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No Specialization Plan

This plan is intended for those students who wish to attain a broader perspective of computational science. As such, it is structured so that students in this plan will have attained sufficient background knowledge of those aspects of chemistry, earth sciences, and physics most likely to be needed for their application of computational methodology to solve problems that they encounter in their careers. Because of the breadth of this plan, it contains an additional twelve core lecture courses and three core lab courses, shown below.  Of the lectur courses three are chemistry, five are earth sciences, three are physics courses, and one course can be taken through either the Department of Chemistry or the Department of Physics and Astronomy; finally, there are nine free elective courses.

Core Courses (6.0 course units + 1.25 lab units)

CHEM 140L Introductory Scientific Calculations Laboratory
CHEM 209 Introductory Spectroscopy and Structure
CHEM 254 Introductory Chemical Thermodynamics
CHEM 340L Introductory Computational Chemistry Laboratory
CHEM 350 Chemical Kinetics
CHEM 356 Introductory Quantum Mechanics
EARTH 123 Introductory Hydrology
EARTH 359 Flow Through Porous Media
EARTH 361 Introduction to Atmospheric Science
EARTH 456 Groundwater Modelling
EARTH 458 Physical Hydrogeology and
   EARTH 458L Field Methods in Hydrogeology
PHYS 139 Scientific Computer Programming
PHYS 239 Scientific Computation 1
PHYS 241/241L Electricity and Magnetism 1/Lab
PHYS 339 Scientific Computation 2

Free Electives (4.5 units)

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