Foundation Year Program (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) (45 credits)
Offered by: Agricultural & Env.Sc.-Dean (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Degree: Bachelor of Science (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
Program credit weight: 45
Program Description
The B.Sc.(Ag.Env.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).
All majors except Agricultural Economics:
Required Courses (27 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AEBI 120 | General Biology. | 3 |
General Biology. Terms offered: Fall 2025 An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions. | ||
| AECH 110 | General Chemistry 1. | 4 |
General Chemistry 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table. | ||
| AECH 111 | General Chemistry 2. | 4 |
General Chemistry 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, aqueous solution chemistry including applications to acids, bases and buffers and selected topics in organic chemistry. | ||
| AEMA 101 | Calculus 1 with Precalculus. | 4 |
Calculus 1 with Precalculus. Terms offered: Fall 2025 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. | ||
| AEMA 102 | Calculus 2. | 4 |
Calculus 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 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. | ||
| AEPH 112 | Introductory Physics 1. | 4 |
Introductory Physics 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 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. | ||
| AEPH 114 | Introductory Physics 2. | 4 |
Introductory Physics 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Electric and magnetic properties of matter: electrostatics, electric currents, the link between electric and magnetic phenomena, geometrical optics, interference diffraction. | ||
Elective Course (3 credits)
Course selection is done in consultation with the program advisor.
Agricultural Economics Major:
Required Courses (21 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AEBI 120 | General Biology. | 3 |
General Biology. Terms offered: Fall 2025 An introduction to core themes in biological sciences, including cell structure and function, cell replication, gene expression, genetic inheritance, biodiversity, evolution, and ecological interactions. | ||
| AECH 110 | General Chemistry 1. | 4 |
General Chemistry 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The course will be a study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, valence theory and the periodic table. | ||
| AEMA 101 | Calculus 1 with Precalculus. | 4 |
Calculus 1 with Precalculus. Terms offered: Fall 2025 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. | ||
| AEMA 102 | Calculus 2. | 4 |
Calculus 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 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. | ||
| AGEC 200 | Principles of Microeconomics. 2 | 3 |
Principles of Microeconomics. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The field of economics as it relates to the activities of individual consumers, firms and organizations. Emphasis is on the application of economic principles and concepts to everyday decision making and to the analysis of current economic issues. | ||
| BREE 103 | Linear Algebra. | 3 |
Linear Algebra. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants, geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot and cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear (in)dependence, bases. lntroduction to computer-based mathematical tools. | ||
Complementary Courses (3-6 credits)
3-6 credits from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AGEC 201 | Principles of Macroeconomics. | 3 |
Principles of Macroeconomics. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The overall economic system, how it works, and the instruments used to solve social problems. Emphasis will be on decision-making involving the entire economic system and segments of it. | ||
| AGEC 231 | Economic Systems of Agriculture. | 3 |
Economic Systems of Agriculture. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The structure and organization of Canada's agriculture-food system, the operation, financing, linkages, and functions of its components. Focus to be on management of the various components and the entire system, types of problems confronted now and in the future. | ||
Course selection is done in consultation with the program advisor.
Elective Courses (3 or 6 credits)
Course selection is done in consultation with the program advisor.