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MEMORANDUM TO SENATE

FROM K. E. Rieckhoff

RE: Interdisciplinary Program

DATE September 22, 1966

Attached is a program of ëourses leading to the degree of

Bachelor of Science with Honours in Chemical Physics which has been

approved by the Faculty of Science in its last meeting of September 22,

1966. Also attached is a memorandum justifying the need and desirability

of such an undergraduate program. The vote in favour of this program

was overwhelming with only one opposing vote. The Faculty is presenting

this program to Senate for its final approval. I should like to take this

opportunity to make a few comments regarding it.

This is the first case of an interdisciplinary program coming

forward to Senate from the Faculty of Science. The details of this

program have been carefully worked out in innumerable discussions within

the Faculty and within the Committee charged with putting the program

together. The Faculty of Science is, as I believe' justly,proud to have

reached since the conception of the idea in May of this year such a tremen-

dous consensus on a program of this kind, particularly in consideration of

the fact that this program straddles two department

, both of which have a

record of jealously guarding the high standards and integrity of their

honours programs. The Faculty has also created,'a Subcommittee of its

Standing Committee on Undergraduate Curriculuni with the express purpose of

ensuring that the program will rema4

n satisfactory and up to date. The

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Faculty is also proud of having been able to constitute the program using

existing courses, thus ensuring that the establishment of this program

will not add one cent to the cost of instruction within these departments.

The Faculty hopes for speedy approval of this program by Senate

since the first student in the Faculty of Science to enter upper division

ourses and thus requiring appropriate counsel, are now on campus. The

program is a difficult one and leave comparatively few choices particularly

in the upper division courses. This may be deplorable but cannot be helped

in any of the honours programs within Science unless funds are provided to

introduce alternate courses to a minimum program.

The implication of Senate's approval would be the following:

the University recommends the program to qualified students as a useful

one and obligates itself to give an Honors B.Sc. to any student satisfying

the requirements for such a degree under this program. Implied is the

readiness of the Departments of Chemistry and Physics to accept students

from this program into graduate work. That is, both the Chemistry Depart-

ment and the Physics Department have faculty who are ready and willing to

supervise the graduate research of students coming from this program into

graduate work.

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SM 3/10/66

Documentation for the Need of an Honours Program

in Chemical Physics

In recent times several research areas such as Material Research,

Molecular Physics and Theoretical Chemistry have assumed a strong inter-

disciplinary position. In universities, research in these areas is sometimes

performed in the Physics Department, sometimes in the Chemistry Department.

In industry, the research teams often consist of a combination of Physicists,

Chemists and Electrical Engineers. The authors of this brief as well as

members of the Physics Department are thoroughly familiar from personal

experience with the background required for a person performing research in

such leading industrial laboratories as Bell Telephone Labs and I.B.M. The

Canadian need is similar. Neither a pure Physics program nor any present

Chemistry program provides a proper background for the purpose, but the

proposed program in Chemical Physics will.

Clearly this need for an interdisciplinary program arises on the under-

graduate level, and cannot be postponed until graduate work for two major

reasons. First of all, many scientists working in these areas in industry

never go beyond the B.Sc., and secondly, the student starting graduate work in

special areas of Physics, including some at our own university, is often right at

the beginning faced with material preparation problems that require an advanced

knowledge of Chemistry, which he would not possess with a straight Physics

degree. Had he gone through a Chemistry Program, such as Physical Chemistry,

he would neither be prepared for research in the Physics Department, nor would

he have the needed pre-requisites for the basic graduate courses offered by our

Physics Department Thu some members of the Physics and Chemistry

Departments would prefer graduate students with the background offered in

Chemical Physics, rather than in straight Physics or Chemistry, and this

is without doubt true for other universities as well. Precedents for a

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program in Chemical Physics are becoming abundantly available. Similar

programs are being offered by McMaster University, McGill, Princeton

and Stanford.

The program will be quite demanding of the student, and an enrollment

smaller than for straight Physics or Chemistry is expected. All courses

recommended in the proposed program are already given at present. No new

courses will be required.

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