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Honours Chemical Physics
The Physics and Chemistry Combined Honours program below has been agreed upon between the respective departments but has not yet gone through the Faculty of Science and the University Senate. It represents a substantial change from the existing combined chemistry and physics Honours program. In particular there are significantly less required courses and more electives. Students already in the program should consult with faculty advisors on the extent to which they should follow the new or old program.
Students who intend to continue in graduate school in Physics should note that program requires less math than normal for an undergraduate Honours degree and should consider choosing MATH 300, 301, 318 or 400. Students heading for graduate school in Chemistry should consult advisor about additional Chemistry courses.
This program has, historically, been quite difficult to schedule together as written. Although this has been largely cleared up in recent years, students should approach the following as a list of required courses and a recommended order to take them in. Beyond first year, the order these courses are taken in is not extremely important, so long as they are all completed.
You may notice on further investigation that several courses listed below have prerequisites not listed below (e.g. CHEM 320). IA different required course is deemed to be an adequate replacement prerequisite (e.g. PHYS 304 for CHEM 320). This was done to reduce overlap and free up space in the program.
Science
One may be taken in place of the first-year Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics
courses and he Biology requirement. If you want to take a co-op version of this
program, you will be largely designing your own program. It's been done before,
and may come in handy when trying to get a job later on or for trying to pay
for your education, but involves some frustration and extra effort. This can
extend your degree to five or six years. The Physics 449 Honours Thesis course
now allows you to do a thesis in the spring and following fall, aside from the
usual September-to-April system, for students planning to graduate in January.
Contact Dr. Ariel Zhitnitsky for more information.
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HONOURS CHEMICAL PHYSICS |
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First Year |
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ENGL 100-level |
6 |
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CHEM 121, 123 (or 111, 112) |
8 |
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MATH 120 (or 100 or 102 or 104) |
4-3 |
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MATH 121 (or 101 or 103 or 105) |
4-3 |
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PHYS 107,108,109 (or 101, 102) |
8-6 |
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Electives1 |
6 |
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Total Credits |
36-33 |
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Second Year |
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CHEM 202, 201 |
6 |
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CHEM 203, 204 |
8 |
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MATH 2172, 223(221), 215 |
10 |
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PHYS 200, 206 |
6 |
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PHYS 209 |
3 |
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Electives1 |
3 |
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Total Credits |
36 |
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Third Year |
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CHEM 304 |
3 |
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CHEM 320 |
3 |
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MATH 316 |
3 |
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PHYS 301 |
3 |
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PHYS 304 |
3 |
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PHYS 308 (258) |
3-2 |
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PHYS 309 (319) |
3 |
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Elective1 |
15 |
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Total Credits |
35-36 |
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Fourth Year |
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CHEM 401 |
3 |
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CHEM 449 or PHYS 449 |
6 |
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PHYS 303 |
3 |
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PHYS 308 |
3 |
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Additional Physics as per consultation3 |
6 |
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Additional Chemistry as per consultation4 |
9 |
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Elective2 |
3 |
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Total Credits |
33 |
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Minimum credits to graduate |
136 |
1. Electives must include twelve credits of Arts in addition to 100 English. Students without Biology 11 or 12 must take a 100-level BIOL course. Students with Biology 11 and 12 must include 3 credits of either ASTR, BIOL, EOSC or science credit GEOG or PSYCH.
2. Math 217 can be replaced by Math 200 and 317.
3. Recommended courses PHYS 401,402,410,474.
4. Must include at least one course numbered 400 or higher.
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