Medical Sciences Program

Faculty of Science

List of Selectives and Advanced Selectives (2024)

Medical Sciences Honours students must include in their program at least 21 credit hours in the following courses. Students not in the honours program must include at least 24 credit hours of these courses. In both cases, at least one of the Selectives must be an Advanced Selective. For course descriptions, please click on the course numbers, highlighted in green.

NOTE: If the course does not appear on the timetable, it is not offered that year

Note that a Selective is a course from a predetermined list, provided by the program, whereas an Elective is any course at Dalhousie University. In cases where prerequisites for Selectives are not offered as Medical Sciences core courses, Elective space can be used to fulfill these prerequisites.

Selectives

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

BIOC 2610 - Introductory Biochemistry Lab
BIOC 3300 - Intermediary Metabolism
BIOC 3400 - Nucleic Acid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
BIOC 3501 – Introduction to Biotechnology (new Fall 2024)
BIOC 3610 - Laboratory Techniques in Biomedical Sciences (replaced by 3501 in 2024/25)
BIOC 3700 - Biomolecular Chemistry

Biology

BIOL 2003 - Animal Diversity
BIOL 2040 - Evolution
BIOL 2060 - Introductory Ecology
BIOL 3046 - Molecular Evolution
BIOL 3050 - Developmental Biology
BIOL 3322 - Parasitology
BIOL 3326 – Vertebrate Functional Morphology
BIOL 3328 - Medical Entomology (only offered in summer)
BIOL 3421/ANAT 3421- Comparative Vertebrate Histology (not offered in 2024/25)
BIOL 3430/ANAT 2160 - Introduction to Human Histology

Biomedical Engineering

BMNG 3000 - Technology in Medicine

Chemistry

CHEM 2301 - Introduction to Physical Chemistry I
CHEM 2304 - Introduction to Physical Chemistry II
CHEM 3601 - Chemistry of Living Systems

Economics

ECON 2231 - Perspectives in Health Economics (not offered in 2024/25)
ECON 3231 - Topics in Health Economics (not offered in 2024/25)

Environmental Science

ENVS 3400 – Environment and Human Health

Health

HLTH 2000 - Centering Black Canadian Health
HLTH 2201 – Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples’ Health & Healing

Humanities and Social Sciences

ENGL 2030 - Literature, Health, & Healing (not offered on 2024/25)
ENGL 3320 - Literature & the History of Medicine (not offered on 2024/25)
HIST 3916 - Health and Disease in Medieval Society (not offered on 2024/25)
HSTC 2102 - Origins of Modern Medicine
HSTC 2202 – The Beginnings of Western Medicine: The Birth of the Body
HSTC 2206/CTMP 2203 – Biopolitics: Human Nature in Contemporary Thought (not offered on 2024/25)
HSTC 2211 - Introduction to the History of Science I: From the Ancients to the Birth of the Modern
HSTC 2212 - Introduction to the History of Science II: From the Birth of the Modern to the Present
HSTC 2350 - The Body in Early Modern Europe
HSTC 3101/CTMP 3204 - Human Experiments (not offered in 2024/25)
HSTC 3102 - Plagues and People
HSTC 3121 - In Search of the Philosopher's Stone: The History of European Alchemy (not offered in 2024/25)
INTD 3115 - Global Health in the 21st Century
PHIL 2805 - Ethics and Health Care: Patient Care
PHIL 2810 - Ethics in Health Care: Social Policy (can only take one of 2805 or 2810 as selective, other as core)
PHIL 3800 - Philosophy of Medicine (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 2502 - Biomedicine and the Illness Experience (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 3135 - The Social Organization of Health Care (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 3143 - Health, Illness, and the World System (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 3145/GWST 3800 - Gender and Health (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 3147 - Aging Cross Culturally (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 3148 - The Sociology of Addiction/ Drugs, Health, and Society (not offered in 2024/25)
SOSA 3403 - Qualitative and Field Methods

Kinesiology

KINE 2465 - Introduction to Biomechanics (exclusion with PHYC 2610)
KINE 3485 - Psychology of Sport & Physical Activity

Mathematics

MATH 1010 - Differential and Integral Calculus II

Medical Neuroscience

ANAT 2160/BIOL 3430 - Introduction to Human Histology
ANAT 3421/BIOL 3421 - Comparative Vertebrate Histology (not offered in 2024/25)

Microbiology & Immunology

MICI 2400 - Laboratory Methods in Microbiology & Immunology
MICI 3114 - Virology
MICI 3119 - Physiology of Prokaryotic Cell
MICI 4115 - Medical Immunology (not offered in 2024/25)
MICI 4218 - Clinical Microbiology

Neuroscience

NESC 2130/PSYO 2130 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
NESC 2570/PSYO 2570/PHYL 2570 - Cellular Neuroscience
NESC 3043/PSYO 3043 - Neurobiology of Learning (not offered in 2024/25)
NESC 3170/PSYO 3170 - Hormones & Behaviour
NESC 3227/PSYO 3227 - Principles of Human Neuropsychology
NESC 3271/PSYO 3271 - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease
NESC 3670 - Genes, Brain and Behaviour

Pharmacology

PHAC 3333 - Pharmacology of Medicinal Herbs and Fungi

Physics

PHYC 1290 - Introduction to Physics (exclusion with PHYC 1320)
PHYC 1320 - Physics In and Around You II (exclusion with PHYC 1290)
PHYC 2250 - Physics of Biological and Medical Technology (not offered in 2024/25)
PHYC 2610 - Introduction to Biomechanics (exclusion with KINE 2465; not offered in 2024/25)

Physiology & Biophysics

PHYL 2570/NESC 2570/PSYO 2570 - Cellular Neuroscience
PHYL 3120 - Exercise Physiology in Health & Disease
PHYL 3320 - Human Cell Physiology
PHYL 3420 - Sensory Physiology (not offered in 2024/25)
PHYL 3520 - Core Concepts in Medical Physiology (excluson with PHYL 4504)
PHYL 3600 - Directed Project in Physiology
PHYL 3620 - Human Physiology Lab

Psychology

PSYO 2080 - Social Psychology
PSYO 2090 - Developmental Psychology
PSYO 2130/NESC 2130 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
PSYO 2220 - Adult Psychopathology
PSYO 2444 - Forensic Psychology
PSYO 2570/NESC 2570/PHYL 2570 – Cellular Neuroscience
PSYO 2770 - Brain & Behaviour (not offered in 2024/25)
PSYO 3043/NESC 3043 - Neurobiology of Learning (not offered in 2024/25)
PSYO 3129 - Childhood Psychopathology (Instructor Permission)
PSYO 3170/NESC 3170 - Hormones & Behaviour
PSYO 3227/NESC 3227 - Principles of Human Neuropsychology
PSYO 3271/NESC 3271 - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Science

SCIE 2111 (0 credit) & SCIE 2112 - Becoming a Scientist I & II
SCIE 3100 - Experiential Learning in Medical Sciences
SCIE 3211 - Communicating Science to Non-Scientists

Advanced Selectives