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Program Requirements
If you are entering university for the first time from a high school system (outside of the Quebec CEGEP system) you will be required to complete a Freshman year of at least 30 credits as listed below.
Normally, students registered in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Freshman program may take a maximum of 8 credits outside the Faculty offerings to meet the requirements of the program. Permission to exceed this limit must be received from the Associate Dean (Student Affairs) prior to registration.
Note: If you are not certain that you have adequate math and/or physics skills to commence the freshman year you may wish to take preparatory courses prior to the normal Fall semester. You are encouraged to discuss your potential need with your academic adviser. Mathematical skill level will be determined during the first week of classes. Your Freshman adviser may recommend that you register for an additional weekly Pre-calculus Lab, of one credit, which may be applied towards the required credits of the degree program.
Freshman Adviser: Dr. Marcia Knutt
Macdonald-Stewart Building, Room 1-022
Telephone: 514-398-7976
Required Courses - Fall (14.5 credits)
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AEBI 120 General Biology (3 credits)
Overview
Biology (Agric & Envir Sc) : An introduction to the structure, function and adaptation of plants and animals in the biosphere.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Dunphy, Gary Brian (Fall)
- Fall
- 2 lectures and one 3-hour lab
- Restriction: Not open to students who have passed CEGEP objective 00UK or equivalent (formerly Biology 301)
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AECH 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 credits)
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 2010
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.
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AEMA 101 Calculus 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Mathematics (Agric&Envir Sci) : A review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivatives. Differentiation of elementary functions. Anti-differentiation. Applications.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hayes, John F (Fall)
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
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AEPH 113 Physics 1 (4 credits)
Overview
Physics (Agric & Envir Sci) : The basic laws and principles of Newtonian mechanics - oscillations and waves. Includes calculus-based applications.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Knutt, Marcia E (Fall)
- 3 lectures, one 2-hour lab and tutorial
- Prerequisite: Precalculus Mathematics AEMA 100 or equivalent. Preparatory Physics AEPH 110 or equivalent
- Corequisite: AEMA 101
- Note: Not open to students who have taken AEPH 112, PHYS 101 or PHYS 131, and open to students in Bioresource Engineering
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BREE 187 Freshman Seminar 1 (0.5 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : 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: Fall 2010
Instructors: Cherestes, Alice (Fall)
- Restrictions: Open to Freshman intending to enrol in B.Eng. Bioresources Engineering Major.
- Not open to students who have taken ABEN 187.
Required Courses - Winter (15.5 credits)
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AECH 111 General Chemistry 2 (4 credits)
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 2011
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.
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AEMA 102 Calculus 2 (4 credits)
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 2011
Instructors: Hayes, John F (Winter)
- 3 lectures
- Prerequisite: Calculus 1 or equivalent
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AEPH 115 Physics 2 (4 credits)
Overview
Physics (Agric & Envir Sci) : The basic laws of electricity and magnetism - geometrical and physical optics. Includes calculus-based applications.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Knutt, Marcia E (Winter)
- 3 lectures, one 2-hour lab and tutorial
- Prerequisites: AEPH 113, AEMA 101
- Corequisite: AEMA 102
- Note: Not open to students who have taken AEPH 114, PHYS 102 or PHYS 142, and open only to students in Bioresource Engineering
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BREE 103 Linear Algebra (3 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : 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.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Knutt, Marcia E (Winter)
- 3 lectures and 1 conference
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Math 133 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent
- Prerequisite: AEMA 100 or equivalent course in functions/precalculus
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BREE 188 Freshman Seminar 2 (0.5 credits)
Overview
Bioresource Engineering : Departmental seminar series.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Cherestes, Alice (Winter)
- Restrictions: Open to Freshman intending to enrol in B.Eng. Bioresources Engineering Major. Not open to students who have taken ABEN 188.
Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences—2010-2011 (last updated Jan. 19, 2011) (disclaimer)