Graduate Diploma in Science In Physics

University of Canterbury

This Diploma offers people who hold a bachelor's degree in a major in an unrelated area the opportunity to study science in-depth. It is designed to provide a qualification for graduates seeking to qualify for entry to postgraduate qualifications in science, change career direction, or to extend or upgrade their existing qualifications. Physics aims to understand the behaviour of matter and energy from the scale of subatomic particles to that of the Universe itself. From computers to communication systems, architecture to agriculture modern life is overwhelmingly built using the understanding of nature that physics provides. We are currently in an incredibly exciting period in Physics. The technological advances of the last 20 years have had an enormous impact on all our lives and almost all of these rely on advances in Physics. Modern physics provides a framework for understanding – and contributing to – major advances in technology now and in the future. Study Involve: Te Kura Matu, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences has many collaborations nationally and internationally that give access to some of the best facilities around the world. For example, UC is a member of CERN, the enormous particle accelerator centre in Geneva, and also collaborates with the Van der Veer Institute and hospitals on medical imaging and radiation therapy. UC physicists are currently involved in exciting projects such as building huge laser equipment to study gravitational waves creating tiny nanoelectronic devices that can act as transistors or sensors measuring the behaviour of the upper atmosphere in order to understand global warming obtaining fundamental theoretical understandings of cosmology and sub-atomic physics.

Faculty of Science