Admission Requirements
Completion of a 3-year BSc Biology and Environmental Science program, with a minimum average of 70% in all principal courses and no mark less than 60% in any of these.
Students who do not fulfill the requirements specified for admission may be allowed to proceed to this honors degree only with the special permission of the Coordinators of the Honors Biology Program and the Environmental Science Program.
Fourth Year
- Environmental Science 494F/G
- Either 1.0 senior course from Groups C, D or E (as described in the three-year BSc Environmental Science program), or Environmental Science 350a/b, if not already taken, and a senior half-course from groups C, D, or E.
- 3.5 full-course equivalents selected from the following: Biology 203F, 204a, 213b, 216b, 217b, 284a, 304a, 320y, 328a, 331G, 332a, 335b, 336a, 345a, 346b, 351b, 355b, 359b, 362, 366b, 370b, 392a, 393b, 491E*, the former Biology 222b, 319a, Biophysics 467 a/b, Microbiology and Immunology 450a, Pharmacology 460a/b, 463a, Plant Sciences 402a, 403a, 404b, 408a, 418a, 450a*, 451b*, 452b, 490a, Zoology 420y, 421y, 434b*, 436G*, 441a*, 444a, 450a/b*, 451b*, 453b*
- The fourth year program must include 2 full courses or equivalent at the 400-level, 1.5 laboratory courses, at least one full-course equivalent from among courses offered by each of the Departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology and no more than two full-course equivalents from any one department. Students must also include at least one 400-level half-course requiring substantial communication skills, which must be chosen from those courses in the list above that are marked with an *. All proposed Honors Biology with Environmental Science programs must be approved by the Coordinators of the Honors Biology Program and the Environmental Science Program, respectively.