Incoming On-Campus Students

Welcome to the Bachelor of Health Sciences community.

Congratulations on accepting your offer of admission to the on-campus Bachelor of Health Sciences! We look forward to welcoming you to Queen's campus in September!

On this page, you'll find information about course registration and orientation, as well as other resources to help you prepare for the transition to university.

Please Note: For now, we recommend that incoming students hold off on booking academic advising appointments as more information will be communicated directly from the Program Office to you over the next few weeks (to your official Queen's University email) about course registration. This will include information about course selection and planning as well as a course registration webinar, all prior to when you will be enrolling in your courses.

Course registration for the Fall and Winter terms will take place in July. You will be assigned an enrolment appointment date and time in SOLUS, which will be first day that you can start to register in courses. You will have the opportunity to adjust your schedule later in the month, and then again during open enrolment in August.

You will not be automatically enrolled in your core courses, so you will need to be sure to register in those 6 courses. You can choose to enrol in either the Blended (in-person) or Online offering of each of your core courses. Enough seats are reserved in the Blended offerings of the core courses for all incoming BHSc students.

Your first-year core courses are: 

PHGY 170 Human Cell Physiology
PHAR 100 Introductory Pharmacology
GLPH 171 Social and Physical Determinants of Health and Disease
ANAT 100 Anatomy of the Human Body
HSCI 190 Introduction to Statistics for the Health Sciences
IDIS 173 History and Philosophy of Health and Healthcare

You will also need to choose and enrol in 6.0 units of option courses and 6.0 units of electives during your enrolment appointment. Option courses must be chosen from the Year 1 option course list. Electives can be any course at Queen's that you are eligible to take.

View the program course requirements by year

Course Registration Webinar

Monday, July 14th @ 2pm

Unsure of how to enrol in courses or what prerequisites you may need for your degree plan? Alana Korczynski (Programs Manager) & Dr. Nikki Philbrook (Program Director) will provide an overview the course registration and selection process.

Join the Session Here

Come SOAR with us!

Throughout July, Queen’s University hosts Student Orientation to Academics and Resources or “SOAR”! Delivered by the Student Experience Office with support from BHSc Program Office, and part of First-Year Foundation, SOAR helps you get a head start on university life:

Learn what to expect academically
Discover campus resources
Meet your peers
And get answers to all your questions

All month long you can join live virtual events or explore on-demand content whenever it works for you. By the end of SOAR, you'll feel confident, connected, and ready to take on Queen's this fall!

What events are can you join?

From July 2-31, SOAR offers daily live events and fun ways to learn about university life, academics, and resources − featuring socials, coffee chats, webinars, and Viva Engage! You can join events in two ways:

Through Viva Engage. Watch your Queen's email on July 2nd for your Viva Engage invite. Didn't get it by July 3rd? Email student.experience@queensu.ca.
Join one (or more) of the many live webinars! Check out the event schedule here - https://www.queensu.ca/studentexperience/event-calendar

The Bachelor of Health Sciences Program will be hosting events just for BHSc students to introduce you to professors, program staff, current students, and your fellow incoming students and to help you feel prepared for your courses this Fall. We hope you’ll join us for the following events:

BHSc Course Registration Session: Monday, July 14th @ 2pm - Unsure of how to enroll in your Health Sciences courses or what prerequisites you may need for your degree plan? Join Alana Korczynski (Programs Manager) & Dr. Nikki Philbrook (Program Director) along with current BHSc students to review the course registration process. Join the session here!

BHSc Course Quick Fires: Wednesday, July 16th @ 2pm - This “Quick Fires” session will help familiarize you with course content and to introduce you to your instructors for 3 of your first-year Bachelor of Health Sciences core courses. This session will include a brief course overview of each course and an opportunity to ask the instructor any questions you may have. The courses covered will be:

PHAR 100 Introductory Pharmacology
IDIS 173 History and Philosophy of Health and Healthcare
HSCI 190 Statistics for the Health Sciences

Join the session here!

BHSc Student Life Session: Friday, July 18th @ 2pm - Connect with upper-year BHSc students, including this year’s Orientation Head Leader and Health Sciences Society President, and ask them any questions that you may have about the program and student life at Queen’s. Join the session here!

We hope to see you but if you miss a session, no problem! Many SOAR webinars are recorded and ready to view within 2-3 business days. View Webinar Recordings.

Learn more

Our Orientation team can't wait to welcome you to Queen's!

Orientation Week is an optional student-led initiative that provides first-year students an introduction to life at Queen's University. Participants will have opportunities to meet their peers, learn about the resources available at Queen's, engage in extracurricular activities, and get to know their new home.

The information shared in many of the orientation sessions will build on the information provided for you during Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR) and FYF 100. If you haven’t accessed the FYF 100 resources on onQ, we hope you take the time to look through the materials - it may help clear up some questions you may have and save you an unnecessary email or two! 

The Orientation events and sessions will allow for you to get information specific to the BHSc program, while meeting and having an amazing time with the people you'll have classes with! 

Learn more about Orientation Week here

Welcome to the Bachelor of Health Sciences community.

Important Dates

Queen's Next Steps Page

SOLUS

Student Registration Guide

onQ

Registering in Courses

Course Registration Webinar

Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR)

Come SOAR with us!

What events are can you join?

Orientation Week

Our Orientation team can't wait to welcome you to Queen's!