CURRENT VERSION

Revised 2-23-11

DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
MAJOR: PHYSICS

CURRICULUM

CREDITS

UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 110	Critical Reading and Writing	3
(minimum grade C-)

First Year Experience (FYE)	0-4

University Breadth Requirement	12

Discovery Learning Experience (DLE)

Multi-cultural Courses

COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS

Writing: (minimum grade C-)

A second writing course involving significant writing experience including two papers with a combined minimum of 3,000 words to be submitted for extended faculty critique of both composition and content. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours. Appropriate writing courses are normally designated in the semester's Registration Booklet. (See list of courses approved for second writing requirement.)

College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements: (minimum grade C-)
The College Breadth Requirements are in addition to the University Breadth Requirement. Up to 3 credits from each of the University Breadth Requirement categories may be used to simultaneously satisfy these College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements.

A total of eighteen credits from Groups A, B and C is required with a minimum of six credits in each group. The six credits from each group could be from the same area.

Group A: Creative Arts and Humanities

Group B: History and Cultural Change.

Group C: Social and Behavioral Sciences

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Within the Department
Ordinarily, no more than four credits from among PHYS 201 and PHYS 207 may be counted toward graduation requirements; similarly no more than four from among PHYS 202, PHYS 208. Students interested in majoring in Physics who have taken an introductory sequence other than PHYS 207/PHYS 208 should consult with a member of the Physics faculty to consider the need for additional introductory courses, for which some additional credit toward graduation may be given with permission of the Physics chair. All 200-level PHYS courses used to satisfy prerequisite or graduation requirements must be passed with a minimum grade of C-.

PHYS 169	Perspectives: Physics and Astronomy	1
PHYS 207/PHYS 208	Fundamentals of Physics I and II	8
PHYS 211	Oscillations and Waves	3
PHYS 309	20th/21st Century Physics	3
PHYS 310	Introduction to Thermal Physics	3
PHYS 313	Physical Optics	4
PHYS 419	Classical Mechanics I	3
PHYS 424	Quantum Mechanics	3
PHYS 603	Electricity and Magnetism I	3
Additional credits of Physics at or above the 400 level		15
MATH 241/MATH 242/ MATH 243	Analytic Geometry and Calculus A, B and C	12
BISC 207	Introductory Biology	4

One of the following:		6
MATH 302/MATH 349	Ordinary Differential Equations and Elementary Linear Algebra
MATH 341/MATH 342	Differential Equations with Linear Algebra

One of the following:		4-5
CHEM 103	General Chemistry	4
CHEM 111/CHEM 119	General Chemistry and Quantitative Chemistry	5

Foreign Language or Computer Science:

0-12

Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 112) in a given foreign language. Number of credits needed and initial placement will depend on number of years of high school study of foreign language. Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination.
Or,
Completion of the following Computer Science sequence:

CISC 106 or CISC 108	General Computer Science for Engineers or Introduction to Computer Science I	3
CISC 181	Introduction to Computer Science II	3
CISC 220	Data Structures	3
Additional credits of Computer Science at or above the 260 level		3

ELECTIVES
After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.

CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF

124

PROPOSED VERSION