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Physics Major

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Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements

First Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

Second Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 4-6

Mathematics

Distribution Requirement: Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking

Fulfilled by requirements for major

Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9

Social Science - Total Credits: 9

Multicultural and International

(see note 2 below)

Additional Degree Requirements

Physics Core Requirements - Total Credits: 48

Related Core Requirements - Total Credits: 36

Electives - Total Credits: 0-3

Total Credits - 120

Notes

  1. It is strongly recommended that students take SCI 101 to satisfy the First Year Seminar requirement.
  2. Every student must complete a multicultural course and an international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements except once course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

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