Advisor: Professor M. Coniglio
The three-year General program allows students to specialize to a limited extent in a particular subject area or to pursue a broad range of Science subjects. However, students graduate with the "General Science" degree with no area of specialization designated.
Students must maintain an overall cumulative average of 55% and a cumulative average of 55% in all Science courses to be able to continue in Years Two and Three of the General Science Plan. Students are encouraged to take at least 2.0 units from non-science areas, such as Arts or Mathematics. Normally, 5.0 lecture units are taken per year.
In order to graduate with a three-year General degree, the following requirements must be met:
- Successful completion of 15.0 units with a cumulative overall average of 55% and a cumulative average of 55% in all Science courses. Of the 15.0 units:
- 14.0 must be lecture units (no more than 1.0 lab unit can be counted);
- at least 7.5 must be Science units, and 2.0 of these must be lecture units from the Year One offerings in two different disciplines;
- at least 7.5 must be at or above the 200-level;
- at least 1.0 unit must be in Mathematics. (i.e., ACTSC, AMATH, CM, CO, CS, STAT, MATH, PMATH, not MATH 103, or any COMM or MTHEL courses).
- Completion of the English Language Proficiency Examination (ELPE)
- No more than 3.0 "SCI"-labelled units, exclusive of SCBUS 122, 123, 223, 323, 423, 424, 425, and SCI 237. "SCI"-labelled courses taken beyond 3.0 units will be counted as electives. SCBUS courses do not count as Science courses.
- No more than 5.0 failed units will be allowed.
Year One
5.0 lecture units, and associated laboratory units.
At least two of (a), (b), (c), or (d) must be taken:
a) Any two 100- or 200-level BIOL courses plus labs;
b) EARTH 121/122 plus labs, Introductory Earth Sciences/Introductory Environmental Sciences;
c) CHEM 120/123 plus labs, Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics;
d) PHYS 111/112 Physics 1 and 2 plus labs or PHYS 121/122 Mechanics and Waves 1 and 2 plus labs, or PHYS 121/112 plus labs, Mechanics and Waves 1/Physics 2.
It is recommended that the required Mathematics unit be taken in First Year.
NOTE: 200-level Biology courses used to satisfy First-Year Science requirements may not be used to satisfy upper year requirements. Any 100-level Biology courses taken beyond the 1.0 unit used as a First-Year Science requirement will be counted as 200-level Biology courses exclusive of BIOL 112.
Years Two and Three
5.0 units of which 2.0 or 3.0 should normally be in Science.