Students not specializing in physics will find a variety of courses that illuminate the relationships between physics and other fields. The physics curriculum emphasizes fundamental concepts, problem analysis and solving skills as well as laboratory techniques and evaluation. Physics majors possess a wide variety of interests and goals. To ensure that students are adequately prepared for a variety of directions, the course offerings reflect a core set of courses destined to give the student a basic understanding of modern experimental and theoretical physics concepts. Advanced courses explore these concepts further with a tighter focus on the problems and solutions particular to the area.
Courses are sequential in nature and many possess prerequisites.
This requirement should be completed in the student's first or second year. In all cases, an individual program should be worked out in detail with a member of the physics faculty. The Minnesota Board of Teaching and the Minnesota Department of Families, Children and Learning are in the process of revising licensure requirements. Engineering Engineering students interested in engineering physics or working in industrial laboratories have several options. Students enrolled in these programs must still complete the basic Hamline Plan requirements.