Admission to a Major

ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION
To be eligible for admission to any of our undergraduate programmes, you must have completed 10 first year courses:

For BIOCHEMISTRY, these courses must include:

  • 6 credit hours CRW (at least 3 credit hours in English courses)
  • Two first year Mathematics courses
    [1090 & 1000]
    [1000 & 1001]
  • Two first year Chemistry courses
    [1050 & 1051]
    [1200 & 1001]
    [1010 &1050]*

For NUTRITION these courses must include:

  • 6 credit hours CRW (at least 3 credit hours in English courses)
  • Two first year Mathematics courses
    [1090 & 1000] or
    [1000 & one elective]
  • Two first year Chemistry courses
    [1050 & 1051]
    [1200 & 1001]
    [1010 &1050]*

AND EITHER

AND EITHER
  • Two first year Physics courses
    [1020 & 1021]
    [1050 & 1051]
    [1020 & 1051]
  • Two first year Physics courses
    [1020 & 1021]
    [1050 & 1051]
    [1020 & 1051]

OR

OR
  • Two first year Biology courses
    [1001 & 1002]
  • Two first year Biology courses
    [1001 & 1002]
You must obtain a minimum average of 60% in these eight courses.

*You must be eligible for Chemistry 2400 in Fall of second year. It is recommended that you complete Chemistry1051 before beginning second year of studies.

 

 

APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION

To apply for admission to the MAJOR in BIOCHEMISTRY or NUTRITION, you must complete:

  1. the  Department's Online Application for Admission form     ....or
  2. the Registrar's Declaration/Change of Academic Programme form (see forms link) and forward it to bcadvice@mun.ca 

 If you choose to submit the online form, you will authorise the department to complete a Declaration/Change of Academic Programme form and send it to the Registrar's Office on your behalf.

There is no deadline for application but we we strongly recommend that students apply to declare their majors no later than May 31 in any year so that your major is on record at the Registrar's Office before Fall registration starts. It generally takes about two weeks to process an application though it can be slower at some times of the year. We will notify you by email/mail when we have processed your application.

Students who do not declare their major by May 31 may not be eligible for departmental scholarship or other award nominations.




Updated June 2021