Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Minor (B.Sc.)

24 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Complementary Courses (24 credits)

The 24 credits required for this program must satisfy the following criteria: At least 18 credits must be outside the student's main discipline. Depth requirement: at least 6 credits must be at the 300 level or above. Breadth requirement: at least 9 credits must be taken from the Basic Life Sciences List, at least 3 credits from the Health Social Sciences List, at least 3 credits from the Empirical Science and Technology List. The remaining 9 credits may be selected from any of the lists.

Basic Life Sciences (9–24 credits)

At least 9 credits from:

ANAT 212 Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Function (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
ANAT 214 Systemic Human Anatomy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
ANAT 261 Introduction to Dynamic Histology (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
ANAT 262 Introductory Molecular and Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
ANAT 321 Circuitry of the Human Brain (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
ANAT 365 Cellular Trafficking (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
ANAT 381 Experimental Embryology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
BIOC 212 Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Function (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
BIOC 311 Metabolic Biochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
BIOC 450 Protein Structure and Function (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
BIOC 458 Membranes and Cellular Signaling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
BIOL 200 Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
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 303 Developmental Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
BIOL 306 Neural Basis of Behaviour (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
BIOL 314 Molecular Biology of Cancer (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
BIOL 320 Evolution of Brain and Behaviour (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
CHEM 222 Introductory Organic Chemistry 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
CHEM 302 Introductory Organic Chemistry 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
CHEM 502 Advanced Bio-Organic Chemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
CHEM 503 Drug Discovery (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
EXMD 401 Physiology and Biochemistry Endocrine Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
MIMM 211 Introductory Microbiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
MIMM 214 Introductory Immunology: Elements of Immunity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
MIMM 314 Intermediate Immunology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
MIMM 323 Microbial Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
MIMM 324 Fundamental Virology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
MIMM 387 The Business of Science (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
MIMM 465 Bacterial Pathogenesis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
MIMM 466 Viral Pathogenesis (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
NSCI 201 Introduction to Neuroscience 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
NUTR 307 Metabolism and Human Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PATH 300 Human Disease (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHAR 300 Drug Action (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PHAR 301 Drugs and Disease (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHAR 303 Principles of Toxicology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHAR 503 Drug Discovery and Development 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PHAR 504 Drug Discovery and Development 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHGY 209 Mammalian Physiology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PHGY 210 Mammalian Physiology 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHGY 311 Channels, Synapses and Hormones (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PHGY 312 Respiratory, Renal, and Cardiovascular Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHGY 313 Blood, Gastrointestinal, and Immune Systems Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
PHGY 314 Integrative Neuroscience (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PSYC 211 Introductory Behavioural Neuroscience (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
PSYC 311 Human Cognition and the Brain (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
PSYC 317 Genes and Behaviour (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
PSYC 318 Behavioural Neuroscience 2 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
PSYC 342 Hormones and Behaviour (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Health Social Science (3–24 credits)

At least 3 credits from:

ANTH 204 Anthropology of Meaning (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
ANTH 314 Psychological Anthropology 01 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
ECON 440 Health Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
HIST 350 Science and the Enlightenment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
HIST 381 Colonial Africa (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality and Medicine (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
HSEL 308 Issues in Women's Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
HSEL 309 Women's Reproductive Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
PHIL 237 Contemporary Moral Issues (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
POLI 417 Health Care in Canada (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
PSYC 215 Social Psychology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
PSYC 304 Child Development (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
PSYC 333 Personality and Social Psychology (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
PSYC 412 Child Development: Psychopathology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
PSYC 413 Cognitive Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
PSYC 414 Social Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
SOCI 225 Medicine and Health in Modern Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
SOCI 310 Sociology of Mental Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
SOCI 525 Health Care Systems in Comparative Perspective (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
SOCI 538 Selected Topics in Sociology of Biomedical Knowledge (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Empirical Science and Technology (3–24 credits)

At least 3 credits from: Credit given for statistics courses is subject to certain restrictions. Students should consult the "Course Overlap" information in the "Course Requirements" section for the Faculty of Science.

BIOL 309 Mathematical Models in Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
BIOL 373 Biometry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
COMP 462 Computational Biology Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
GEOG 202 Statistics and Spatial Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
MATH 203 Principles of Statistics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
MATH 204 Principles of Statistics 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
MATH 323 Probability (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
MATH 324 Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
PSYC 204 Introduction to Psychological Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
PSYC 305 Statistics for Experimental Design (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

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