Study Plan
Study Plan
The department of Physics offers students the opportunity to explore and discover new knowledge about nature. The various areas of current physics are provided to students in an integrated yet diverse program that builds from a solid foundation of the basic elements of physics studies. Students are exposed to modern concepts, state-of-the-art approaches and current methods of experimentation in physics and applied physics within introductory courses. A variety of intermediate courses then provides in-depth exploration of major fields of physics. Advanced students may register for graduate-level courses, which are most often given in the specialized areas of faculty research.
The Bachelor of Science program in Physics is balanced and broad and prepares students with the necessary concepts, tools, and techniques to build their abilities to gain substantial depth and breadth to deal with the universal and cross-functional physics studies needs with the mentality to add value ethically, creatively, realistically, and innovatively.
The intended curriculum provides numerous choices and a variety of courses in the areas of humanities, mathematics, statistics, and sciences. Students will be disciplined with strong cross-functional knowledge links to many other fields such as astronomy, astrophysics, biophysics, chemical physics, computer science, engineering, geophysics, mathematics, medicine, physics teaching, and space sciences, a fact that provides students with a competitive flexibility to pursue allied (or non-allied) interests. The curriculum will arm students with the dynamism to remain current as technologies and systems change.
Physics graduates play instrumental and central roles in the physical sciences, they may seek employment in industry, in national laboratories, or in teaching; they should consider the options in computation, radiation physics, space sciences, biophysics, engineering and teaching, which augment the broad instruction provided by the basic Bachelor of Science in Physics.
To graduate with a BS degree in Physics, a student must complete, in addition to the general, mathematics, and sciences requirements mentioned earlier, a minimum of 39 credits distributed as follows:
- PHY 210, PHY 210L, PHY 220, PHY 220L, PHY 230, PHY 260, PHY 280, PHY 290, PHY 290L, PHY 340, PHY 360 , PHY 370, PHY 380, PHY 430, PHY 440, PHY 497, and PHY 499 .
- A total of 06 credits for technical electives selected from the following courses:PHY 320, PHY 350, PHY 450, PHY 460, PHY 470, PHY 475, PHY 480, PHY 490, and PHY 492.
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