Honours Science (BSc)

Degree Highlights

Your future professors work hard to make sure your academic experience is current, complete and designed to open doors in your career. Here are a few things you can count on: 

• Career-Ready Curriculum: Select from biology, chemistry, computer science, physics, mathematics, geography, and psychology courses. Each course is designed to build foundational and advanced skills relevant to your chosen focus.
• Lab Opportunities: There’s nothing like hands-on experience to solidify your learning and round out your resume, so laboratory experience is integrated into the curriculum. Look for opportunities to take part in research projects in faculty members’ labs. Consider a Directed Studies or Directed Research course in your fourth year.
• Get Ready for Grad School: Complete all necessary prerequisites for graduate studies or health-related professional schools, including medicine, dentistry, veterinary, and pharmacy.

Top Experiences

Here are just a few of our students’ favourite ways to apply their learning in the real world throughout their degree (check out the Experience Guide for even more!): 

• Co-op: Apply to co-op at the end of first year and complete multiple work terms while strengthening your resume during your degree.
• Residence Learning Community: Live in the Faculty of Science Residence Learning Community to enhance your academic and social success.
• Become an Instructional Assistant: Be hired as an instructional assistant to work in a teaching lab in your senior years.
• Science Maker Lab: Take science entrepreneurship courses and explore the Science Maker Lab to gain hands-on experience.
• Research Projects: Consider a directed studies course in your fourth year to focus on an area that interests you. Look for opportunities to take part in research projects in faculty members’ labs.  

Sample First-Year Courses

• Biological Diversity and Evolution
• Data Structures I
• Fundamentals of Chemistry I and II
• Calculus I
• Introduction to Physical Geography
• Introduction to Programming
• Introduction to Psychology I and II
• Mechanics
• Thermodynamics and Waves
• The Surface of Earth
• Unifying Life Processes

Sample First-Year Electives

• Environment, Sustainability and Society
• Introduction to Human Geography
• Astronomy I and II

Sample Upper-Year Courses

• Molecular Biology and Genetics
• Human Anatomy
• Introduction to Immunology
• Animals: Form and Function
• Environmental Toxicology
• Abnormal Psychology
• Behavioural Neuroscience
• Drugs and Behaviour
• Planetary and Space Science
• Windows Application Programming

Options and Minors

These are a few of the many popular academic opportunities which allow you to dive deeper into your major area of study or broaden your knowledge.

• Leadership Option
• Education Minor
• Indigenous Studies Minor

Check out other options to enhance your degree.

Management Option

The Management Option is for students interested in adding management-specific education to their degree. This is a direct-entry, 4.0-credit option that includes courses covering all the core pillars of business and economics. Apply directly to Science with Management Option on OUAC.

Grad School Pathways

The following opportunities allow you to pursue additional, related post-grad qualifications from another postsecondary institution:

• Medical School Pathways: Our pathway agreement with American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) means you’re automatically granted an admissions interview to the AUC School of Medicine if you meet all academic requirements. Upon graduation, you’ll have the opportunity to write exams to practice medicine in Canada, the UK or the United States. We also have a pathway agreement with St. George's University School of Medicine.
• Law Pathway: You can also pair your Science (BSc) degree from Laurier with a Law (LLB) degree from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) through our six-year pathway program.