Medical Sciences Program

Faculty of Science

List of Selectives and Advanced Selectives (2026)

UPDATED ON APRIL 21, 2026 BY ASRAR UL HAQ-MONTFORD, MEDICAL SCIENCES CLERK

Important note about required number of Selectives & Advanced Selectives:

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - MEDICAL SCIENCES MAJOR (120 CREDIT HOURS)

24.00 credit hours of Selectives are required, 3.00 credit hours of which must be Advanced Selectives

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - MEDICAL SCIENCES WITH HONOURS (120 CREDIT HOURS)

21.00 credit hours of Selectives are required, including at least 6.00 credit hours at the 3000/4000 level, 3.00 credit hours of which must be Advanced Selectives.

Note that a Selective is a course from a predetermined list, provided by the program, whereas an Elective is any course at Dalhousie University. In cases where prerequisites for Selectives are not offered as Medical Sciences core courses, Elective space can be used to fulfill these prerequisites.

If the course does not appear on the timetable, it is not offered that year

Selectives

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

BIOC 2610 - Introductory Biochemistry Lab
BIOC 3300 - Intermediary Metabolism
BIOC 3400 - Nucleic Acid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
BIOC 3501 – Introduction to Biotechnology
BIOC 3610 - Laboratory Techniques in Biomedical Sciences
BIOC 3700 - Biomolecular Chemistry

Biology

BIOL 2003 - Animal Diversity
BIOL 2040 - Evolution
BIOL 2060 - Introductory Ecology
BIOL 3046 - Molecular Evolution
BIOL 3050 - Developmental Biology
BIOL 3322 - Parasitology
BIOL 3326 – Vertebrate Functional Morphology
BIOL 3328 - Medical Entomology
BIOL 3421/ANAT 3421- Comparative Vertebrate Histology
BIOL 3430/ANAT 2160 - Introduction to Human Histology

Biomedical Engineering

BMNG 3000 - Technology in Medicine

Chemistry

CHEM 2301 - Introduction to Physical Chemistry I
CHEM 2304 - Introduction to Physical Chemistry II
CHEM 3601 - Chemistry of Living Systems

Disability Management

DISM 3010 – Introduction to Disability and Disability Management

Economics

ECON 2231 - Perspectives in Health Economics
ECON 3231 - Topics in Health Economics

Environmental Science

ENVS 3400 – Environment and Human Health

Health

HLTH 2000 - Centering Black Canadian Health
HLTH 2201 – Introduction to Aboriginal Peoples’ Health & Healing

Humanities and Social Sciences

CLAS 2888 - Greek & Latin Terminology for the Medical Sciences
ENGL 2030 - Literature, Health, & Healing
ENGL 3320 - Literature & the History of Medicine
HIST 3700 - Topics in the History of Health and Healthcare
HIST 3916 - Health and Disease in Medieval Society
HIST 4700 - Seminar on the History of Health and Healthcare
HSTC 2102 - Origins of Modern Medicine
HSTC 2206/CTMP 2203 – Biopolitics: Human Nature in Contemporary Thought
HSTC 2211 - Introduction to the History of Science I: From the Ancients to the Birth of the Modern
HSTC 2212 - Introduction to the History of Science II: From the Birth of the Modern to the Present
HSTC 2350 - The Body in Early Modern Europe
HSTC 3101/CTMP 3204 - Human Experiments
HSTC 3102 - Plagues and People
HSTC 3103 – Medicine in the 20th and 21st Centuries
HSTC 3121 - In Search of the Philosopher's Stone: The History of European Alchemy
HSTC 3140/CLAS 3140 - Body and Embodiment in Greco-Roman Medicine
INTD 3115 - Global Health in the 21st Century
PHIL 2805 - Ethics and Health Care: Patient Care
PHIL 2810 - Ethics in Health Care: Social Policy
PHIL 3800 - Philosophy of Medicine
SOSA 2502 - Biomedicine and the Illness Experience
SOSA 2933 - Health and Culture
SOSA 3135 - The Social Organization of Health Care
SOSA 3143 - Health, Illness, and the World System
SOSA 3145/GWST 3800 - Gender and Health
SOSA 3147 - Aging Cross Culturally
SOSA 3148 - The Sociology of Addiction/ Drugs, Health, and Society
SOSA 3403 - Qualitative and Field Methods

Kinesiology

KINE 2465 - Introduction to Biomechanics
KINE 3485 - Psychology of Sport & Physical Activity

Mathematics

MATH 1010 - Differential and Integral Calculus II

Medical Neuroscience

ANAT 2160/BIOL 3430 - Introduction to Human Histology
ANAT 3421/BIOL 3421 - Comparative Vertebrate Histology

Microbiology & Immunology

MICI 2400 - Laboratory Methods in Microbiology & Immunology
MICI 3114 - Virology
MICI 3119 - Physiology of Prokaryotic Cell
MICI 4115 - Medical Immunology
MICI 4218 - Clinical Microbiology

Neuroscience

NESC 2130/PSYO 2130 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
NESC 2570/PSYO 2570/PHYL 2570 - Cellular Neuroscience
NESC 3043/PSYO 3043 - Neurobiology of Learning
NESC 3170/PSYO 3170 - Hormones & Behaviour
NESC 3227/PSYO 3227 - Principles of Human Neuropsychology
NESC 3271/PSYO 3271 - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease
NESC 3670 - Genes, Brain and Behaviour

Pharmacology

PHAC 3333 - Pharmacology of Medicinal Herbs and Fungi

Physics

PHYC 1290 - Introduction to Physics
PHYC 1320 - Physics In and Around You II
PHYC 2250 - Physics of Biological and Medical Technology
PHYC 2610 - Introduction to Biomechanics

Physiology & Biophysics

PHYL 2570/NESC 2570/PSYO 2570 - Cellular Neuroscience
PHYL 3120 - Exercise Physiology in Health & Disease
PHYL 3320 - Human Cell Physiology
PHYL 3420 - Sensory Physiology
PHYL 3520 - Core Concepts in Medical Physiology
PHYL 3600 - Directed Project in Physiology
PHYL 3620 - Human Physiology Lab

Psychology

PSYO 2080 - Social Psychology
PSYO 2090 - Developmental Psychology
PSYO 2130/NESC 2130 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
PSYO 2220 - Adult Psychopathology
PSYO 2444 - Forensic Psychology
PSYO 2570/NESC 2570/PHYL 2570 – Cellular Neuroscience
PSYO 2770 - Brain & Behaviour
PSYO 3043/NESC 3043 - Neurobiology of Learning
PSYO 3129 - Childhood Psychopathology (Instructor permission required)
PSYO 3170/NESC 3170 - Hormones & Behaviour
PSYO 3227/NESC 3227 - Principles of Human Neuropsychology
PSYO 3271/NESC 3271 - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Science

SCIE 2111 (0 credit) & SCIE 2112 - Becoming a Scientist I & II
SCIE 3100 - Experiential Learning in Medical Sciences
SCIE 3211 - Communicating Science to Non-Scientists

Advanced Selectives