1^st Year Courses

Total: 30 Units

Required:

• Chemistry 1A03, 1AA3
• Math 1A03, 1AA3
• Physics 1B03
• 1 of: Physics 1BA3, 1BB3
• Science 1A00

Electives: 6 units

• 2 courses from Physical Sciences I Course List
  ASTRON 1F03; BIOLOGY 1A03, 1M03; COMP SCI 1FC3, 1MA3, 1MD3;
  ENVIR SC 1A03, 1B03, 1G03; GEOG 1HA3, 1HB3; KIN 1Y03,1YY3; MATH
  1B03; MED PHYS 1E03; PHYSICS 1L03; PSYCH 1X03, 1XX3

Note: The unit value of a particular course is indicated by the last digit of the course code (e.g. 1A03 = 3 units). Students are also responsible to ensure that the necessary prerequisites needed to proceed to Level I are completed in a timely manner.

Facilities

• Newly renovated teaching labs
• Undergrad study room/lounge
• State-of the-art research labs
• Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research
• McMaster Nuclear Reactor
• The Origins Institute
• SharcNet high performance computing network
• William J. McCallion Planetarium

Beyond 1^st Year

Students from any Level I Science program can, through careful Level I course selection, pursue any Level II program noted below.

Honours Bachelor of Science (Hons. B.Sc.) Programs

• Honours Biochemistry
• Biotechnology Specialization
• Biomedical Sciences Specialization
• Honours Biology
• Physiology Specialization
• Honours Molecular Biology and Genetics
• Honours Biology & Environmental Sciences
• Honours Biology & Mathematics
• Honours Biology & Pharmacology (begins in Level III)
• Honours Biology & Psychology
• Honours Chemical Biology
• Honours Chemistry
• Honours Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Honours Environmental Sciences
• Honours Geography & Environmental Sciences
• Honours Life Sciences
• Honours Mathematics & Computer Science
• Honours Mathematics & Physics
• Honours Mathematics & Statistics
• Mathematics Specialization
• Statistics Specialization
• Honours Medical Physics
• Honours Physics
• Astrophysics Specialization
• Biophysics Specialization
• Honours Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
• Music Cognition Specialization

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Programs

• Environmental Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Mathematical Science
• Physical Sciences

Careers or Options Beyond This Program

Students pursuing an undergraduate degree in Physics develop a deeper understanding of how the world works and acquire a powerful set of
mathematical and problem-solving skills that are immediately transferable to a wide variety of fields. Graduates of the Honours Physics program automatically qualify for Teacher’s College at the High School Level (with “teachables” in Physics and
Mathematics). They are also well-prepared for Law School and, with a strategic selection of electives, for Medical School, Dentistry, and graduate school in
a number of areas, including Physics, Astrophysics, Biophysics, Engineering Physics, Geophysics, Materials Engineering, Meteorology, Physical Chemistry, Economics and Finance. Our Graduates have found careers in:

• aerospace Industry
• education
• energy sector
• finance
• government labs
• hi tech industry
• industrial R & D
• law
• manufacturing
• industry
• medicine and medical
• industry
• nuclear industry
• fundamental
• research…and much more!

Co-op/Internship

A co-op program in Honours Physics is available beginning in Level
II. It is a five-year program that includes two 8-month work terms.

Employment rates in this program have been consistently at 100%, with students spending work terms at industrial facilities, research institutions, experimental facilities and space agencies and in a wide variety of areas including:

• astronomy
• astrophysics
• condensed matter physics
• biophysics
• nuclear/particle physics
• physics of materials
• nuclear power physics
• quantum computing

Profiles & Alumni

Evan Sinukoff, B.Sc. Honours Physics Coop, was awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)in the summer of 2008 to work in the department under the supervision of Dr. Christine Wilson on an observational study of nearby galaxies. He followed that research experience with two eight-month coop placements at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland where he worked with a
team of NASA scientists developing new interferometry technology tobe used in future space telescopes.

Allison MacDonald, 5th year Honours Physics Coop, was awarded an NSERC USRA in 2009 to work in the department under the supervision
of Dr. Alan Chen in the area of nuclear astrophysics including participation in an experiment at TRIUMF in Vancouver. She also completed an eight-month coop placement at the Institute for Quantum Computing. Recently, Allison was selected as one of only five Canadian undergraduate students to receive special funding from the Institute for Particle Physics to spend part of Summer 2011 at CERN in Switzerland. She has also been awarded an NSERC USRA to work with a professor
at Simon Frasier University who is a researcher on the ATLAS project.

Program Statistics

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