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Feb 17, 2025
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Undergraduate Calendar 2013-2014 [-ARCHIVED CALENDAR-]
Honours Life Sciences (B.Sc.)
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Admission
Completion of any Level I program with a Cumulative Average of at least 6.0 including: 9 units
from - Life Sciences I Course List
(See Admission Notes above.) Note
Students who have satisfied all above admission criteria and have a Cumulative Average between 5.5 and 5.9 will be admitted to the program, on Program Probation. Students may be on program probation only once. Eligibility to continue in the program will require a Cumulative Average of at least 6.0 at the next academic review. Admission (Effective September 2014)
Completion of any Level I program with a Cumulative Average of at least 6.0 including: 12 units
from - Life Sciences I Course List
(See Admission Notes above.) Note
Students who have satisfied all above admission criteria and have a Cumulative Average between 5.5 and 5.9 will be admitted to the program, on Program Probation. Students may be on program probation only once. Eligibility to continue in the program will require a Cumulative Average of at least 6.0 at the next academic review. Program Notes
- Registration in the Honours Life Sciences program does not guarantee access to all courses. Some courses have program restrictions and students are responsible to read course prerequisites carefully.
- Students interested in completing a thesis or independent study course should consider completing LIFE SCI 3X03 and/or LIFE SCI 3RP3 in Level III.
- Students interested in graduate school may wish to consider completion of a thesis or independent study course (See LIFE SCI 4A03 , 4B06 , 4C09 ).
- Level IV Research Seminar topics may change from year to year. Research Seminar topics and descriptions are available on the web (http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/lifesciences) and from the Life Sciences office in late February of each year.
- Students with credit in any of the following courses may use these units to satisfy requirements from the Honours Life Sciences Course List: CHEM 2BA3, 2BB3, 2N03, 2R03, KINESIOL 3E03 , 3Y03 , 4P03 , ORIGINS 2FF3.
- LIFE SCI 2G03 does not substitute for BIOLOGY 2C03 or MOL BIOL 2C03 for prerequisite purposes.
- Completion of BIOLOGY 1A03 , 1M03 , PSYCH 1X03 , 1XX3 is required by the end of Level II.
Honours Life Sciences Course List
| Astronomy | ASTRON 2B03 | | Biochemistry | Levels II, III, IV* | | Biology | Levels II, III, IV* | | Chemistry | CHEM 2E03 , 2OA3 , 2OB3 | | Chemical Biology | CHEM BIO 2A03 , 2P03 | | Environmental Science | Levels II, III, IV* | | Geography | Levels II, III, IV | | Health Sciences | HTH SCI 3I03 , 3K03 , 4II3 | | Kinesiology | KINESIOL 2Y03 , 2YY3 , 4P03 | | Life Sciences | Levels II, III, IV* | | Mathematics | MATH 2E03 | | Medical Physics | MED PHYS 2A03, 3A03, 3R03 , 4A03, 4B03 , 4L03 , 4SZ3 , 4U03 , 4XX3 | | Molecular Biology | Levels III, IV* | | Origins | ORIGINS 2LU3 , 3D03 , 3E03 , 3F03 | | Psychology | PSYCH Levels II, III, IV* | | Science | Levels II, III, IV* | | Statistics | STATS 2B03 | | * All Levels II, III, IV courses for which the prerequisites have been met are acceptable. | Requirements
120 units total (Levels I to IV), of which no more than 48 units may be Level I 30 units
(See Admission above.) 36 units
- from the Honours Life Sciences Course List of which at least 18 units must be Levels III, IV
(See Program Notes 2, 3 and 4 above.) 33-36 units
- Electives
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