Degrees & Certificates
B.S. with Physical Science Teaching Certification
This program helps you prepare for teaching physical science in the high schools. You may also be interested in physical science teaching certification (listed separately in the undergraduate Bulletin).
You should work closely with your academic advisor to ensure completion of general-education requirements for teacher certification. To be certified to teach, you must have a GPA of 2.00 or higher in the general-education areas of humanities and social and behavioral sciences. Additionally, you must have a GPA of 2.50 or higher in your major and the professional-education course area. Each professional-education course must be completed with a grade of C or better.
The School of Education requires that you first complete EDUA F300, EDUC W200/M101, and EDUC K201 before you are permitted to take professional education courses. Prior to your junior year, you must successfully complete the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) before admission to the teacher education program. The PRAXIS II Specialty Area Exam in Physics must be completed before or during the student-teaching semester, normally in your senior year.
If you wish to transfer to physics teaching from another degree program, you must have an average of C or better in all Physics and mathematics courses you have completed, and not more than one grade below C in those courses.
To earn the B.S. with a major in Physics teaching, you must fulfill the requirements of IPFW (see Part 7 of the undergraduate Bulletin) and the School of Arts and Sciences (see Part 3 of the undergraduate Bulletin) in addition to the following requirements:
Course No. |
Course Title |
Credits |
|---|---|---|
IPFW General Education Requirements |
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Area I—Linguistic and Numerical Foundations |
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| COM 114 | Fundamentals of Speech Communication | 3 |
| One of the following: | 3 | |
| ENG W131 | Elementary Composition I | |
| ENG W140 | Elementary Composition—Honors | |
| MA 165 | Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (credits included in Supporting Courses, below) | 0 |
Area II—Natural and Physical Sciences |
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| CHM 115 | General Chemistry (credits included in Supporting Courses, below) | 0 |
| PHYS 152 | Mechanics (credits included in Major Courses, below) | 0 |
Area III—The Individual, Culture, and Society |
6 |
|
| See Part 2 General Education Requirements for approved courses | ||
Area IV—Humanistic Thought |
6 |
|
| See Part 2 General Education Requirements for approved courses | ||
Area V—Creative and Artistic Expression |
3 |
|
| See Part 2 General Education Requirements for approved courses | ||
Area VI—Inquiry and Analysis (not in PHYS) |
3 |
|
| See Part 2 General Education Requirements for approved courses | ||
School of Arts and Sciences Requirements |
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English Writing |
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| ENG W233 Intermediate Expository Writing | 3 | |
Core and Concentration (Major) Courses |
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| PHYS 152 | Mechanics | 5 |
| PHYS 251 | Heat, Electricity, and Optics | 5 |
| PHYS 310 | Intermediate Mechanics | 4 |
| PHYS 322 | Optics | 3 |
| PHYS 330 | Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism | 3 |
| PHYS 331 | Electricity and Magnetism II | 3 |
| PHYS 342–343 | Modern Physics and Laboratory | 4 |
| PHYS 345 | Optics Laboratory I | 1 |
| PHYS 346 | Advanced Laboratory I | 1 |
| PHYS 515 | Thermal and Statistical Physics | 3 |
| PHYS 520 | Mathematical Physics | 3 |
| PHYS 550 | Introduction to Quantum Mechanics | 3 |
Supporting Courses |
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| CHM 115–116 | General Chemistry | 8 |
| MA 165–166 | Integrated Geometry and Calculus I–II | 8 |
| MA 261 | Multivariate Calculus | 4 |
| MA 351 | Elementary Linear Algebra | 3 |
| MA 363 | Differential Equations | 3 |
GROUP IPrior to being admitted to the teacher education program, you must complete Group I courses and pass the PPST. |
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| EDUA F300 | Invitation to Teaching | 2 |
| EDUC W200/M101 | Microcomputers for Education: An Introduction and Lab/Field Experience | 1 |
| EDUC K201 | Schools, Society, and Exceptionality | 1 |
| GROUP II | ||
| EDUC K206 | Teaching Methods for Students with Special Needs | 3 |
| EDUC H340 | Education and American Culture | 3 |
| EDUC P250/M201 | General Educational Psychology and Lab/Field Experience | 3 |
| EDUC P253/M301 | Educational Psychology Secondary Teachers and Lab/Field Experience | 3 |
| EDUC Q400 | Man and Environment: Instructional Methods | 3 |
| EDUC X401 | Critical Reading in the Content Area | 3 |
| EDUC M449 | Methods of Teaching Science in the Secondary Schools | 2-3 |
| EDUC M470 | Practicum | 4 |
| EDUC M480 | Student Teaching in the Secondary School | 12 |
Total |
125 |
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