Welcome to the Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition!
First-year course selection for the Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition has both required and elective courses. You will be pre-registered into HNU 142 and will need to register yourself into your other required and elective courses.
First-Year Course Pattern
| BIOL 111 | Introductory Cell Biology - 3 credits (first term) |
| BIOL 215 | Microbiology for Human Nutrition - 3 credits (second term) |
| CHEM 101 | General Chemistry I - 3 credits (first term) |
| CHEM 102 | General Chemistry II - 3 credits (second term) |
| HNU 142 | Introduction to Food and Health - 3 credits (first term) |
| HNU 145 | Introduction to Foods - 3 credits (second term) |
| Arts Electives | 6 credits |
| Open Electives | 6 credits |
Arts Electives / Open Electives
In addition to the 18 credits of required first-year courses, you will choose 6 credits of arts courses and 6 credits of open electives. The table below provides the options available to fulfill the arts requirement. Feel free to explore new interests; there are no wrong choices!
If you might be interested in taking additional courses in a subject in future years, it would be advisable to take the foundational 100-level courses in that subject this year (whether 3 or 6 credits). Most disciplines have two 3-credit courses (one in each term) that together provide 6 credits of introductory study in that subject. (WMGS has one full-year 6-credit course that provides that foundational content.) Other disciplines have only one 3-credit intro course. In most cases, those 3 or 6 credits are the prerequisites for upper-level courses.
The BSc in Human Nutrition also accommodates an optional minor in an arts or science subject. If this is of interest to you, you should consider taking intro courses this year in the relevant subject.
You are welcome to take arts courses in more than one discipline; there is no requirement that you take 6 credits in one subject. However, you should be sure to take at least 6 credits of arts this year. Your degree program requires 12 credits of arts, and it is wise to do some of that requirement in first year.
Open electives can be courses in any subject, including more arts courses. Most nutrition students complete several credits of arts courses as open electives. If you do complete 12 credits of arts this year, they can serve to fulfill your degree requirement for the 12 credits of arts. In the third-year course pattern, where 6 credits of arts are specified, you would simply do an additional 6 credits of open electives.
In addition to arts courses, open electives can be more science courses, nutrition courses (though not in first year), or possibly business courses. (Courses in business administration are normally restricted to students in the BBA program, but interested students in any year of study may request course overrides. If seats are available after the BBA students have registered, the business chairs will normally permit registration for students outside of their faculty. Note that the HNU program does require BSAD 112, though it is normally taken in second year.)
Please note that the subjects displayed in the following table are also links to their respective pages on this website. If first-year, 100-level courses are offered in a particular subject, their course descriptions are displayed at the bottom of the applicable subject page.
Things to Remember
- When building your course schedule, be sure to begin with required courses that are offered in only one timeblock, and schedule other courses around those.
- When scheduling your arts and open electives courses, try to avoid the O5 block so that you can leave it free for Human Nutrition seminars that are held in that block throughout the year. (This reference to “O5 block” will become clearer as you navigate through this website and begin to build your course schedule.) However, if you have to use that block to accommodate your registration, you may do so. Your registration takes precedence.
Question You Might Have
I am interested in taking 6 credits of English in first year, but there is only one 3-credit course available at the 100-level. Are there other English courses that I can take this year?
If you choose ENGL 111 in the first term, you can also choose any 200-level English course that is offered in the second semester, subject to availability. However, second-term 200-level English courses may be full before first-year registration opens, so this option may not be a possibility for you.
Registration Help Centre
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