You may take an electronics course in which you will build modern digital and analog circuits. If you plan to become a researcher in physics, you may want to take additional courses in an area of specialization - electronics, nuclear physics, optics or quantum mechanics. Faculty members in the Department of Physics are dedicated teachers and researchers. Another faculty member received a President's Council University Teaching Award. UNT graduates have ranked members of the physics faculty as among the best 20 percent of UNT's instructors.
Many faculty members are well-known across the country as experts in their fields.
Some of their areas of expertise include determining the age of archaeological artifacts, studying electronic properties of artificially structured material and analyzing nuclear reactions. Faculty members have written several books and hundreds of journal articles about physics. UNT's Society of Physics Students is one of the most active student chapters in Texas. The group often goes on field trips and invites guest speakers to meetings. Students in the society sponsor the Physics Olympics each spring for high school students in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.