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HONORS SPECIALIZATION IN GEOPHYSICS

Admission Requirements
Completion of first-year requirements with no failures. Students must have an average of at least 70% and no mark less than 60% in the 3.0 principal courses taken, including:

1.0 course: Calculus 1000A/B, 1500A/B or the former Calculus 1100A/B;  and one of Calculus 1301A/B, 1501A/B, Applied Mathematics 1413.

1.0 course from: (Physics 1301A/B or 1501A/B) and (Physics 1302A/B or 1502A/B); or the former Physics 1020, 1024, or Physics 1028A/B and 1029A/B with an average of at least 80%. 

1.0 course from: Earth Sciences 1022A/B, 1023A/B, 1070A/B, 1081A/B, 1083F/G, Chemistry 1024A/B, 1301A/B, 1302A/B, or the former Chemistry 1100A/B, 1200B, 1050, Mathematics 1600A/B or the former Linear Algebra 1600A/B.

Note: At least a 0.5 course in Earth Sciences is recommended in first year. If not taken in first year, Mathematics 1600A/B or the former Linear Algebra 1600A/B must be completed before the beginning of third year.

Module
9.5 courses:

2.0 courses: Earth Sciences 2200A/B, 2220A/B, 2222A/B, 2250Y.
0.5 course from: Earth Sciences 2201A/B, 2206A/B.
0.5 course: Applied Mathematics 2402A or the former Differential Equations 2402A.
1.0 course: Physics 2110A/B and 2910F/G.
1.0 course from: Calculus 2502A/B and 2503A/B or Calculus 2302A/B and 2303A/B.
0.5 course from: Applied Mathematics 3815A/B, Statistical Sciences 2141A/B, 2143A/B.
2.5 courses from: Earth Sciences 3320A/B, 3321A/B, 3323A/B, 4420A/B, 4421A/B, 4424A/B, 4451Z.
0.5 course from: Earth Sciences 4423A/B, 4425A/B.
1.0 course: Earth Sciences 4490E with a mark of at least 70%.
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