I need a curriculum of physics majors

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The discussion revolves around the request for a comprehensive curriculum schedule for physics majors at universities in the United States, with the intention of comparing physics education between China and the U.S. The scope includes curriculum structure, course requirements, and potential differences in educational approaches.

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  • One participant requests a detailed curriculum schedule for physics majors in U.S. universities for a comparative project.
  • Another participant suggests that most universities should have their curricula available online and encourages searching specific schools' physics departments for this information.
  • A participant mentions that some schools offer multiple options for physics majors and notes the potential challenge of course listings being presented only by course numbers.
  • There is a discussion about differences in curriculum requirements, with one participant pointing out that U.S. students typically need to complete humanities courses, while questioning if Canadian students have similar requirements.
  • Another participant confirms that at Carleton University, science students are required to take a limited number of humanities or social science electives.

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Participants generally agree that curriculum information should be accessible online, but there is a lack of consensus on the specific requirements for humanities courses in different educational systems.

Contextual Notes

Participants express uncertainty about the exact curriculum structures and requirements across different universities, highlighting potential variations in course offerings and credit requirements.

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Students, educators, and researchers interested in comparative education studies, particularly in physics curricula across different countries.

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I need a curriculum schedule of physics majors in any universities of America---whole 4 years , cause it is very very important for my project .I should make a comparision between physics teaching between China and America...

so many thanks!
 
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Well, here's Waterloo: http://www.ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/SCI/physics.html

Should be pretty close to any US school...
 
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physshi said:
I need a curriculum schedule of physics majors in any universities of America

Surely every college and university in America must have their curricula on their Web sites by now!
 
yeah, just search for a few schools of interest, peruse the physics departments, click on "undergraduate," and there'll surely be a list of all the classes needed for graduation and perhaps even a suggested schedule.

some schools even offer multiple options for physics majors, too.

really, the only bit of work that you need to do is that often courses are only listed by their course number and not title in these sorts of schedules, so you'd have to look up, exactly, what the title of "PHY4222" is called, etc.
 
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Well, here's Waterloo: http://www.ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/SCI/physics.html

Should be pretty close to any US school...

Canadian students aren't required to take any humanities classes? In the US, students are usually required to take at least a couple non physics/math/technical courses, such as writing courses and history/literature courses and it seems like it is rather important to have such courses. At my university, I need to take about 16 credits of humanities/writing classes.
 
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That is a little bit odd. At Carleton (also in Ontario) science students are required to take something like two credits of social science/humanities electives (a typical honours degree is 20 credits, a one term course is .5 credits).
 

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