Teacher Preparation in Physics: Minor Teaching Field of Physics

  • For an endorsement in the minor teaching field of physics, the following courses are required:
        
Number(s)
  Course Title
Credits
                          
        
221N-222N
or 121N-122N
  Fundamentals of Physics with Calculus I & II
  Fundamentals of Physics I & II
10
        
        
325
  Optics
3
        
        
328
  Methods of Teaching Physics
2
        
        
341
  Fundamentals of Modern Physics
3
        
        
371
  Classical Mechanics I
3
        
        
Astr 131N-132N
  Elementary Astronomy I & II
6
        
        
Math 152-153
  Calculus I & II
8
        
        
Math 311
  Ordinary Differential Equations
3
        
        
Math 251
  Calculus III
4
        
        
Math 241
or Math 341
  Statistics
  Probability and Statistics
3
4
        
        
CS 131
or CS 201
or CS 203
  Fundamentals of Computer Science
  Special Programming Languages
  FORTRAN Programming
3
        
        
Chem 151N
  General and Inorganic Chemistry
3
        
        
Chem 485
  Laboratory Safety
1
        
        
Biol 101N
or Biol 103N
or Biol 120N
or Biol 121N
  Principles of Biology
  Diversity of Life
  General Botany
  Introductory Ecology
3
        
        
  
  Total
55-56