Program Requirements
The Concurrent B.Sc.(F.Sc.) and B.Sc.(Nutr.Sc.); Foundation Year Program is designed to provide core science prerequisites for those entering university for the first time from a high school system (outside of the Quebec CEGEP system).
Required Courses (30 credits)
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AEBI 120 General Biology (3 credits)
Overview
Biology (Agric & Envir Sc) : An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Lovat, Christie (Fall)
Fall
2 lectures and one 3-hour lab per week
Restriction: Not open to students who have obtained CEGEP competency 00UK.
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AEBI 122 Cell Biology (3 credits)
Overview
Biology (Agric & Envir Sc) : Introduction to key topics in cell biology, including chemical biology, cell membranes, enzymes in biological reactions, cellular energetics, cell signaling, DNA synthesis and repair, gene expression and regulatory mechanisms. Connections between cell biology and animal physiology.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Bazzi, Leen (Winter)
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AECH 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 credits)
Overview
Chemistry (Agric&EnvirSci) : The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Cherestes, Alice (Fall)
Fall
3 lectures, one 3 hour lab, and one tutorial hour
Restriction: Note open to students who have taken FDSC 110.
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AEMA 101 Calculus 1 with Precalculus (4 credits)
Overview
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci) : A review of precalculus: functions, graphs,polynomials and rational functions, exponentialand logarithmic functions, and trigonometry.Limits, continuity, and derivatives. Differentiationof elementary functions. Anti-differentiation. Applications.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Titley-Péloquin, David (Fall)
Fall
3 lectures
Prerequisite: a course in functions
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AEMA 102 Calculus 2 (4 credits)
Overview
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci) : Integration, the indefinite and definite integral. Trapezoidal and Simpson's Rule approximations for the integral. Applications to areas between curves, distance, volume, length of a curve, work, area of a surface of revolution, average values, moments, etc. Improper integrals and infinite series.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Titley-Péloquin, David (Winter)
Winter
3 lectures
Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent
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AEPH 112 Introductory Physics 1 (4 credits)
Overview
Physics (Agric & Envir Sci) : Kinematics in one and two dimensions. Newton's laws of motion. Circular motion and orbits. Rotation of a rigid body. Momentum. Work and energy, power. Conservation principles. Simple harmonic motion. Waves and sound.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Dhiman, Jaskaran; Monteiro Diogo, Erica (Fall)
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AEPH 114 Introductory Physics 2 (4 credits)
Overview
Physics (Agric & Envir Sci) : Electric and magnetic properties of matter: electrostatics, electric currents, the link between electric and magnetic phenomena, geometrical optics, interference diffraction.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Sunjka, Predrag; Titley-Péloquin, David (Winter)
Winter
3 lecture hours, 2 lab hours, 2 tutorial hours
Prerequisite: AEPH 112 or AEPH 113 or PHYS 101 or PHYS 131 or CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalents, or permission of instructor
Corequisite: AEMA 102 (or MATH 141 or higher level calculus course) or CEGEP objective 00UP, or permission of instructor.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 102 or PHYS 142 or AEPH 115 or CEGEP objective 00US or equivalent. Not open to students in Bioresource Engineering.
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FDSC 230 Organic Chemistry (4 credits)
Overview
Food Science : Atomic and molecular structure, modern concepts of bonding, overview of functional groups, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, mechanisms and reactions of aliphatic compounds.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Cherestes, Alice (Fall) Cherestes, Alice (Winter)