Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences – Health Science Stream

Program Overview & Highlights

Honours 4-Year Program
Thesis Available

Calling all future health professionals! This program gives you a strong background in both biochemistry and biomedical sciences, fundamental to health and medicine. You’ll be in a lab within the first two weeks of this program and get the chance to conduct undergraduate research with hands-on learning in courses like CURE. You’ll get a chance to work alongside clinical researchers and medical professionals to learn about funding, project management, communication and other issues of cancer and health research.

Students get into labs within the first few weeks and continue to have lab and hands-on experiences throughout undergraduate studies

Small class sizes allowing you access to opportunities not found at larger institutions, preparing you for a successful career

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85%

employment rate in field of study 6 months after graduation¹

¹ Students from Faculty of Science

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Biology/SBI4U. English/ENG4U
Strongly Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCN4U
Recommended: Physics/SPH4U
Minimum Average: 75% average of all attempted science and math courses required
Mean Average: 88%

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

Course Requirements: Grade 12 Advanced Functions, Grade 12 Chemistry, Grade 12 Biology. Grade 12 English.
Recommended: Grade 12 Physics
Minimum Average: 75% average of all attempted science and math courses required
Mean Average: 88%

Academic Calendars

The University of Windsor Academic Calendar is your source for official information about academic programs and regulations of the University of Windsor.

Career Tracks

Professional school (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry)
Industrial and government research and development
Health and biomedical research in graduate studies
Clinical researcher

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Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

All students using this page should attend Head Start or make an appointment with an academic advisor in their program area.
Email biomedsci@uwindsor.ca or chembiohead@uwindsor.ca for direction to an appropriate academic advisor.
Open Choice means any course that fulfils the degree requirements. It can be one course from Arts, Languages or Social Sciences (FAHSS) or any area of study.
Information on this page is adapted from the Undergraduate Academic Calendar. The Calendar contains all current information on program requirements and course offerings and holds the definitive regulations for graduation and should be the ultimate guide for students.

Required Course Notes

BIOL 1101^*
CHEM 1100^*
MATH 1760 or MATH 1720¹
PHYS 1400^*
Open choice²

^* 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.

² Health Stream students can take five open choice courses and four FAHSS courses for the duration of the program. They must take one in the first term of first year. Some recommended 1st year courses are PSYC-1150 (Social Science) or GART-1500 (Art/Language).

Required Courses

BIOL 1101: Cell Biology

CHEM 1100: General Chemistry I

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

Recommended Courses

PSYC 1150: Introduction to Psychology as a Behavioural Science

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