Program Overview

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Biomedical Sciences – Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

Program Overview & Highlights

• Honours 4-Year Program
• Thesis Available
• BSc

The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program provides an exciting opportunity to combine a Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences and Psychology degree with unique interdisciplinary concentrations. This program allows students to explore global challenges and grow as thought leaders who can tackle issues in areas like global health, the environment and climate change, and sustainable development.

Make connections with health-related organizations including, WeSpark, Windsor Essex County Health Unit, Windsor Essex Community Health Centre

This unique program equips students with a diversity of knowledge, skills, and abilities to prepare you for a wide-range of careers and research possibilities

What Lancers Are Saying

The professors are actually practicing in their profession, so they get to share what they do in the clinic. You get to be really close with your professors.

Elyssa Biscocho

Student
Biomedical Sciences and Biochemical Sciences with Minor in Psychology

Faculty & Staff

Recruitment & Outreach Coordinator

Sheri Lowrie

FAHSS Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator

Hi, I’m Sheri Lowrie — though you might know me better as your cool Auntie Sheri on campus! I’m here to support you as you navigate your path to becoming a proud Lancer in one of our Faculty of Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences programs.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language, with minors in Communications, Media and Film, and Sociology. Whether you prefer texting, emailing, a virtual coffee chat, or a cozy conversation on my couch, I’m always here to help you reach your academic goals and make the most of your university experience.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

• Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Biology/SBI4U, English/ENG4U.
• Strongly Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCV4U
• Recommended: Physics/SPH4U
• Minimum Average: 70% in all attempted science and math courses
• Mean Average: 89%

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

• Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Biology/SBI4U, English/ENG4U.
• Strongly Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCV4U
• Recommended: Physics/SPH4U
• Minimum Average: 70% in all attempted science and math courses
• Mean Average: 89%

Career Tracks

• Professional schools (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine)
• Conservation officer
• Ecologist
• Entomologist
• Agricultural scientist
• Animal care specialist
• Laboratory supervisor
• Industrial and government research and development
• Health and biomedical research in graduate studies
• Clinical researcher

Related Programs

• Biological Sciences
• Biomedical Sciences

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

1. All students using this page should attend Head Start
2. Students will need to select 8 electives from one area of concentration.
3. For this program, areas of concentration include: Health Care Economics, Aging and Health, Health and Society, Medical Humanities, Indigenous Health, Biostatistics, Health Spaces and Places and One Health.
4. Email for direction to an appropriate academic advisor for this program.

Required Course Notes

• BIOL 1101*
• CHEM 1100*
• MATH 1760 or MATH 17201
• One of the following:
  • PHYS 1300* OR
  • PHYS 1400*
• IHSC 1000
• Course with lab

1 Students who have credit for MCV4U Calculus and Vectors should register in MATH 1720; those who do not have MCV4U should register in MATH 1760

Required Courses

BIOL 1101: Cell Biology

Examination of the principles governing living systems, with emphasis on the molecular and cellular basis of life, molecular genetics, energetics, differentiation, and development. (Grade 12 “U” Biology or equivalent, or BIOM-1003 and BIOL-1013 are strongly recommended) (3 lecture, 3 laboratory hours a week.)

CHEM 1100: General Chemistry I

Introductory concepts in chemistry, including reactions of atoms, ions, and molecules, solution stoichiometry, thermochemistry, electronic structure of atoms, basic chemical bonding and molecular geometry, periodic properties of the elements, and the theory of gases. (Prerequisite: Grade 12“U” Chemistry or equivalent,or consent of the instructor.) (3 lecture, 3 laboratory/tutorial hours a week.)

IHSC 1000: Foundations in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of health sciences, including definitions of heath, wellness, and illness from multiple perspectives (e.g., biological, behavioural, social, environmental). Students will be exposed to various areas of specialization including: healthcare economics, healthcare informatics, health and aging, health and society, Indigenous health, healthy spaces and places, medical humanities, environmental health, and one health. Current health science issues within the community and media will be presented. (This course is restricted to students enrolled in an Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Stream.)

MATH 1720: Differential Calculus

This course will cover trigonometric functions and identities, inverse trigonometric functions, limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who do not have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1760. (Prerequisites: Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) or MATH-1780.) (Antirequisite: MATH-1760.) (3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

MATH 1760: Functions and Differential Calculus

This course will cover a review of functions, trigonometric functions and identities, transcendental functions, inverse trigonometric functions, introduction to limits, continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U), but have not taken Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1720. The course is equivalent to MATH-1720 for all prerequisite purposes. (Prerequisite: Ontario Grade 12Advanced Functions (MHF4U).) (Antirequisite: MATH-1720.) (4 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

PHYS 1400: Introductory Physics I

First semester in a four-semester sequence in calculus-based introductory physics with an emphasis on mechanics. (Prerequisites: Grade 12“U” Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus or equivalent. Recommended co-requisite: MATH-1720.) (3 lecture hours per week, 3 laboratory hours per week.) Open to students in Engineering, Human Kinetics, Forensic Science, Bachelor of Arts and Science, and all programs within in the Faculty of Science; exceptions only with the permission of the Head or designate. (Antirequisites: PHYS-1300, PHYS-1305.)