Atmospheric Science and Physics Major (B.Sc.)
67 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue
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Required Courses (54 credits)
- ATOC 214 Introduction: Physics of the Atmosphere (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 309 Weather Radars and Satellites (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 312 Rotating Fluid Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 315 Thermodynamics and Convection (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- COMP 208 Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- MATH 222 Calculus 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- MATH 223 Linear Algebra (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- MATH 314 Advanced Calculus (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- MATH 315 Ordinary Differential Equations (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- PHYS 230 Dynamics of Simple Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 232 Heat and Waves (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 241 Signal Processing (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 257 Experimental Methods 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 333 Thermal and Statistical Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 340 Majors Electricity and Magnetism (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 342 Majors Electromagnetic Waves (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 346 Majors Quantum Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Complementary Courses (12-13 credits)
3 credits selected from: (3 credits)
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9-10 credits selected from: (9–10 credits)
9-10 credits selected from:
- ATOC 357 Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Laboratory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 404 Climate Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 480 Honours Research Project (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
- ATOC 512 Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 513 Waves and Stability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 515 Turbulence in Atmosphere and Oceans (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ATOC 517 Boundary Layer Meteorology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ATOC 521 Cloud Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 525 Atmospheric Radiation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 531 Dynamics of Current Climates (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 540 Synoptic Meteorology 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 541 Synoptic Meteorology 2 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ATOC 548 Mesoscale Meteorology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- ATOC 557 Research Methods: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- ATOC 558 Numerical Methods and Laboratory (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
- ATOC 568 Ocean Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- COMP 551 Applied Machine Learning (4 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- PHYS 331 Topics in Classical Mechanics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 339 Measurements Laboratory in General Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 404 Climate Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 432 Physics of Fluids (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
- PHYS 434 Optics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
- PHYS 449 Majors Research Project (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
- PHYS 512 Computational Physics with Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
Source: McGill Course Catalogue. myDegree is an independent student project, not affiliated with McGill University.