General Education Courses

General Education Courses in Physics

The department currently offers these semester courses for general education (Number of Credits):

• Physics 100 (3) - Cultural Physics
• Physics 101 (3) - Introductory Physics
• Physics 102 (3) - Physics in the World Around Us
• Physics 105 (3) - Time, Atomic Clocks, and Relativity
• Physics 211 (4) - Principles of Physics
• Physics 221 (5) - General Physics

For descriptions of these courses, see the Physics Undergraduate Course Descriptions.

Physics 100 and Physics 105 are self-paced courses; all the other physics general education courses have a standard format.

There are no prerequisites for these courses except for Physics 211/212 and Physics 221/222; see the Physics Undergraduate Course Descriptions (31KB PDF).