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Program Requirements

The B.Sc.(F.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)

• AEBI 120 General Biology (3 credits)

  Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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.

• AEBI 122 Cell Biology (3 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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)

  • Provides a basis for later courses in cell biology.

  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who have passed BIOL 112 or obtained CEGEP competency 00XU; not equivalent to LSCI 202.

• AECH 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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.

• AECH 111 General Chemistry 2 (4 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  Overview

  Chemistry (Agric&EnvirSci) : Thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, aqueous solution chemistry including applications to acids, bases and buffers and selected topics in organic chemistry.

  Terms: Winter 2025

  Instructors: Cherestes, Alice (Winter)

  • Winter

  • 3 lectures, one 3 hour lab, and one tutorial hour

  • Prerequisite(s): FDSC 110 or AECH 110

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken FDSC 111.

• AEMA 101 Calculus 1 with Precalculus (4 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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

• AEMA 102 Calculus 2 (4 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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

• AEPH 112 Introductory Physics 1 (4 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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)

  • Fall

  • Three 1-hour lectures, one 2-hour lab, one 1.5-hour tutorial per week

  • Corequisite: AEMA 101 or equivalent

  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have passed AEPH 113 or obtained CEGEP competency 00UR. Not open to students in Bioresource Engineering.

• AEPH 114 Introductory Physics 2 (4 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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.