List of Selectives and Advanced Selectives (2024)

Medical Sciences Program

Faculty of Science

List of Selectives and Advanced Selectives (2024)

Medical Sciences Honours students must include in their program at least 21 credit hours in the following courses. Students not in the honours program must include at least 24 credit hours of these courses. In both cases, at least one of the Selectives must be an Advanced Selective. For course descriptions, please click on the course numbers, highlighted in green.

NOTE: If the course does not appear on the timetable, it is not offered that year

Note that a Selective is a course from a predetermined list, provided by the program, whereas an Elective is any course at 黄色直播. In cases where prerequisites for Selectives are not offered as Medical Sciences core courses, Elective space can be used to fulfill these prerequisites.

Selectives

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

- Introductory Biochemistry Lab
- Intermediary Metabolism
- Nucleic Acid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
鈥� Introduction to Biotechnology (new Fall 2024)
- Laboratory Techniques in Biomedical Sciences听(replaced by 3501 in 2024/25)
- Biomolecular Chemistry

Biology

- Animal Diversity
- Evolution
- Introductory Ecology
- Molecular Evolution
- Developmental Biology
- Parasitology
鈥� Vertebrate Functional Morphology
- Medical Entomology (only offered in summer)
/ANAT 3421- Comparative Vertebrate Histology (not offered in 2024/25)
/ - Introduction to Human Histology

Biomedical Engineering

- Technology in Medicine

Chemistry

- Introduction to Physical Chemistry I
- Introduction to Physical Chemistry II
- Chemistry of Living Systems

Economics

- Perspectives in Health Economics (not offered in 2024/25)
- Topics in Health Economics听(not offered in 2024/25)

Environmental Science

鈥� Environment and Human Health

Health

- Centering Black Canadian Health
鈥� Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples鈥� Health & Healing

Humanities and Social Sciences

- Literature, Health, & Healing听(not offered on 2024/25)
- Literature & the History of Medicine (not offered on 2024/25)
- Health and Disease in Medieval Society听(not offered on 2024/25)
- Origins of Modern Medicine
鈥� The Beginnings of Western Medicine: The Birth of the Body
/ 鈥� Biopolitics: Human Nature in Contemporary Thought (not offered on 2024/25)
- Introduction to the History of Science I: From the Ancients to the Birth of the Modern
- Introduction to the History of Science II: From the Birth of the Modern to the Present听
- The Body in Early Modern Europe听
- Human Experiments听(not offered in 2024/25)
-听Plagues and People
- In Search of the Philosopher's Stone: The History of European Alchemy听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Global Health in the 21st Century
- Ethics and Health Care: Patient Care
- Ethics in Health Care: Social Policy听(can only take one of 2805 or 2810 as selective, other as core)
- Philosophy of Medicine听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Biomedicine and the Illness Experience听(not offered in 2024/25)
- The Social Organization of Health Care听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Health, Illness, and the World System听(not offered in 2024/25)
/GWST 3800 - Gender and Health (not offered in 2024/25)
- Aging Cross Culturally听(not offered in 2024/25)
- The Sociology of Addiction/ Drugs, Health, and Society (not offered in 2024/25)
- Qualitative and Field Methods

Kinesiology

- Introduction to Biomechanics (exclusion with PHYC 2610)
- Psychology of Sport & Physical Activity听

Mathematics

- Differential and Integral Calculus II

Medical Neuroscience

- Introduction to Human Histology
/BIOL 3421 - Comparative Vertebrate Histology听(not offered in 2024/25)

Microbiology & Immunology

- Laboratory Methods in Microbiology & Immunology
- Virology
- Physiology of Prokaryotic Cell
- Medical Immunology听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Clinical Microbiology

Neuroscience

- Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
// - Cellular Neuroscience
/PSYO 3043 - Neurobiology of Learning听(not offered in 2024/25)
/ - Hormones & Behaviour
/ - Principles of Human Neuropsychology
/ - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease
- Genes, Brain and Behaviour

Pharmacology

- Pharmacology of Medicinal Herbs and Fungi

Physics

- Introduction to Physics (exclusion with PHYC 1320)
- Physics In and Around You II (exclusion with PHYC 1290)
- Physics of Biological and Medical Technology听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Introduction to Biomechanics (exclusion with KINE 2465; not offered in 2024/25)

Physiology & Biophysics

// -听Cellular Neuroscience
- Exercise Physiology in Health & Disease
- Human Cell Physiology
- Sensory Physiology听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Core Concepts in Medical Physiology (excluson with听PHYL 4504)
- Directed Project in Physiology
- Human Physiology Lab听

Psychology

- Social Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
/ - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- Adult Psychopathology
- Forensic Psychology
// 鈥� Cellular Neuroscience
- Brain & Behaviour (not offered in 2024/25)
/NESC 3043 - Neurobiology of Learning听(not offered in 2024/25)
- Childhood Psychopathology (Instructor Permission)
/ - Hormones & Behaviour
- Principles of Human Neuropsychology
/ - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Science

(0 credit) & - Becoming a Scientist I & II
- Experiential Learning in Medical Sciences
-听Communicating Science to Non-Scientists

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Advanced Selectives