Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
PHY385H1
Introductory Optics
What was the average?
C+
2.3 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Winter 2025.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Low
A small number of terms, so read it as a range.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceAn introduction to the physics of light. Topics covered include: electromagnetic waves and propagation of light; the Huygens and Fermat principles; geometrical optics and optical instruments; interference of waves and diffraction; polarization; introduction to photons, lasers, and optical fibers.
- Exclusions
- ECE318H1
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 20 practical
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Winter 20251 term observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
How well we know this course
2015–2024Pyko’s archive holds 7 documents for PHY385H1, across 3 years between 2015 and 2024.
- 3
- Final exams
- 4
- Problem sets
Counts, not a library. Pyko does not host or distribute course files, and this page is not an offer to supply one — the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed, which matters most where no syllabus has been verified.
What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | Faculty of Arts & Science | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 1 term | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 7 archived documents, 2015-2024 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
1 course list PHY385H1 as a prerequisiteListing a course here means it names PHY385H1 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what PHY385H1 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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