Why are there 2 different types of math & physics courses at Guelph?
The B.Sc. program has been designed to give you a common year of science, no matter whether you are following a biological or physical science major. All first year students within the B.Sc. program with take: Biology, Chemistry, Math & Physics, plus two other courses in their first year. The difference lies in the fact that some courses offer a biological or physical flavour. When you look at the options in physics, Guelph offers a set of “biological” physics (PHYS*1070 and PHYS*1080) and a set of “physical” physics (PHYS*1000 and PHYS*1010) courses. Each set of these courses cover very similar content, it is only the examples that are used and the problems that are assigned, that make the courses different. This creates two different streams where common interests are kept together. In the case of first year mathematics, this is dependent upon what type of background your major requires. Biological majors require either one calculus (MATH*1080) and a statistics (STAT*2040), or two ca
