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2015-2016

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Science Academic Plans

Science and Business

Honours Co-operative Science and Business/Biotechnology

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* Biology Electives

BIOL electives: BIOL 345, BIOL 431, BIOL 433, BIOL 434, BIOL 441, BIOL 442, BIOL 444BIOL 483

** Electives

Of these three electives, one must be a business elective, and the remaining two must be either business electives or BIOL electives as listed. Business electives are normally chosen from the following: ACTSC 231, ACTSC 446, ECON 220, ECON 361, ECON 372, HRM 200, HRM 301, MSCI 311, MSCI 432, STAT 231, STAT 333. HRM 200 and MSCI 311 are recommended. Other courses may be used as substitutes on approval of the Undergraduate Advisor.

Course sequencing and prerequisite information is available on the Science and Business website.


Year 1A (Fall)

CHEM 120/CHEM 120L Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
AFM 131 Introduction to Business in North America
SCBUS 123 Science and Business Workshop 1
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
BIOL 130 Introductory Cell Biology

Year 1B (Winter)

CHEM 123/CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
SCBUS 122 Management of Business Organizations
CS 100 Introduction to Computing through Applications
BIOL 239 Genetics
Free Elective (0.5 unit)
ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics


Year 2A (Fall)

BIOL 240/BIOL 240L Fundamentals of Microbiology/Laboratory
CHEM 266/CHEM 266L Basic Organic Chemistry 1/Laboratory
AFM 123 Accounting Information for Managers
BIOL 309 Analytical Methods in Molecular Biology
SCBUS 223 Science and Business Workshop 2

Year 2B (Spring)

BIOL 241 Introduction to Applied Microbiology
BIOL 308 Principles of Molecular Biology
ECON 102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 221 Statistics for Economists
Business Elective (0.5 unit)


Year 3A (Winter)

BIOL 331 Advanced Cell Biology
AFM 231 Business Law
CHEM 237/CHEM 237L Introductory Biochemistry/Laboratory
SCBUS 225 Organizational Behaviour
ECON 371 Business Finance 1

Year 3B (Fall)

BIOL 342 Molecular Biotechnology 1
BIOL Elective* (0.5 unit)
CHEM Elective (Must be a 200-, 300- or 400-level CHEM)
ECON 344 Marketing: Principles of Marketing and Consumer Economics
SCBUS 323 Technology Development Workshop 3


Year 4A (Fall)

BIOL 443 Fermentation Biotechnology
BIOL Elective* (0.5 unit)
SCBUS 423 Senior Honours Science and Business Workshop 4
Electives**(1.0 unit)

Year 4B (Winter)

BIOL 432 Molecular Biotechnology 2
BIOL Elective* (1.5 units)
Elective** (0.5 unit)


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