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Foundation year

If you are entering university for the first time from a high school system (outside of the Quebec CEGEP system), you will need to complete 30 base credits of courses in your first year (known as a foundation year), before completing the credits that make up your major and any specialization/concentration/option.

ɬÀï·¬ students completing their foundation year at the Macdonald Campus benefit from small class sizes and a dedicated foundation year advisor.

The courses you need to register for depend on the degree you have been accepted into, as listed below.


Course selection

B.Sc. (Ag.Env.Sc.)

Fall (15 credits)

  • AEBI 120. General Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
    • Fall
    • 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab per week
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have obtained CEGEP competency 00UK.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AECH 110. General Chemistry 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures, one 3 hour lab, and one tutorial hour
    • Restriction: Note open to students who have taken FDSC 110.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 101. Calculus 1 with Precalculus.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: a course in functions

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEPH 112. Introductory Physics 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    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.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 101 or PHYS 131 or AEPH 113 or CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent. Not open to students in Bioresource Engineering.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Winter (15 credits)

  • AECH 111. General Chemistry 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    Thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, aqueous solution chemistry including applications to acids, bases and buffers and selected topics in organic chemistry.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 102. Calculus 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    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.
    • Winter
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEPH 114. Introductory Physics 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    Electric and magnetic properties of matter: electrostatics, electric currents, the link between electric and magnetic phenomena, geometrical optics, interference diffraction.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • Elective (to be selected in consultation with an academic advisor during the fall term)

B.Sc. (Ag.Env.Sc.)—Agricultural Economics major

Fall (14 credits)

  • AEBI 120. General Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
    • Fall
    • 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab per week
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have obtained CEGEP competency 00UK.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AECH 110. General Chemistry 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures, one 3 hour lab, and one tutorial hour
    • Restriction: Note open to students who have taken FDSC 110.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 101. Calculus 1 with Precalculus.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: a course in functions

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AGEC 200. Principles of Microeconomics.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    The field of economics as it relates to the activities of individual consumers, firms and organizations. Emphasis is on the application of economic principles and concepts to everyday decision making and to the analysis of current economic issues.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Winter (16 credits)

  • AEMA 102. Calculus 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    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.
    • Winter
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • BREE 103. Linear Algebra.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants, geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot and cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear (in)dependence, bases. lntroduction to computer-based mathematical tools.
    • 3 lectures and 1 conference
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Math 133 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent
    • Prerequisite: AEMA 100 or equivalent course in functions/precalculus

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • One or two of the following:
    • AGEC 201. Principles of Macroeconomics.

      Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

      Credits: 3
      Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
      Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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      Description

      The overall economic system, how it works, and the instruments used to solve social problems. Emphasis will be on decision-making involving the entire economic system and segments of it.
      • Winter
      • 3 lectures
      • Prerequisite: AGEC 200 or equivalent

      Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

    • AGEC 231. Economic Systems of Agriculture.

      Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

      Credits: 3
      Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
      Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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      Description

      The structure and organization of Canada's agriculture-food system, the operation, financing, linkages, and functions of its components. Focus to be on management of the various components and the entire system, types of problems confronted now and in the future.
      • Winter
      • 3 lectures
      • Prerequisite: AGEC 200 or equivalent

      Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • One or two electives (to be selected in consultation with an academic advisor during the fall term)

B.Sc. (Nutritional Sciences) AND B.Sc. (Food Science)/B.Sc. (Nutritional Sciences) concurrent

Fall (15 credits)

  • AEBI 120. General Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
    • Fall
    • 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab per week
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have obtained CEGEP competency 00UK.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AECH 110. General Chemistry 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures, one 3 hour lab, and one tutorial hour
    • Restriction: Note open to students who have taken FDSC 110.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 101. Calculus 1 with Precalculus.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: a course in functions

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEPH 112. Introductory Physics 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 101 or PHYS 131 or AEPH 113 or CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent. Not open to students in Bioresource Engineering.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Winter (15 credits)

