Behaviour, Cognition and Neuroscience

Program Overview & Highlights

Honours 4-year program
Thesis Available
BCN

The Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience program explores behavioural, cognitive, cellular and molecular aspects of life from both a biological and psychological perspective. You’ll study behaviour and cognition in humans and other animals, and neuroscience at the chemical, genetic, and systems physiological levels. Enjoy hands-on learning through work in the lab and/or field that will expose you to cutting-edge research and prepare you for a wide range of careers.

Interdisciplinary program across Biology and Psychology where students can study in their area of interest

Students graduate with in-demand neuroscience credentials, where UWindsor offers one of few undergraduate neuroscience programs in Canada

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>85%

employment rate in field of study¹

¹ 6 months after graduation (Faculty of Science)

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

Course Requirements: Advanced Functions/MHF4U, Chemistry/SCH4U, Biology/SBI4U. English/ENG4U.
Strongly Recommended: Calculus & Vectors/MCV4U
Recommended: Physics/SPH4U
Minimum Average: 70% on all attempted science and math courses
Mean Average: 88%

High School Student from Outside Canada and the United States (International)

Career Tracks

Neuroscience
Biomedical and Biotechnical Research
Neuroethology
Psychology
Medicine, Dentistry, Other Healthcare Professions
Academic and Laboratory Research

Related Programs

Biological Sciences

Psychology

Plan Your Program

Term: Fall 2025

Important Notes

All students in this program should attend Head Start.
Please email biosci@uwindsor.ca for direction to an appropriate academic advisor for this program who can meet with you and help you with course selections.

Required Course Notes

PSYC 1150^***
BIOL 1101^*
CHEM 1100^*
Open Choice^** (MATH 1720 or MATH 1760 is recommended¹)

One of the following five pairs of courses (please note that each pair consists of a course that must be taken in the Fall semester, and one course that must be taken in the Winter semester):

Pair of Course Option No.	Fall Semester	Winter Semester
1	PHYS 1300*	PHYS 1310*
2	PHYS 1400*	PHYS 1410* (or PHYS 1310*)
3	COMP 1047 or COMP 2067	COMP 2057
4	ESCI 1100	ESCI 1111*
5	ESCI 1130	ESCI 2400

* Course with lab

** Open Choice means any course that fulfils the degree requirements. Many students choose to select a Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) course in the first year.

*** PSYC 1150: Section 1 is for Majors only. Section 2 and Section 30 are for non-majors.

¹ Students who have credit for MCV4U Calculus and Vectors will register in MATH 1720; those who do not have MCV4U should register in MATH 1760.

Required Courses

PSYC 1150: Introduction to Psychology as a Behavioural Science

BIOL 1101: Cell Biology

CHEM 1100: General Chemistry I

MATH 1720: Differential Calculus

This course will cover trigonometric functions and identities, inverse trigonometric functions, limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken both Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who do not have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1760. (Prerequisites: Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U) and Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U) or MATH-1780.) (Antirequisite: MATH-1760.) (3 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

MATH 1760: Functions and Differential Calculus

This course will cover a review of functions, trigonometric functions and identities, transcendental functions, inverse trigonometric functions, introduction to limits, continuity, derivatives and applications, mean value theorem, indeterminate forms and l’Hôpital’s rule, antiderivatives and an introduction to definite integrals. This course is for students who have taken Ontario Grade 12 Advanced Functions (MHF4U), but have not taken Ontario Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors (MCV4U). Students who have credit for MCV4U should take MATH-1720. The course is equivalent to MATH-1720 for all prerequisite purposes. (Prerequisite: Ontario Grade 12Advanced Functions (MHF4U).) (Antirequisite: MATH-1720.) (4 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour per week.)

COMP 1047: Computer Concepts for End-Users

COMP 2057: Introduction to the Internet

COMP 2067: Programming for Beginners

PHYS 1300: Introductory Physics for Life Sciences I

PHYS 1310: Introductory Physics for Life Sciences II

PHYS 1400: Introductory Physics I

PHYS 1410: Introductory Physics II

ESCI 1130: Atmosphere and Climate

ESCI 2400: Geomorphology

ESCI 1100: Environmental Systems – An Introduction to Environmental Science

ESCI 1111: Introduction to Earth Science

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