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Science Academic Plans

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Honours Co-operative Geochemistry
Advisors: See Faculty of Science, academic advisors.

This program 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 (CECA) section of this Calendar and in the Science Faculty work-term report guidelines. Information on WatPD courses is located on the Professional Development website. 

Continuing in Honours Co-operative 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. 21.25 total units that include:
    • 4.5 electives units distributed as follows:
      • 1.5 units of elective courses chosen from any 0.5 unit courses
  2. Normally, full-time enrolment in Years Two, Three, and Four
  3. Co-operative education requirements that include:

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 121/EARTH 121L Introductory Earth Sciences/Laboratory
EARTH 123 Introductory Hydrology
MATH 127 Calculus 1 for the Sciences
PHYS 111 Physics 1
  or PHYS 121 Mechanics

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 Physics 2
  or PHYS 122 Waves, Electricity and Magnetism
SCCOM 100 Communication in the Sciences

Year Two


Fall
CHEM 220/CHEM 220L Intro Analytical Chemistry/Laboratory
CHEM 264 Organic Chemistry 1
EARTH 231 Mineralogy
EARTH 235 Stratigraphic Approaches to Understanding Earth's History
One elective (0.5 unit)
Spring

CHEM 221 Multi-Component Analysis
CHEM 224L Analytical Chemistry Laboratory 2
CHEM 254 Introductory Chemical Thermodynamics
EARTH 221 Geochemistry 1
One electives (0.5 unit)


Year Three


Winter

CHEM 212 Structure and Bonding
EARTH 232 Petrography
EARTH 238 Introductory Structural Geology
EARTH 321 Introduction to Geomicrobiology
EARTH 358 Earth System Science
  or EARTH 281 Geological Impacts on Human Health
EARTH 390 Methods in Geological Mapping

Fall
CHEM 323 Analytical Instrumentation
EARTH 223 Field Methods in Hydrology
EARTH 458 Physical Hydrogeology
STAT 202 Introduction to Statistics
One elective (0.5 unit)

Year Four


Fall
EARTH 436A Honours Thesis
 or EARTH 499 Research Project
EARTH 421 Geochemistry 2
Three electives (1.5 units)
Winter
EARTH 436B Honours Thesis
 or one 300-level or 400-level EARTH course
Three electives (1.5 units)

 


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