Bachelor of Science Degree:
Major in Physics
Required courses for a Major program in Physics are as follows.
First Year Courses One of the following:
BIOL 1110 Principles of Biology I
BIOL 1210 Principles of Biology 2
GEOL 1110 Introduction to Physical Geology
GEOL 2050 Geological Time
CHEM 1500 Chemical Bonding and Organic Chemistry
CHEM 1510 Fundamentals of Chemistry; or
CHEM 1520 Principles of Chemistry
COMP 1520 Principles of Software Development; or
COMP 1110 Computer Programming 1
ENGL 1100 Composition; or
ENGL 1110 Introduction to Prose; or
3 additional credits of academic English
MATH 1130 Enriched Calculus I (or MATH 1140)
MATH 1230 Enriched Calculus II (or Math 1240)
PHYS 1100 Fundamentals of Physics I (or PHYS 1150)
PHYS 1200 Fundamentals of Physics II (or PHYS 1250)
+ Elective courses
Second Year Courses
ENGL 2290 Professional Business and Technical Writing; or
ENGL 2300 Critical Thinking and Writing for Science and Technology
MATH 2110 Calculus 3
MATH 2120 Linear Algebra 1
MATH 2240 Differential Equations 1
MATH 3170 Calculus 4
PHYS 2000 Relativity and Quanta
PHYS 2150 Circuit Analysis
PHYS 2200 Mechanics
PHYS 2250 Intermediate Electromagnetism
+ Elective courses
Third and Fourth Year Courses
PHYS 3080 Optics
PHYS 3090 Analog Electronics
PHYS 3100 Digital Electronics
PHYS 3120 Introduction to Mathematical Physics
PHYS 3160 Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
PHYS 3200 Advanced Mechanics
PHYS 3250 Advanced Electromagnetism
PHYS 3400 Principles and Applications of Quantum Mechanics 1
PHYS 4400 Principles and Applications of Quantum Mechanics 2
+ Physics and general electives