellites (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ATOC 315 Thermodynamics and Convection (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 201 Understanding Planet Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • EPSC 210 Introductory Mineralogy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 212 Introductory Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 220 Principles of Geochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 221 General Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 225 Properties of Minerals (1 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 233 Earth and Life Through Time (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 303 Structural Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 320 Elementary Earth Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 350 Tectonics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ESYS 200 Earth-System Interactions (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ESYS 300 Earth Data Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ESYS 301 Earth System Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 320 Introductory Astrophysics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Earth and Space - Environment (3–18 credits)

Students select a minimum of 3 credits to a maximum of 18 credits from the following list:

  • ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 301 Environmental Research Design (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • GEOG 200 Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 205 Global Change: Past, Present and Future (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

The Material World (0–15 credits)

Students select a maximum of 15 credits from the following list: Note: Students who plan to teach Grade 11 Chemistry or Physics should select the maximum 15 credits from this list:

  • CHEM 222 Introductory Organic Chemistry 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • CHEM 267 Introductory Chemical Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CHEM 273 Introductory Physical Chemistry 2: Kinetics and Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CHEM 302 Introductory Organic Chemistry 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CHEM 381 Inorganic Chemistry 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CHEM 392 Experimental Chemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • CHEM 429 Chemistry of Energy, Storage and Utilization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MATH 222 Calculus 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • PHYS 224 Physics of Music (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 241 Signal Processing (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 242 Electricity and Magnetism (2 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 251 Honours Classical Mechanics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 253 Thermal Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 257 Experimental Methods 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 258 Experimental Methods 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 328 Electronics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 339 Measurements Laboratory in General Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 350 Honours Electricity and Magnetism (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 351 Honours Classical Mechanics 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 352 Honours Electromagnetic Waves (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 357 Honours Quantum Physics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 362 Statistical Mechanics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 432 Physics of Fluids (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 434 Optics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 457 Honours Quantum Physics 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

The Technological World (3–12 credits)

Students select a minimum of 3 credits to a maximum of 12 credits from the following list:

  • COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • COMP 206 Introduction to Software Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 280 History and Philosophy of Computing (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MATH 204 Principles of Statistics 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Elective Courses (6 credits)

Listed courses

  • BIOL 112 Cell and Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CHEM 120 General Chemistry 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MATH 141 Calculus 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • PHYS 102 Introductory Physics - Electromagnetism (4 credits) · Offered: Winter

Course choices depend on a student's background in science and plans for upper-level Physics courses.

Course choices depend on a student's background in science and plans for upper-level Physics courses.

  • BIOL 111 Principles: Organismal Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 112 Cell and Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CHEM 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CHEM 120 General Chemistry 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MATH 140 Calculus 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MATH 141 Calculus 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MATH 150 Calculus A (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MATH 151 Calculus B (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PHYS 101 Introductory Physics - Mechanics (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 102 Introductory Physics - Electromagnetism (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 131 Mechanics and Waves (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 142 Electromagnetism and Optics (4 credits) · Offered: Winter

3 credits of Statistics: (3 credits)

3 credits of Statistics:

  • MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

3 credits of History of Science: (3 credits)

3 credits of History of Science:

  • EDTL 520 Perspectives on Knowledge in Mathematics and Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

3 credits of the Material World: (3 credits)

3 credits of the Material World:

  • CHEM 281 Inorganic Chemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

3 credits of the Living World: (3 credits)

3 credits of the Living World:

  • BIOL 206 Methods in Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

3 credits of the Technological World: (3 credits)

3 credits of the Technological World:

  • EDTL 525 Teaching Science and Technology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

3 credits from: (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • CHEM 203 Survey of Physical Chemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CHEM 213 Introductory Physical Chemistry 1: Thermodynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

4 credits: (4 credits)

4 credits:

  • CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall

a maximum of 15 credits from the following lists: Cell and Molecular Biology

a maximum of 15 credits from the following lists: Cell and Molecular Biology

  • BIOL 201 Cell Biology and Metabolism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 202 Basic Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 300 Molecular Biology of the Gene (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 301 Cell and Molecular Laboratory (4 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • BIOL 313 Eukaryotic Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Human and Organismal Biology

Human and Organismal Biology

  • BIOL 205 Functional Biology of Plants and Animals (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EDKP 292 Nutrition and Wellness (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDKP 395 Exercise Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 207 Nutrition and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 307 Metabolism and Human Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHGY 209 Mammalian Physiology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHGY 210 Mammalian Physiology 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Populations, Ecosystems, and Evolution

Populations, Ecosystems, and Evolution

  • BIOL 215 Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 240 Monteregian Flora (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 304 Evolution (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 305 Animal Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 331 Ecology/Behaviour Field Course (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 352 Dinosaur Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 334 Invertebrate Paleontology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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