If you have been admitted into the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from a high school system (outside of the Quebec CEGEP system), you will be admitted into the Foundation Year听辫谤辞驳谤补尘.听
The courses you need to register for depend on your degree, as listed below.听 These courses are offered on the Macdonald Campus. You will benefit from small class sizes and a dedicated academic advisor.听 Some of these courses have equivalents offered by the Faculty of Science on the downtown campus.听 Please note that students admitted into the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Foundation Year program may register for up to a maximum of 8 credits of courses on the downtown campus during their first year (fall and winter terms combined).
New: we are very pleased to announce that a Foundation Year program revision has been approved and will be implemented as of fall 2026. The revised program will offer students more flexibility, a consolidated biology course, and more relevant calculus and physics courses tailored to their program of study.听 Returning students with missing Foundation Year requirements should contact the Foundation Year academic advisor to go over their options.
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Course selection
B.Sc. (Ag.Env.Sc.)
Fall
- AEBI 120 Integrated Life Sciences
- AECH 110 General Chemistry 1
- AEPH 100 Elements of Physics
- one complementary course, to be selected from the list below in consultation听with the Foundation Year听academic advisor
Winter
- AECH 111 General Chemistry 2
- AEMA 100 Calculus for Life Sciences
- complementary courses, to be selected from the list below in consultation with the Foundation Year academic advisor
Advising Notes
- AEMA 100 can be replaced by the combination of AEMA 101 and AEMA 102. Students intending to pursue the Environment Major with either the Environmetrics, Water Environments and Ecosystems (Biological Stream), or Water Environments and Ecosystems (Physical Stream) Concentration should register in AEMA 101 (fall) and AEMA 102 (winter) instead of AEMA 100.
- AEPH 100 can be replaced by the combination of AEPH 113 and AEPH 115. Students intending to pursue the Environment Major with the Water Environments and Ecosystems (Physical Stream) Concentration should register in AEPH 113 (fall) and AEPH 115 (winter) instead of AEPH 100.
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B.Sc. (Ag.Env.Sc.) 鈥� Agricultural Economics Major
Fall
- AEBI 120 Integrated Life Sciences
- AECH 110 General Chemistry 1听
- AEMA 101 Calculus 1
- one complementary course, to be selected from the list below听in consultation with the Foundation Year academic advisor
Winter
- AEMA 102 Calculus 2
- BREE 103 Linear Algebra
- complementary courses, to be selected from the list below in consultation with the Foundation Year academic advisor
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B.Sc. (Food Science), B.Sc. (Nutritional Sciences), and Concurrent B.Sc. (Food Science)/B.Sc. (Nutritional Sciences)
Fall
- AEBI 120 Integrated Life Sciences
- AECH 110 General Chemistry 1
- AEPH 100 Elements of Physics
- one complementary course, to be selected from the list below in consultation with the Foundation Year academic advisor
Winter
- AECH 111 General Chemistry 2
- AEMA 100 Calculus for the Life Sciences
- FDSC 230 Organic Chemistry
- one complementary course, to be selected from the list below in consultation听with the Foundation Year academic advisor
Advising Notes
- AEMA 100 can be replaced by the combination of AEMA 101 and AEMA 102.
- AEPH 100 can be replaced by the combination of AEPH 113 and AEPH 115.
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B.Eng. (Bioresource)
Fall
- AEBI 120 Integrated Life Sciences
- AECH 110 General Chemistry 1
- AEMA 101 Calculus 1听
- AEPH 113 Physics 1
Winter
- AECH 111 General Chemistry 2
- AEMA 102 Calculus 2
- AEPH 115 Physics听2
- BREE 103 Linear Algebra
Approved complementary course list
The following courses have been approved as complementary courses for all Foundation Year B.Sc. programs offered by the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.听 Complementary courses completed during the Foundation Year that also appear as part of a student's subsequent program can be replaced by an elective in the subsequent program.
- 听听*required for B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) Agricultural Economics Major; complementary in all other B.Sc. programs
- *complementary for B.Sc.(Ag.Env.Sc.) only; required in all other B.Sc. programs