  • AEBI 122. Cell Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    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.
    • Restriction(s): Open only to Freshman students in FAES; not equivalent to LSCI 202; not open to students who have taken CEGEP competency OOXU or equivalent, or BIOL 112.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 102. Calculus 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Winter
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEPH 114. Introductory Physics 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    Electric and magnetic properties of matter: electrostatics, electric currents, the link between electric and magnetic phenomena, geometrical optics, interference diffraction.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • FDSC 230. Organic Chemistry.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Food Science&Agr.Chemistry (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026
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    Description

    Atomic and molecular structure, modern concepts of bonding, overview of functional groups, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, mechanisms and reactions of aliphatic compounds.
    • Fall or Winter
    • 3 lectures and one 3-hour lab
    • Prerequisite(s): AECH 110 or CHEM 110 or equivalent of CHEM NYA in CEGEP.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

B.Sc. (Food Science)

Fall (15 credits)

  • AEBI 120. General Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
    • Fall
    • 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab per week
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have obtained CEGEP competency 00UK.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AECH 110. General Chemistry 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures, one 3 hour lab, and one tutorial hour
    • Restriction: Note open to students who have taken FDSC 110.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 101. Calculus 1 with Precalculus.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: a course in functions

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEPH 112. Introductory Physics 1.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 101 or PHYS 131 or AEPH 113 or CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent. Not open to students in Bioresource Engineering.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

Winter (15 credits)

  • AEBI 122. Cell Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Restriction(s): Open only to Freshman students in FAES; not equivalent to LSCI 202; not open to students who have taken CEGEP competency OOXU or equivalent, or BIOL 112.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AECH 111. General Chemistry 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    Thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, aqueous solution chemistry including applications to acids, bases and buffers and selected topics in organic chemistry.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEMA 102. Calculus 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    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.
    • Winter
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

  • AEPH 114. Introductory Physics 2.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
    View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.

    Description

    Electric and magnetic properties of matter: electrostatics, electric currents, the link between electric and magnetic phenomena, geometrical optics, interference diffraction.
    • 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.

    Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.

B.Eng. (Bioresource)

Fall (15 credits)

  • AEBI 120. General Biology.

    Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.

    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions.
    • 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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  • AECH 110. General Chemistry 1.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table.
    • 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.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    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.
    • Fall
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: a course in functions

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  • AEPH 113. Physics 1.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Fall 2025
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    Description

    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. Includes calculus-based applications.
    • Three 1-hour lectures, one 2-hour lab, and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
    • Corequisite: AEMA 101 or equivalent.
    • Note: Not open to students who have taken AEPH 112, PHYS 101 or PHYS 131, and open to students in Bioresource Engineering
    • Restrictions: Not open to students who have passed AEPH 112 or obtained CEGEP competency 00UR. Open only to students in Bioresource Engineering.

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Winter (15 credits)

  • AECH 111. General Chemistry 2.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    Thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, aqueous solution chemistry including applications to acids, bases and buffers and selected topics in organic chemistry.
    • 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.

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  • AEMA 102. Calculus 2.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    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.
    • Winter
    • 3 lectures
    • Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent

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  • AEPH 115. Physics 2.

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    Credits: 4
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    Electric forces, electric fields, electric potential. Current. Electric circuits. Magnetic fields and forces. Electromagnetic induction. Electromagnetic waves. Geometrical and physical optics. Includes calculus-based applications.
    • Three 1-hour lectures, one 2-hour lab, and one 1-hour tutorial per week
    • Prerequisites: AEPH 112 or AEPH 113 or PHYS 101or PHYS 131 or equivalent.
    • Corequisite: AEMA 102 or equivalent
    • Note: Not open to students who have taken AEPH 114, PHYS 102 or PHYS 142, and open only to students in Bioresource Engineering
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have passed AEPH 114 or obtained CEGEP competencies 00US and 00UT. Open only to students in Bioresource Engineering.

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  • BREE 103. Linear Algebra.

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    Credits: 3
    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Faculty of Agric Environ Sci)
    Terms Offered: Winter 2026
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    Description

    Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants, geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot and cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear (in)dependence, bases. lntroduction to computer-based mathematical tools.
    • 3 lectures and 1 conference
    • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Math 133 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent
    • Prerequisite: AEMA 100 or equivalent course in functions/precalculus

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