Advisors: See Faculty of Science, Academic Advisors.
Although this Specialization is set up in Co-operative format, it is also available for students in the Regular system of study. In Years One and Two, this Specialization follows the same sequence of courses as in the Honours Co-operative Biochemistry Academic Plan, except that students must include BIOL 241 (Note: BIOL 240L is a pre-requisite for BIOL 241, therefore BIOL 241 should be taken in either the 2B or 3A terms).
Year 3A (Winter)
BIOL 331 Advanced Cell Biology
CHEM 357 Physical Biochemistry
CHEM 360/CHEM 360L Synthetic Organic Chemistry/Laboratory
Two Electives (1.0 unit) from Groups A, B and C
Year 3B (Fall)
BIOL 342 Molecular Biotechnology 1
BIOL 354 Environmental Toxicology 1
CHEM 331 Fundamentals of Metabolism 1
CHEM 335L Advanced Biochemistry Laboratory
STAT 202 Introductory Statistics for Scientists
or MATH 228 Differential Equations for Physics and Chemistry (if not completed in Year 2)
Note
Year Three and Four electives: 4.5 units from Groups A, B, and C, with at least 2.5 units from Groups A and B, of which not less than 1.5 units are from Group A. At least 1.5 units must be BIOL and 1.0 unit must be CHEM.
Year 4A (Fall)
BIOL 439 Biochemistry of Natural Products
BIOL 443 Fermentation Biotechnology
Three Electives (1.5 units) from Groups A, B and C
Year 4B (Winter)
BIOL 432 Molecular Biotechnology 2
Four Electives (2.0 units) from Groups A, B and C
Note
Year Three and Four electives: 4.5 units from Groups A, B, and C, with at least 2.5 units from Groups A and B, of which not less than 1.5 units are from Group A. At least 1.5 units must be BIOL and 1.0 unit must be CHEM.
Group A
BIOL 308, BIOL 335L, BIOL 365, , BIOL 382, BIOL 428, BIOL 431, BIOL 433, BIOL 434, BIOL 438, BIOL 441, BIOL 483, BIOL 486, BIOL 499A/BIOL 499B
CHEM 381, CHEM 430, CHEM 432, CHEM 433, CHEM 494A/CHEM 494B
Group B
BIOL 303, BIOL 323, BIOL 345, BIOL 359, BIOL 370, BIOL 371, BIOL 373, BIOL 442, BIOL 444, BIOL 447, BIOL 448, BIOL 473, BIOL 477L, BIOL 484
CHEM 221, CHEM 310, CHEM 313, CHEM 323, CHEM 404, CHEM 410, CHEM 420, CHEM 460, CHEM 464
Group C
Free electives (not more than 2.0 units)