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Foundation Year Program (30 credits)

Offered by: Agricultural & Env.Sc.-Dean     Degree: Bachelor of Science (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

Program Requirements

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

All majors except Agricultural Economics:

Required Courses (27 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.

  • 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 (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.

Elective Course (3 credits)

Course selection is done in consultation with the program adviser.

Agricultural Economics Major

Required Courses (21 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • AGEC 200 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits)

    Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

    Overview

    Agricultural Economics : 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.

    Terms: Fall 2024

    Instructors: Harou, Aurelie (Fall)

    • Fall

    • 3 lectures

  • BREE 103 Linear Algebra (3 credits)

    Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

    Overview

    Bioresource Engineering : 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.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Titley-Péloquin, David (Winter)

    • 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

Complementary Courses (3-6 credits)

3-6 credits from the following:

  • AGEC 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits)

    Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

    Overview

    Agricultural Economics : 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.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Mukhopadhyay, Kakali (Winter)

    • Winter

    • 3 lectures

    • Prerequisite: AGEC 200 or equivalent

  • AGEC 231 Economic Systems of Agriculture (3 credits)

    Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

    Overview

    Agricultural Economics : 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.

    Terms: Winter 2025

    Instructors: Doidge, Mary (Winter)

    • Winter

    • 3 lectures

    • Prerequisite: AGEC 200 or equivalent

Course selection is done in consultation with the program adviser.

Elective Courses

(3-6 credits)

Course selection is done in consultation with the program adviser.

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