Earth Sciences (Honours) (BSc)

Year 1

• ERSC 1P01 - Planet Earth - Solid Earth
• ERSC 1P02 - Planet Earth - Surface Processes
• BIOL 1P91 - Introduction to Biology I
• BIOL 1P92 - Introduction to Biology II
• CHEM 1P91 - Chemical Principles and Properties I
• CHEM 1P92 - Chemical Principles and Properties II
• MATH 1P97 - Calculus With Applications
• STAT 1P98 - Practical Statistics
• one Humanities context credit   or one Social Sciences context credit  

Year 2

• ERSC 2P03 - The History of the Earth
• ERSC 2P05 - Earth Surface Processes
• ERSC 2P16 - Clastic Sedimentology
• ERSC 2P18 - Introduction to Plate Tectonics
• ERSC 2P24 - Mineralogy II: Crystallography and Optics
• ERSC 2P93 - Mineralogy I: Minerals and Rocks
• one-half ERSC credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 (see program note 10 )

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• PHYS 1P21 - Introductory Physics I

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• PHYS 1P91 - Introductory Physics I with Laboratory (recommended; see program note 1 )

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• PHYS 1P22 - Introductory Physics II

• OR

• PHYS 1P92 - Introductory Physics II with Laboratory (recommended; see program note 6 )

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• one-half elective credit (see program note 6 )

Year 3

• ERSC 3P01 - Structural Geology
• ERSC 3P11 - Chemical and Carbonate Sedimentology
• ERSC 3P12 - Stratigraphy
• ERSC 3P21 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
• ERSC 3P31 - Geochemistry

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• ERSC 3P24 - Glacial Geomorphology/Geology

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• ERSC 3P25 - Quaternary Geology

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• one-half ERSC credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above
• the Humanities context credit    or Social Sciences context credit   (not taken in year 1)
• one-half elective credit

Year 4

• Three and one-half ERSC credits numbered 3(alpha)90 and above (see program notes 9 and 10 )
• one elective credit (see program note 6 )

Pass Program

Satisfactory completion of the first three years of the Honours program entitles a student to apply for a Pass degree.