Science Academic Plans

This Academic Plan, which offers the Honours Earth and Chemistry courses integrated with five four-month work terms, extends over four and two-thirds years. Students work and study in alternate terms starting at the end of the 2A term. There is a double work term between terms 3B and 4A. Co-op program information requirements are located in the Co-operative Education and Career Action section of this Calendar and in the Science Faculty work term report guidelines. Information on WatPD courses is located on the Professional Developmentwebsite. 

Continuation in Honours Geochemistry requires a 60% cumulative overall average and a 60% cumulative average in all Chemistry and Earth Science courses combined.

Successful completion of this program requires:

1. 22 total units that include:
   • 5.75 CHEM units: CHEM 100, CHEM 120, CHEM 120L, CHEM 123, CHEM 123L, CHEM 200, CHEM 212, CHEM 220, CHEM 220L, CHEM 221, CHEM 224L, CHEM 254, CHEM 264, and CHEM 323
   • 6.75 EARTH units: EARTH 121, EARTH 121L, EARTH 122, EARTH 122L, EARTH 123, EARTH 123L, EARTH 221, EARTH 231, EARTH 232, EARTH 235, EARTH 238, EARTH 321, EARTH 390, EARTH 421, and EARTH 458
   • 0.5 EARTH elective unit: EARTH 281 or EARTH 358
   • 0.5 EARTH elective unit: EARTH 436A or EARTH 499
   • 0.5 EARTH elective unit: EARTH 436B or a 300-level or higher EARTH course
   • 1.0 MATH unit: MATH 127 and MATH 128
   • 1.5 PHYS units: PHYS 111/PHYS 111L or PHYS 121/PHYS 121L and PHYS 112/PHYS 112L or PHYS 122/PHYS 122L
   • 0.5 STAT unit: STAT 202
   • 5.0 electives units distributed as follows:
   • 1.5 units of CHEM electives chosen from CHEM 265, CHEM 310, CHEM 313, CHEM 350, CHEM 360, CHEM 400, and CHEM 404
   • 1.5 units of EARTH electives chosen from EARTH 331, EARTH 332, EARTH 359, EARTH 439, EARTH 456, EARTH 459, and EARTH 471
   • 2.0 units of elective courses chosen from any 0.5 unit courses
2. Normally, full-time enrolment in Years Two, Three and Four
3. A minimum of four work terms, submission of a minimum of four satisfactory work reports and credit in four WatPD courses (PD1, PD11 and two other PD courses)
4. Completion of the English Language Proficiency Requirement

Notes

1. Students may have co-supervisors from the Chemistry Department for the EARTH 436A and EARTH 436B Honours Thesis.
2. The Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO) requires specific university credits to be considered for accreditation. Students should refer to the APGO website to guide their course elective choices.

Recommended Course Sequence

Year One

Fall

CHEM 100 Introduction to Chemical Sciences
CHEM 120/CHEM 120L Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter/Laboratory
EARTH 123 Introductory Hydrology
EARTH 121/EARTH 121L Introductory Earth Sciences/Laboratory
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
PHYS 111/PHYS 111L Physics 1/Laboratory
  or PHYS 121/PHYS 121L Mechanics /Laboratory

Winter

CHEM 123/CHEM 123L Chemical Reactions, Equilibria and Kinetics/Laboratory
EARTH 122/EARTH 122L Introductory Environmental Sciences/Laboratory
MATH 128 Calculus 2 for the Sciences
PHYS 112/PHYS112L Physics 2/ Laboratory
  or PHYS 122/PHYS 122L Waves, Electricity and Magnetism/Laboratory

Year Two

Fall

CHEM 200 Introduction to Laboratory Techniques
CHEM 220/CHEM 220L Analytical Chemistry 1/Laboratory
CHEM 264 Organic Chemistry 1
EARTH 123L Field Methods in Hydrology
EARTH 231 Mineralogy
EARTH 235 Stratigraphy and Earth History

Spring

CHEM 221 Multi-Component Analysis
CHEM 224L Analytical Chemistry Laboratory 2
CHEM 254 Introductory Chemical Thermodynamics
EARTH 221 Geochemistry 1
Two electives (1.0 unit)

Year Three

Winter

Fall

CHEM 323 Analytical Instrumentation
EARTH 458 Physical Hydrogeology
STAT 202 Introduction to Statistics
Two electives (1.0 unit)

Year Four

Fall

Winter