You take bio, chem, calc, and physics both semesters... so that is really 8 courses (however, bio and chem are both full-year courses, so technically speaking they are each one "course")... then you can take two half courses or one full course as an elective.

FYI, half course = one-semester course, full course = two-semester course. Half course = 0.5 credits, full course = 1.0 credits (at Western at least).

What you are looking for is called an "academic calendar." This is Western's (for science programs). On the left column, you will see "Undergraduate Course Information"---this is a list of all courses and their descriptions. "Faculties" will lead you to the course requirements for your program of choice. When you click on "Undergraduate Course Information," be sure to scroll down to the bottom to check out the legend-type things.

What Western just released is the timetables for next year. Find the subject using the drop box, type in the course number (e.g. Biology 1222 is first-year bio for people who got 80%+ in SBI4U), and then you can see when that course is offered. Continuing with this, you can make yourself a preliminary schedule.

The exact requirements for first year are here: http://www.uwo.ca/biology/undergraduate/biomedfirstentry.htm. As you can see calculus is not a requirement; rather, it is on a list of courses that you can take to fulfill the math requirement---however, most people take Calc 050 and 081 (... in new course numbering, Calc 1000 and 1301 [although I would strongly suggest taking calc 1201 instead... it gets you into all the same programs, but it is easier than 1301]). Calc is a requirement for some graduate and professional programs, so I strongly suggest taking it and not one of the other math courses. To clarify (that site is a little unclear), Biology programs don't require you to take a full year of physics; medical science programs do. I would also strongly suggest taking a full year of physics because it leaves your options open and a lot of graduate and professional programs want you to have a full year of physics (and by full year I mean 1.0 credit... so either two half courses or one full course). Unfortunately, on that site, they haven't updated the course numbers yet (Western just changed the course numbers for all courses), but at the top of each department's undergraduate course information page (e.g. look at Biology's), there is a link that says "Click here for conversion list of former 3-digit course numbers," click on that to do the conversion.

If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask.

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Honours BMSc Specialization in Medical Science, Minor in Psychology UWO '09
Bachelor of Pharmacy Alberta '13 ???

The only way to figure out is to do. Science, engineering, and business were the three fields that interested me in high school, but I figured that I liked science the most of the three. I went with it, and I'm happy I did. I still think engineering and business are interesting, but I'd rather be in science. I'm sure that very few people go into university confident that they are in the right program. Remember: what you go into in first year is not set in stone, and quite a few people do end up transferring (programs and/or schools). A lot of the time when you transfer programs, you don't even need to do an extra year of university to catch up because a) not all the courses you take in first year will be a waste (e.g. if you take anthro as your elective and switch into anthro, you won't need to take it the next year) and b) you can use the other first-year courses as electives in the program you transfer to (e.g. a lot of honours specialization programs at Western require 9.0 courses after first year... this leaves 6.0 electives available to you after first year... this means you can (imagining that you switch into anthropology after first year) use the 4.0 courses you took in first year that weren't useful to that program as electives). In fact, the only required course for anthropology programs is first-year anthropology, so you could VERY easily enter an anthropology program if you take first-year anthro. If you have an interest in archaeology, I suggest taking Anthropology 1025F and 1026G as your electives next year (if you go to Western).

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Honours BMSc Specialization in Medical Science, Minor in Psychology UWO '09
Bachelor of Pharmacy Alberta '13 ???