Foundation Year Program (30 credits)

Program Requirements

The B.Sc.(F.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).

Required Courses - Fall (14.5 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

• 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 (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.

• AGRI 195 Freshman Seminar 1 (0.5 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  Overview

  Agriculture : Members of the Faculty and/or Student Services will present seminars on resources available to help students develop the requisite skills to facilitate their transition into university life.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Restriction: Open only to Freshman (U0) students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking BREE 187.

Required Courses - Winter (12.5 credits)

• 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 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 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.

• AGRI 196 Freshman Seminar 2 (0.5 credits)

  Offered by: Bioresource Engineering (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  Overview

  Agriculture : Members of the Faculty will present seminars on topical issues about their areas of research.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Restriction: Open only to Freshman (U0) Students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking BREE 188.

Elective - Winter (3 credits)