List of Selectives and Advanced Selectives

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.

Note that a Selective is a course from a predetermined list, provided by the program, whereas an Elective is any course at Dalhousie University. In cases where prerequisites for Selectives are not offered as Medical Sciences core courses, Elective space can be used to fulfill these prerequisites. If a course does not appear on the academic timetable, it is not offered that year.

Selectives:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• BIOC 2610.03: Introductory Biochemistry Lab
• BIOC 3300.03: Intermediary Metabolism
• BIOC 3400.03: Nucleic Acid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• BIOC 3501.03: Introduction to Biotechnology
• BIOC 3610.03: Research Methods in Biomedical Sciences (replaced by 3501 in 2024/25)
• BIOC 3700.03: Biomolecular Chemistry

Biology

• BIOL 2003.03: Animal Diversity
• BIOL 2040.03: Evolution
• BIOL 2060.03: Introductory Ecology
• BIOL 3046.03: Molecular Evolution
• BIOL 3050.03: Developmental Biology
• BIOL 3322.03: Parasitology
• BIOL 3326.03: Vertebrate Functional Morphology
• BIOL 3328.03: Medical Entomology (only offered in Summer)
• BIOL 3421.03/ANAT 3421.03: Comparative Vertebrate Histology
• BIOL 3430.03/ANAT 2160.03: Introduction to Human Histology

Biomedical Engineering

• BMNG 3000.03: Technology in Medicine

Chemistry

• CHEM 2301.03: Introduction to Physical Chemistry I
• CHEM 2304.03: Introduction to Physical Chemistry II
• CHEM 3601.03: Chemistry of Living Systems

Disability Management

• DISM 3010.03: Introduction to Disability and Disability Management

Economics

• ECON 2231.03: Perspectives in Health Economics
• ECON 3231.03: Topics in Health Economics

Environmental Science

• ENVS 3400.03: Environment and Human Health

Health

• HLTH 2000.03: Centring Black Canadian Health
• HLTH 2201.03: Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples’ Health & Healing

Humanities and Social Sciences

• CLAS 2888.03: Greek and Latin Terminology for the Medical Sciences
• ENGL 2030.03: Literature, Health, and Healing
• ENGL 3320.03: Literature and the History of Medicine
• HIST 3916.03: Health and Disease in Medieval Society
• HSTC 2102.03: Origins of Modern Medicine
• HSTC 2202.03: The Beginnings of Western Medicine: The Birth of the Body
• HSTC 2206.03/CTMP 2203.03: Biopolitics: Human Nature In Contemporary Thought
• HSTC 2211.03: Introduction to History of Science I: From the Ancients to the Birth of the Modern
• HSTC 2212.03: Introduction to History of Science II: From the Birth of Modern to the Present
• HSTC 2350.03: The Body in Early Modern Europe
• HSTC 3101.03/CTMP 3204.03: Human Experiments
• HSTC 3102.03: Plagues and People
• HSTC 3103.03: Medicine in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• HSTC 3121.03: In Search of the Philosopher's Stone: The History of European Alchemy
• INTD 3115.03: Global Health in the 21st Century
• PHIL 2805.03: Ethics and Health Care: Patient Care (can only take one of 2805 or 2810 as selective, other as core)
• PHIL 2810.03: Ethics and Health Care: Social Policy (can only take one of 2805 or 2810 as selective, other as core)
• PHIL 3800.03: Philosophy of Medicine
• SOSA 2502.03: Biomedicine and the Illness Experience
• SOSA 3135.03: The Social Organization of Health Care
• SOSA 3143.03: Health, Illness, and the World System
• SOSA 3145.03/GWST 3800.03: Gender and Health
• SOSA 3147.03: Aging Cross Culturally
• SOSA 3148.03: The Sociology of Addiction/Drugs, Health, and Society
• SOSA 3403.03: Qualitative and Field Methods

Kinesiology

• KINE 2465.03: Introductory Biomechanics (exclusion with PHYC 2610.03)
• KINE 3485.03: Psychology of Sport & Physical Activity

Mathematics

• MATH 1010.03: Differential and Integral Calculus II

Medical Neuroscience

• ANAT 2160.03/BIOL 3430.03: Introduction to Human Histology
• ANAT 3421.03/BIOL 3421.03: Comparative Vertebrate Histology

Microbiology and Immunology

• MICI 2400.03: Laboratory Methods in Microbiology and Immunology
• MICI 3114.03: Virology
• MICI 3119.03: Physiology of Prokaryotic Cell
• MICI 4115.03: Medical Immunology
• MICI 4218.03: Clinical Microbiology

Neuroscience

• NESC 2130.03/PSYO 2130.03: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
• NESC 2570.03/PSYO 2570.03/PHYL 2570.03: Cellular Neuroscience
• NESC 3043.03/PSYO 3043.03: Neurobiology of Learning
• NESC 3170.03/PSYO 3170.03: Hormones and Behaviour
• NESC 3227.03/PSYO 3227.03: Principles of Human Neuropsychology
• NESC 3271.03/PSYO 3271.03: Developmental Origins of Health & Disease
• NESC 3670.03: Genes, Brain and Behaviour

