Introduction

Physics and astronomy are quantitative sciences which employ the scientific method of observation, experiment and systemization of the results of experiment. Their objectives are to seek to understand the ways in which the most fundamental or elementary systems in nature really operate.

Courses in the Department of Physics and Astronomy cover basic elements of the major topics delineated during the last 200 years in these rapidly developing fields of knowledge. There are certain required courses which expose each student to the broad spectrum of physical phenomena and in an elementary way to the techniques of the theoretical physicist or astronomer in numerical analysis and modelling and of the experimental physicist or observational astronomer in measurement, observation and the apparatus of experiment. In developing programs of 3000- and 4000-level courses, students may concentrate their interests around experimental physics, theoretical physics, or astronomy and astrophysics. There are opportunities to develop Honours Double Major and Honours Major/Minor programs with other disciplines in the Faculty of Science and Engineering or in other faculties.
The department offers Specialized Honours Applied Science Streams in Applied Physics and in Space Science, developed to meet the needs of rapidly expanding technologies in these fields.

Offers programs in:

Biophysics (BSc)
Physics & Astronomy - Applied Physics Stream (BSc)
Physics & Astronomy - Astronomy Stream (BSc)
Physics & Astronomy - Physics Stream (BSc)
*Space Science¹ (BSc)

¹ - through the Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering