How U of T’s history shapes today’s science courses

If you were a first-year student studying civil engineering at U of T in 1860, your classes would include Euclidean Math, Statics and Dynamics, Astronomy, English, French, Chemistry and Chemical Physics, and Elementary Mineralogy and Geology. If you did well enough, you could also receive a scholarship worth thirty British pounds.

Over 150 years later, studying at U of T is an entirely different experience. But one might wonder how this unfamiliar past has shaped the present.