Four year plan for an honors physics major
Almost all honors students will require individual schedule consideration due to their having taken a variety of courses before coming into our course track. This is only a sequence guide to indicate what we expect as background for the various succeeding stages of our coursework.
Semester 1
PHYS 161H (Intro Mechanics)
4
MATH 129H (Calculus II)
3
ENGL 103/4/9H
3
Tier 1 Gen Ed
3
Tier 1 Gen Ed
3
16
Semester 2
PHYS 162H (Thermo, Optics)
4
MATH 223H (Vector Calc)
4
CHEM 151 *
4
Tier 1 Gen Ed
3
PHYS105A (Intro Computing)
1
16
Semester 3
PHYS 261H (Intro Elec & Magn)
4
PHYS 263H (Modern Phys)
3
MATH 254 (Diff Eqns)
3
Tier 1 Gen Ed
3
Elective
3
16
Semester 4
PHYS 204 (Math Meth)
3
PHYS 305 (Comput PHYS)
3
PHYS 321H (Theor Mech I)
3
Tier 2 Gen Ed
3
Elective
3
16
Semester 5
PHYS 331H (Intermed E & M I)
3
PHYS 371H (Quantum Theory I)
3
PHYS 381 (Advanced Lab I)
2
Tier 2 Gen Ed
3
Elective
3
14
Semester 6
PHYS 332H (Intermed E & M II)
3
PHYS 472H (Quantum Theory II)
3
PHYS 382 (Advanced Lab II)
2
Tier 2 Gen Ed
3
Elective
3
14
Semester 7
PHYS 426H (Thermo & Stat Mech)
3
PHYS 498H (Thesis)
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
15
Semester 8
PHYS elective
3
PHYS elective
3
PHYS 498H (Thesis)
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
15
Notes
- Assumption is that Honors students arrive with AT LEAST 3 credits of English AP or place into English 109H which replaces both 103/4H.
- 30 honors credits needed to graduate with Honors. Every course that is co-convened with a graduate course should also be offered for Honors credit.
- The physics department recommends that its majors take CHEM 151 and 152.
- Use one of the Tier 2 GenEds to satisfy the diversity requirement.
- Care must be taken to meet the requirement for 42 units of upper-division credit. This means that some of the electives may need to be upper-division courses.