Bachelor of Science (Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) (B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.)) - Life Sciences (Multidisciplinary) McGill University

The BSc (AgEnvSc) is offered on our beautiful Macdonald Campus, located in the picturesque town of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, on the western tip of the Island of Montreal. The campus is spread over 1600 acres of land containing research facilities, bike paths, an arboretum with walking and ski trails, working farm, greenhouses and much more. When you are not in class, you can spend time exploring all the west island has to offer. A free intercampus shuttle and good public transit links means the thriving metropolis of Montreal is also just a 40 minute bus or car ride away.

Over the course of three years (U1, U2 and U3), students will complete a 90-credit degree. For students from high schools outside Quebec, a 30-credit freshman year (called U0) will be added at the start of your studies (making this a four-year, 120-credit degree).

Program Requirements

Students taking this specialization have a wide variety of Life Sciences course offerings to choose from, which allow them to target their program to their own interests in the field. Course choices are balanced between "fundamentals" and "applications." Depending upon the courses chosen, the resulting program may be relatively specialized or very broad, spanning several disciplines. Such a broad background in Life Sciences will open up employment opportunities in a variety of diverse bioscience industries; students with an appropriate CGPA may proceed to a wide variety of postgraduate programs or professional schools.

Complementary Courses (24 credits)

24 credits selected from the following list:

ANSC 312 Animal Health and Disease (3 credits)
ANSC 323 Mammalian Physiology (3 credits)
ANSC 324 Developmental Biology and Reproduction (3 credits)
ANSC 326 Fundamentals of Population Genetics (3 credits)
ANSC 350 Food-Borne Pathogens (3 credits)
ANSC 420 Animal Biotechnology (3 credits)
ANSC 424 Metabolic Endocrinology (3 credits)
ANSC 433 Animal Nutrition and Metabolism (3 credits)
ANSC 560 Biology of Lactation (3 credits)
ANSC 565 Applied Information Systems (3 credits)
BINF 511 Bioinformatics for Genomics (3 credits)
BTEC 306 Experiments in Biotechnology (3 credits)
BTEC 535 Functional Genomics in Model Organisms (3 credits)