麥科文大學

Why a science degree?

Sometimes the simple answers just won’t do. Your healthy sense of curiosity is too strong to ignore; you’ve got to get to the heart of the issue. You have the patience to hypothesize and experiment until you have found the answer to your question. For you, the journey truly is half the fun.

You can prepare for a career in chemistry, computing science, cell biology, environmental science and many other specializations. Bachelor of Science students develop research skills, analytical skills, technical skills and work ethics that make them valuable commodities in the labour market.

The Bachelor of Science degree at MacEwan University can also be a direct route to a professional program, with its pre-professional streams leading towards degrees in dental hygiene, dentistry, medical laboratory science, medicine, optometry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.

Physical Sciences

Pair the natural sciences (laws of gravity, meteorology, and chemical reactions), and the science that studies non-living systems (vs biology) and you end up with physical sciences.

To major in physical sciences means you choose two of the following disciplines:

• Chemistry
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Physics

and successfully complete the required number of courses. You may also choose to minor in any of the other disciplines offered in the Bachelor of Science program.

Marie Curie (first female Nobel laureate, discovered polonium and radium), Albert Einstein (greatest scientist of the 20th century, proposed the theory of relativity and Sir Isaac Newton (most renown for his description of the laws of motion and laws of universal gravitation) all made significant contributions to the world of physical sciences.

Become a lab technician, urban planner, or teacher. Go into natural resource management, or geological data collection & analysis. Or further your education and find yourself as a research scientist, an engineer, or perhaps in the field of environmental protection.