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Physics Major

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Degree Requirements

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

English Literature - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 3-6

Mathematics - Total Credits: 3

Distribution Requirement Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking

Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9

Social Science - Total Credits: 9

Multicultural and International

(see notes below)

Physics Core Requirements - Total Credits: 48

Related Core Requirements - Total Credits: 30-33

Electives - Total Credits: 16

Total Credits: 124

Notes

  1. The Physics Department recommends that students take PHYS 422 and PHYS 424 for the six additional credits of upper-division physics courses needed in the Physics Core Requirement.
  2. Every student must complete a multicultural course and a international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

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