Hey,
I'm from Boston, but I go to school at McGill. It's in Montreal, Canada. I want to become a doctor. I had no clue how hardcore and specific degrees are here. 120 credits is the 4 years...but 95 of them come from straight chemistry courses. The remaining come from other SCIENCE electives like biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy etc...We are allowed to take only a few very non science courses. When we graduate, we're actual chemists...I mean we even get the training here...which is great...IF you want to do it for a living...I don't! I hate chemistry soo much!! The 15 people graduating from chemistry this year...only 3 of them even applied to grad school in chem(the rest, smart people, want to do something else)....and all 3 of them got spots at top schools in the US, Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Pretty much our graduates can skip the masters degree and go right into PhD. Profs like it because theses grad students will only have to take the MOST 2 courses in grad school..the rest is all research (since we have done practically every chem course).
For example....some CHEM courses I've taken: Gen Chem 1,2; Inorg 1,2,3; Org 1,2,3,4; Analytical 1,2; Instrumental 1,2; Integrated Inorg/Org 1,2; Quantum Mechanics 1,2,3; Stat Mech; Phys Chem 1,2; Kinetics...etc... 4 out of the 5 days a week I'm in the lab from 1h00pm-5h30pm and the 5th day I'm TAing org chem lab from 1h00-5h30pm. Pretty much I want to puke at this point. If anyone is considering doing sciences in schools in Canada, especially McGill....only come here if you want to be a scientist....if you want Med School....DON't COME HERE!!!
Hoomsy