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.
Selectives:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biology
Biomedical Engineering
Chemistry
- CHEM 2301: Introduction to Physical Chemistry I
- CHEM 2304: Introduction to Physical Chemistry II
- CHEM 3601: Chemistry of Living Systems
Economics
Environmental Science
Health
Humanities and Social Sciences
- ENGL 2030: Literature, Health, and Healing
- ENGL 3320: Literature and the History of Medicine
- HIST 3916: Health and Disease in Medieval Society
- HSTC 2102: Origins of Modern Medicine
- HSTC 2202: The Beginnings of Western Medicine: The Birth of the Body
- HSTC 2206: Biopolitics: Human Nature In Contemporary Thought
- HSTC 2211: Introduction to History of Science I: From the Ancients to the Birth of the Modern
- HSTC 2212: Introduction to History of Science II: From the Birth of Modern to the Present
- HSTC 2350: The Body in Early Modern Europe
- HSTC 3101/CTMP 3204: Human Experiments
- HSTC 3102: Plagues and People
- HSTC 3121: In Search of the Philosopher's Stone: The History of European Alchemy
- INTD 3115: Global Health in the 21st Century
- PHIL 2805: Ethics and Health Care: Patient Care (students can only count PHIL 2805 or 2810 as selective and other as core ethics course)
- PHIL 2810: Ethics and Health Care: Social Policy (students can only count PHIL 2805 or 2810 as selective and other as core ethics course)
- PHIL 3800: Philosophy of Medicine
- SOSA 2502: Biomedicine and the Illness Experience
- SOSA 3135: The Social Organization of Health Care
- SOSA 3143: Health, Illness, and the World System
- SOSA 3145/GWST 3145: Gender and Health
- SOSA 3147: Aging Cross Culturally
- SOSA 3148: Drugs, Health, and Society
- SOSA 3403: Qualitative and Field Methods
Interprofessional Health Education
- IPHE 2201/IDHS 2201: Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples' Health and Healing
Kinesiology
Mathematics
- MATH 1010: Differential and Integral Calculus II
Medical Neuroscience
- ANAT 2160/BIOL 3430: Introduction to Human Histology
- ANAT 3421/BIOL 3421: Comparative Vertebrate Histology
Microbiology and Immunology
Neuroscience
Physics
Physiology and Biophysics
- PHYL 2570: Cellular Neurophysiology
- PHYL 3120: Exercise Physiology in Health & Disease
- PHYL 3320: Human Cell Physiology
- PHYL 3420: Sensory Physiology
- PHYL 3520: Core Concepts in Medical Physiology
- PHYL 3600: Directed Project in Physiology
- PHYL 3620: Human Physiology Lab
Psychology
Science
- SCIE 2111/2112: Becoming a Scientist I & II
- SCIE 3211 Communicating Science to Non-Scientists
- SCIE 3100: Experiential Learning in Medical Sciences
Advanced Selectives:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biology
Computer Science
- CSCI 4180: Introduction to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- CSCI 4181: Algorithms in Bioinformatics
Humanities and Social Sciences
- PHIL 4801: Topics in Ethics and Healthcare (offered every 3-4yr)
- POLI 4260: The Politics of Health Care
Medical Neuroscience
Microbiology and Immunology
- MICI 4027: Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer
- MICI 4033: Advanced Microbial Genetics
- MICI 4100: Processes & Mediators of Inflammation
- MICI 4114: Advanced Topics in Molecular & Medical Virology
- MICI 4116: Current Topics in Mucosal Immunology
- MICI 4302: Clinical and Molecular Immunology
Neuroscience
Pathology
- PATH 4100: Critical Thinking in Neuropathology
Pharmacology
Physiology and Biophysics
Psychology
Science