MATH 120, 121 or
MATH 100, 101 or
MATH 102, 103 or
MATH 104, 105²

¹Advanced Credit or Placement in Physics provide excellent preparation but they are NOT a substitute for these courses, which are required prerequisites for all second year Physics courses in this program. Students without Physics 12 must take PHYS 100 prior to PHYS 101 or PHYS 107.

²First-year physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics can be replaced by Science One (25 credits).

³A total of 6 credits of coursework is required to meet the Communication Requirement. ENGL 112 is recommended. Qualified students are encouraged to consider ENGL 120 and/or 121. For a full list of acceptable courses see Communication Requirements

⁴Electives must be taken to ensure that all Faculty of Science requirements are met:
(a) At least 18 credits must be from the Faculty of Arts, including ENGL credits used to satisfy the Faculty of Science Communication Requirement.
(b) Up to 18 credits may be taken from any faculty but students must ensure that they have at least 48 upper-level credits, including at least 42 upper-level credits from the Faculty of Science.
Students without Biology 11 or 12 must take 3 credits of 100-level BIOL. BIOL 111 or 121 is recommended. For students with Biology 11 or 12, at least 3 credits must be a science course in ASTR, BIOL, EOSC, or GEOB. Students interested in senior chemistry courses or who are planning to enter a career in teaching are reminded that they should take a second course of introductory chemistry. In first year, 2 of the elective credits can be used to take the 4-credit math courses MATH 120 and 121. Some course alternates have different credit value. The number of electives in each year is chosen to balance the total number of credits (i.e., make the yearly total equal to 33). However, since the number of available elective credits may not be a multiple of three, students are permitted to move elective credits between years. A minimum of 30 credits must be taken each Winter Session.

⁵Co-op students can take the Term 1 section of PHYS 209 in the second year, and defer the Term 2 section to the next academic year after returning from the Co-op program (no re-registration in PHYS 209 is required in return).

⁶Computing skills at the level of PHYS 210 are required in the specialization. With written permission of the Undergraduate Advisor, students who already have these skills may replace PHYS 210 with 3 credits of electives.

⁷May be replaced by either MATH 226 + MATH 227 or by MATH 200 + MATH 317 using 3 credits of science elective.

⁸MATH 221 or MATH 152 can be substituted for MATH 223 under exceptional circumstances. MATH 223 can be taken in first year.

⁹It is not recommended but this course may be delayed until 3rd year in exceptional circumstances.

¹⁰Students choose to take PHYS 319 in term 2 will need to delay either MATH 318 or PHYS 401/408 to 4th year.

¹¹Students interested in mathematical physics should take MATH 320 and MATH 321 as electives. At least 3 credits must be a 300- or 400- level physics or astronomy course.

¹²Co-op students may substitute other physics courses with the permission of an undergraduate physics and astronomy advisor.

¹³A minimum of six elective credits must be at least 400-level Physics or Astronomy courses. PHYS 490 is excluded. Suggested upper level electives are ASTR 402, 403, 404; EECE 480; MATH 301 345, 401, 402, 405. 418, 420, 450; PHYS 400, 405, 407, 410, 437, 447, 473, 474. Qualified students are encouraged to take 500-level Physics courses for which they must have permission of the Faculty of Science and the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.