Pharmacology

• PHAC 3333.03: Pharmacology of Medicinal Herbs and Fungi

Physics

• PHYC 1290.03: Introduction to Physics (exclusion with PHYC 1320.03)
• PHYC 1320.03: Physics In and Around You II (exclusion with PHYC 1290.03)
• PHYC 2250.03: Physics of Biological and Medical Technology
• PHYC 2610.03: Introduction to Biomechanics (exclusion with KINE 2465.03)

Physiology and Biophysics

• PHYL 2570.03/NESC 2570.03/PSYO 2570.03: Cellular Neurophysiology
• PHYL 3120.03: Exercise Physiology in Health & Disease
• PHYL 3320.03: Human Cell Physiology
• PHYL 3420.03: Sensory Physiology
• PHYL 3520.03: Core Concepts in Medical Physiology (exclusion with PHYL 4504.03)
• PHYL 3600.03: Directed Project in Physiology
• PHYL 3601.03: Directed Project in Physiology
• PHYL 3620.03: Human Physiology Lab

Psychology 

• PSYO 2080.03: Social Psychology
• PSYO 2090.03: Developmental Psychology
• PSYO 2130.03/NESC 2130.03: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
• PSYO 2220.03: Adult Psychopathology
• PSYO 2444.03: Forensic Psychology
• PSYO 2570.03/NESC 2570.03/PHYL 2570.03: Cellular Neuroscience
• PSYO 2770.03: Brain & Behaviour
• PSYO 3043.03/NESC 3043.03: Neurobiology of Learning
• PSYO 3129.03: Childhood Psychopathology
• PSYO 3170.03/NESC 3170.03: Hormones and Behaviour
• PSYO 3227.03/NESC 3227.03: Principles of Human Neuropsychology
• PSYO 3271.03/NESC 3271.03: Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Science 

• SCIE 2111.00 (0 credit) & SCIE 2112.03: Becoming a Scientist I & II
• SCIE 3100.03: Experiential Learning in Medical Sciences
• SCIE 3211.03: Communicating Science to Non-Scientists

Advanced Selectives:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• BIOC 4010.03: Bioinformatics
• BIOC 4302.03: Biochemistry of Lipids
• BIOC 4305.03: Mechanisms of Signal Transduction
• BIOC 4403.03: Genes and Genomes
• BIOC 4404.03: Gene Expression
• BIOC 4501.03: Medical Biotechnology I
• BIOC 4700.03: Proteins
• BIOC 4701.03: Enzymes
• BIOC 4813.03: Biochemistry of Clinical Disorders

Biology

• BIOL 4020.03: Advanced Cell Biology

Computer Science

• CSCI 4180.03: Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• CSCI 4181.03: Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Humanities and Social Sciences

• PHIL 4801.03: Topics in Ethics and Healthcare (offered every 3-4 years)
• POLI 4260.03: The Politics of Health Care

Medical Neuroscience

• ANAT 4010.03: Advanced Human Anatomy

Microbiology and Immunology

• MICI 4027.03: Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer
• MICI 4033.03: Advanced Microbial Genetics
• MICI 4100.03: Processes & Mediators of Inflammation
• MICI 4114.03: Advanced Topics in Molecular & Medical Virology
• MICI 4116.03: Current Topics in Mucosal Immunology
• MICI 4302.03: Clinical and Molecular Immunology

Neuroscience

• NESC 3180.03/PSYO 3180.03: Psychoneuroimmunology/Ecological Immunology
• NESC 3970.03/PSYO 3970.03: Molecular Neuroscience
• NESC 4185.03/PHYL 4000.03: Current Advances in Synaptic Function or Plasticity

Pathology

• PATH 4035.03: Human Genetics
• PATH 4100.03: Critical Thinking in Neuropathology

Pharmacology

• PHAC 4001.03: Pharmacology II (not offered anymore)
• PHAC 4403.03: Systems Pharmacology I
• PHAC 4409.03: Systems Pharmacology II

Physiology and Biophysics

• PHYL 4000.03/NESC 4185.03: Current Advances in Synaptic Function and Plasticity
• PHYL 4324.03: Endocrine Physiology
• PHYL 4504.03: Respiratory Physiology (exclusion with PHYL 3520.03)
• PHYL 4680.03: Cardiovascular Physiology

Psychology

• PSYO 3180.03/NESC 3180.03: Psychoneuroimmunology/Ecological Immunology
• PSYO 3970.03/NESC 3970.03: Molecular Neuroscience

Science

• SCIE 4101.03 & SCIE 4102.03: Directed Project in Medical Sciences I & II
• SCIE 4444.03: Leadership in Science (practicum must be health-related)