Planetary Sciences Honours (B.Sc.)

78 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (66 credits)

  • EPSC 210 Introductory Mineralogy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 212 Introductory Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 220 Principles of Geochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 231 Field School 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • EPSC 233 Earth and Life Through Time (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 240 Geology in the Field (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 303 Structural Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 320 Elementary Earth Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 340 Earth and Planetary Inference (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 350 Tectonics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 423 Igneous Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 480D1 Honours Research Thesis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 480D2 Honours Research Thesis (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 510 Climate and Geodynamics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 570 Cosmochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • 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
  • MATH 317 Numerical Analysis (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MATH 319 Partial Differential Equations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHYS 340 Majors Electricity and Magnetism (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Complementary Courses (12 credits)

3 credits from: (3 credits)

3 credits from:

  • PHYS 230 Dynamics of Simple Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHYS 251 Honours Classical Mechanics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

9 credits (three courses) chosen from the following: Note: Courses at the 300 level or higher in other departments in the Faculties of Science and Engineering m (9 credits)

9 credits (three courses) chosen from the following: Note: Courses at the 300 level or higher in other departments in the Faculties of Science and Engineering may also be used as complementary credits, with the permission of the Director of undergraduate studies.

  • EPSC 334 Invertebrate Paleontology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 425 Sediments to Sequences (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 445 Metamorphic Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 501 Crystal Chemistry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 519 Isotopes in Earth and Environmental Science (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 520 Earthquake Physics and Geology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 530 Volcanology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 547 Modelling Geochemical Processes (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 548 Igneous Petrogenetic Mechanisms (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 550 Selected Topics 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 551 Selected Topics 2 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 552 Selected Topics 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EPSC 561 Ore-forming Processes (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 567 Advanced Volcanology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 590 Applied Geochemistry Seminar (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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