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Nov 27, 2024
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Undergraduate Calendar 2022-2023 [-ARCHIVED CALENDAR-]
Honours Life Sciences (B.Sc.)
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Admission
Completion of any Level I program with a Grade Point Average of at least 5.0 including:
Program Notes
- Registration in an Honours Life Sciences program does not guarantee access to all courses. Some courses have program restrictions. Students should check prerequisites carefully.
- LIFESCI 2G03 does not substitute for BIOLOGY 2C03 or MOLBIOL 2C03 for prerequisite purposes.
- Students interested in completing a thesis or independent study course should consider completing LIFESCI 3RP3 in Level III.
- Students interested in graduate school may wish to consider completion of a thesis or independent study course (See LIFESCI 4A03 , 4B09 A/B S , 4C12 A/B S , 4D15 A/B S ).
- Level IV Research Seminar topics may change from year to year. Research Seminar topics and descriptions are available on the program web site (https://www.science.mcmaster.ca/sis/undergraduate/life-sciences.html). Honours Life Sciences students must complete at least 3 units of Knowledge Transfer/Seminar Experience (Course List E).
- Students entering Level IV Honours Life Sciences (not including the Origins of Disease Specialization or the Sensory Motor Systems Specialization) must complete and submit a ballot, rank ordering their preference for enrolment in Level IV seminar offerings by the end of March. Students will be informed of their ballot result by the end of May. Failure to submit a ballot by the stated deadline may compromise enrolment in a preferred seminar. The Life Sciences program pre-registration ballot will include all Level IV Life Sciences research seminar courses.
- LIFESCI 4CM3 is required for students completing the Honours Life Sciences - Origins of Disease Specialization and is not included in the pre-registration ballot.
- LIFESCI 4XX3 is required for students completing the Honours Life Sciences - Sensory Motor Systems Specialization and is not included in the pre-registration ballot.
- Course planning is extremely important. Students must review and consider the requisites on Level II, III and IV courses when enrolling in the previous Levels.
- Students who entered the program prior to September 2020, will have the choice to use LIFESCI 3N03 toward Course List A or Course List C.
- LIFESCI 3P03 may be used toward either Course List A or Course List C.
- SUSTAIN 3SS3 is only offered in the Spring Term.
Course List A - Communication Skills
Course List B - Laboratory Skills
Course List C - Experiential Learning
Course List D - Life Sciences Course List
| Astronomy |
ASTRON 2B03 |
| Biochemistry |
Levels II, III, IV* |
| Biology |
Levels II, III, IV* |
| Biophysics |
BIOPHYS 2A03 , 2S03 , 3D03 , 3G03 |
| Chemistry |
CHEM 2BC3 , 2E03 , 2OA3 , 2OB3 , 2P03 , 3RC3 |
| Chemical Biology |
CHEMBIO 2A03 , 2P03 , 3BM3 , 3OA3 , 4OA3 , 4OB3 |
| Data Science |
DATASCI 2G03 |
| Earth Sciences |
EARTHSC 2E03 , 3P03 , 4PA3 |
| Environmental Science |
ENVIRSC 2E03, 2EI3, 2GI3, 3B03 , 3EE3, 3GI3, 3GV3, 3SR3, 4HH3 |
| Environment & Society |
ENVSOCTY 2EI3 , 2GI3 , 2HI3 , 2UI3 , 3EC3 , 3EE3 , 3ER3 , 3GI3 , 3GV3 , 3HP3 , 3SR3 , 3UP3 , 4HH3 |
| Explore |
EXPLORE 3IS3 |
| Geography |
GEOG 2EI3, 2GI3, 2HI3, 2UI3, 3EC3, 3EE3, 3ER3, 3GI3, 3GV3, 3HP3, 3SR3, 3UP3, 4HH3 |
| Health Sciences |
HTHSCI 2G03 , 3DD3, 3DD6 A/B , 3I03 , 3K03 , 3RS3 , 3DM3 , 4II3 , 4O03 |
| Kinesiology |
KINESIOL 2Y03 , 2YY3 |
| Life Sciences |
Levels II, III, IV* |
| Mathematics |
MATH 2UU3 , 3MB3 |
| Medical Physics |
MEDPHYS 4B03 , 4F03 , 4U03 |
| Medical Radiation Sciences |
MEDRADSC 3X03 |
| Molecular Biology |
Levels III, IV* |
| Neuroscience |
NEUROSCI 3J03 , 3SN3 |
| Physics |
PHYSICS 2G03 |
| Psychology |
PSYCH Levels II, III, IV* |
| Science |
Levels II, III* |
| Science Communication |
SCICOMM 2A03 , 2M03 , 2NM3 |
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* All Levels II, III, IV courses for which the prerequisites have been met are acceptable. |
Course List E - Knowledge Transfer/Seminar Experience
Requirements
120 units total (Levels I to IV), of which no more than 48 units may be Level I
30 units
(See Admission above.)
6 units
from
- Course List A - Communication Skills (See Program Notes 10 and 11 above.)
3 units
from
- Course List B - Laboratory Skills
3-15 units
from
- Course List C - Experiential Learning (See Program Notes 10 and 11 above.)
18 units
from
- Course List D - Life Sciences Course List
3 units
from
- Course List E - Knowledge Transfer/Seminar Experience
27-39 units
- Electives (See Program Note 9 above.)
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