Students preparing for either graduate study or a professional career in physics should pursue the bachelor of science degree (Professional Track described below). For students who have special interests, the Department offers additional tracks in optics and lasers, materials physics, and computational physics.
Majors in Physics will be able to:

• Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the fundamental principles of physics.

• Properly invoke these principles in the explanation of physical phenomena.

• Apply these principles in the solution of problems.

• Content, stipulated in individual course syllabi, will include, though not be limited to: the principles of force and motion and the relationships between them, the conservation, transfer, and transformations of energy, the fundamental electric and magnetic properties of matter, the fundamental properties of mechanical and electromagnetic waves, the laws of thermodynamics, and the basic application and extension of all these principles to nuclear and atomic physics.