Certain 600-level courses may be considered to fulfill program requirements. Consult the department for further information.
*A maximum of two of these courses may be counted towards the field.
**Applicability to the field depends upon the actual course content. Approval will have to be granted on an individual basis. Check the list published by the Department each February.
***No more than one FCE of such courses (approved by the Department prior to registering in the course) can be counted towards the Major Field.
Required Courses - Major Program
See also 3.4 Program Requirements, in particular, the regulations on the distribution of courses at the 200 level and above allowed in a program and on the List of Science-Equivalent Courses in Other Faculties (Table I).
Note: Commencing Fall 2011, Biology 241/243 replaced Biology 231/233 as the core introductory departmental courses, serving as prerequisites for the 300-level core biology courses and others.
4.0 FCE - Breadth requirement: Options from outside the Faculty of Science**
4.0 FCE - Options
*Check details of other programs in the Department of Biological Sciences to see where this option is allowed.
**These 4.0 FCE options are selected from faculties outside the Faculty of Science. Of these 4.0 FCE students must select at least 1.0 FCE from the Faculty of Arts. (see 3.4.B.(d) Breadth requirement in Section 3 Faculty Regulations).
Required Courses - Honours Program
Note: Commencing Fall 2011, Biology 241/243 replaced Biology 231/233 as the core introductory departmental courses, serving as prerequisites for the 300-level core biology courses and others.
4.0 FCE - Breadth requirement: Options from outside the Faculty of Science**
3.0 FCE - Options
*Check the details of other programs in the Department of Biological Sciences to see where this option is allowed.
**These 4.0 FCE options are selected from faculties outside the Faculty of Science. Of these 4.0 FCE students must select at least 1.0 FCE from the Faculty of Arts. (see 3.4.B.(d) Breadth requirement in Section 3 Faculty Regulations).
Recommendations
This listing provides recommended options for students wishing to create a program of courses that explores their particular areas of interest and supports their career goals. It is not expected that students will be able to include all of the suggestions in one area in their programs; neither is the list exhaustive nor exclusive. Many courses have prerequisites that are not listed.
Students wishing to emphasize evolutionary, behavioural and population ecology are advised to take Biology 401, Ecology 429 and 439 one year and Ecology 417, 419 and 501 the next year. Those students wishing to emphasize community and ecosystems ecology are advised to take Biology 401, Ecology 417 and 419 one year, and Ecology 429, 439 and 501 the next year.
Courses in Marine Science may be taken for credit during the summer and/or students may elect to spend the fall of either the third or fourth year attending the Bamfield Fall Program. Refer to the Marine Science course listings for details.
Suggested Program Sequence
Third Year
(Available to Honours students, and Major students after satisfactory completion of Biology 241, 243, 311, 313, 331 and 371.)
See the subsection on Co-operative Education/ Internship Programs in Section 3 (Faculty Regulations) and the major section on "Co-operative Education/Internship" of this Calendar.
Co-operative Education programs are five-year degree programs which include 16 months of supervised work experience in various industrial and government workplaces. Minimally, students must be in their second year in the Biological Sciences program with a grade point average of 2.30 before applying for admission to the BSc Ecology Co-operative Education program. A grade point average of 3.30 is required for entry into the BSc Honours Ecology Co-operative Education program. In addition, students must complete the courses outlined for the second year of the Ecology program with the same minimum grade point average before commencing the first co-operative education placement (the summer following second year).
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