Biomedical Sciences

Program Overview & Highlights

Honours 4-year program
Thesis Available
BSc

Be on the cutting edge of scientific research in this program that focuses on human health and disease. The curriculum integrates hands-on learning in labs and provides opportunities for undergraduate research. You will be exposed to the latest molecular and cellular biology research and technology, while building transferable skills that are essential to careers in health sciences, industry, government and education.

Specializations & Streams

Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (Health Science Stream)

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.

Multiple concentrations: Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Informatics, Health and Aging, Health and Society, Health and Gender Studies, Indigenous Health, Healthy Spaces and Place, Medical Humanities, One Health (Environmental Health) and Biostatistics.

Biochemistry and Biomedical Science (Health Stream)

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.

Biomedical research opportunities that stand out when applying to professional schools.

Many experiential learning opportunities for students. UWindsor has direct connections with physicians and clinical community in Windsor-Essex.

Learn More About Our Program

>85%

employment rate in field of study¹

¹ 6 months after graduation for all science graduates

>70%

of Science students will participate in undergraduate research

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% on all attempted science and math courses.
*Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (Health Science Stream requires 75% on all attempted science and math courses)

Career Tracks

Professional school (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry)
biomedical and biotechnical researcher
quality assurance supervisor
clinical researcher
consultant

Related Programs

Biochemistry

Biological Sciences

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 for direction to an appropriate academic advisor.
Open Choice means any course that fulfils the degree requirements. Many students choose to select a Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) course in the first year.
Information on this page is adapted from the Academic Calendar. The calendar contains all current information on program requirements and course offerings and holds the definitive regulations for graduation.

Required Course Notes

BIOL 1101^*
CHEM 1100^*
MATH 1760 or MATH 1720¹
One of the following:
- PHYS 1300^* OR
- PHYS 1400^*
FAHSS elective or 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 Some recommended 1st year courses in FAHSS are PSYC 1150 (Social Science) and GART 1500 (Art/Language).

Required Courses

BIOL 1101: Cell Biology

CHEM 1100: General Chemistry I

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.)

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.)

PHYS 1300: Introductory Physics for Life Sciences I

PHYS 1400: Introductory Physics I

PSYC 1150: Introduction to Psychology as a Behavioural Science

GART 1500: Effective Writing I

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