Physiology Major (B.Sc.)
64–65 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue
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U1 Required Courses (18 credits)
- BIOL 200 Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 202 Basic Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- CHEM 222 Introductory Organic Chemistry 2 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
- PHGY 209 Mammalian Physiology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 210 Mammalian Physiology 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 212 Introductory Physiology Laboratory 1 (1 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 213 Introductory Physiology Laboratory 2 (1 credits) · Offered: Winter
U2 and U3 Required Courses (19 credits)
- BIOC 311 Metabolic Biochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 301 Cell and Molecular Laboratory (4 credits) · Offered: Fall, 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
Complementary Courses (28 credits)
12-13 credits selected as follows:
3 credits, one of: (3 credits)
3 credits, one of:
3 credits, one of: (3 credits)
3 credits, one of:
- BIOL 309 Mathematical Models in Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 373 Biometry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- COMP 204 Computer Programming for Life Sciences (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- COMP 250 Introduction to Computer Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- PSYC 305 Statistics for Experimental Design (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
3 credits, one of: (3 credits)
3 credits, one of:
3-4 credits, one of: (3–4 credits)
3-4 credits, one of:
9 credits selected from the Upper-Level Physiology (ULP) course list as follows: (9 credits)
9 credits selected from the Upper-Level Physiology (ULP) course list as follows:
- BIOL 532 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BMDE 505 Cell and Tissue Engineering (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- BMDE 519 Biomedical Signals and Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 502 Advanced Endocrinology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 503 Advanced Endocrinology 02 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EXMD 506 Advanced Applied Cardiovascular Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 507 Advanced Applied Respiratory Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 508 Advanced Topics in Respiration (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- MIMM 414 Advanced Immunology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- MIMM 509 Inflammatory Processes (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 425 Analyzing Physiological Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 451 Advanced Neurophysiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 459D1 Physiology Seminar (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 459D2 Physiology Seminar (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 461D1 Experimental Physiology (4.5 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 461D2 Experimental Physiology (4.5 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHGY 488 Stem Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 502 Exercise Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 513 Translational Immunology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 515 Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 516 Physiology of Blood (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 518 Artificial Cells (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 524 Chronobiology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHGY 525 Cortical Plasticity (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PHGY 531 Topics in Applied Immunology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 550 Molecular Physiology of Bone (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHGY 556 Topics in Systems Neuroscience (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHGY 560 Light Microscopy-Life Science (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PSYC 470 Memory and Brain (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PSYT 500 Advances: Neurobiology of Mental Disorders (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
6 credits selected from the Upper-Level Science (ULS) Note: For Chemistry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery: select from all courses 300 level and above and the ULS (6 credits)
6 credits selected from the Upper-Level Science (ULS) Note: For Chemistry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery: select from all courses 300 level and above and the ULS courses listed below. For Biochemistry, Computer Science, Microbiology and Immunology, Mathematics, Physics, and Pathology: select from all courses 300 level and above. For Anatomy, Biology, Experimental Medicine, Pharmacology, and Psychology: select from the ULS courses listed below:
- ANAT 321 Circuitry of the Human Brain (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANAT 322 Neuroendocrinology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANAT 365 Cellular Trafficking (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANAT 381 Experimental Embryology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ANAT 416 Development, Disease and Regeneration (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANAT 458 Membranes and Cellular Signaling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANAT 541 Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANAT 542 Transmission Electron Microscopy of Biological Samples (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ANAT 565 Diseases-Membrane Trafficking (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOC 458 Membranes and Cellular Signaling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 300 Molecular Biology of the Gene (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 303 Developmental Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 309 Mathematical Models in Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 313 Eukaryotic Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 314 Molecular Biology of Cancer (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 324 Ecological Genetics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- BIOL 373 Biometry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- BIOL 389 Laboratory in Neurobiology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 416 Genetics of Mammalian Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 468 Independent Research Project 3 (6 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- BIOL 518 Advanced Topics in Cell Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 520 Gene Activity in Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- BIOL 524 Topics in Molecular Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 532 Developmental Neurobiology Seminar (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 544 Genetic Basis of Life Span (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- BIOL 546 Genetics of Model Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- BIOL 551 Principles of Cellular Control (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- BIOL 588 Advances in Molecular/Cellular Neurobiology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- CHEM 214 Physical Chemistry/Biological Sciences 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EXMD 401 Physiology and Biochemistry Endocrine Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EXMD 502 Advanced Endocrinology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 503 Advanced Endocrinology 02 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EXMD 504 Biology of Cancer (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 506 Advanced Applied Cardiovascular Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 507 Advanced Applied Respiratory Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- EXMD 508 Advanced Topics in Respiration (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- EXMD 510 Bioanalytical Separation Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- HGEN 575 Human Biochemical Genetics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- NEUR 310 Cellular Neurobiology (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
- PHAR 562 Neuropharmacology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHAR 563 Endocrine Pharmacology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PPHS 501 Population Health and Epidemiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PSYC 302 Pain (3 credits) · Offered: 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
- PSYC 410 Special Topics in Neuropsychology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PSYC 427 Sensorimotor Neuroscience (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PSYC 470 Memory and Brain (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PSYC 522 Neurochemistry and Behaviour (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PSYC 526 Advances in Visual Perception (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- PSYT 500 Advances: Neurobiology of Mental Disorders (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
3 credits selected from the following list: (0–3 credits)
3 credits selected from the following list:
CHEM 212, if not previously taken (0–3 credits)
If not previously taken, CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1. must be completed in addition to the 64-65 program credits.
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