Honours Bachelor of Science (Hons. B. Sc.) in Biology and Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour

Honours Biology and Psychology is designed for students with broad interests in the biological and neurosciences who want the freedom to choose the best courses from the Department of Biology and the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB). The program is uniquely interdisciplinary. Students can merge leading-edge knowledge from both fields, combining molecular biology, development, or ecology with the latest ideas in cognition, learning, or neurophysiology to gain a truly ‘big picture’ perspective of the living world. The fourth year research thesis may be taken under the supervision of either a Biology or PNB faculty member. Students can gain exciting hands-on experience in topics as diverse as clinical studies of child development, fieldwork in behavioural ecology, cellular neuroscience, or the molecular biology of social learning and memory. Because the program provides students with an elite double-major honours degree in Biology and PNB, it facilitates access to graduate schools in either discipline and to an array of clinical or professional programs (e.g., law, medicine, dental, clinical psychology), and it opens doors to careers in university or industrial research (e.g., pharmaceutics), genetic counselling, or education. BIOLOGY COURSE LIST BIOCHEM 2EE3, 3G03, 3H03, 4E03, 4M03, 4Q03; BIOPHYS 2A03, 3D03; BIOLOGY 2A03, 2B03, 2D03, 2EE3, 2F03, 2L03, all Level III and IV Biology and Molecular Biology courses; CHEMBIO 3BM3; HTH SCI 3I03, 3K03, 4BB3, 4II3. PSYCHOLOGY COURSE LIST KINESIOL 3E03; LIFE SCI 3BB3, 3E03, 3K03; LINGUIST 2PS3, 3C03, 3NL3; MUSICCOG 2MP3, all Level III & IV MUSICCOG courses; NEUROSCI 3J03, 3SN3; PNB 2XD3, all Level III and IV PNB courses; all Level III and IV PSYCH courses (except PSYCH 3AB3, 3AC3, 3AG3, 3BA3, 3CB3, 3CD3 may only be used as elective credit.)