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PHYS 230 - Undergraduate Research

Credits: 5
Gives students the experience of doing research in a cutting edge field. Students read relevant literature, pose a question, state a hypothesis, plan and perform experiments to test their hypothesis. Students work in teams and present their work to their peers. The culmination of the project would be a written paper modeled after a journal article.

Enrollment Requirement: Eligible for ENGL& 101 ; and a grade of 2.0 or higher in PHYS& 222  and MATH& 152 ; and at least concurrent enrollment in MATH& 153  and PHYS& 223 .

Course Fee: $20.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. Ask a research question, carry out experiments, analyze data, make decisions, formulate solutions, to develop and carry out a comprehensive and independent investigation of an advanced topic in physics.
  2. Give reasons for choice of research question, assumptions, hypotheses, data analysis and conclusions while developing a comprehensive and independent investigation of an advanced topics in physics.

Program Outcomes
  1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulate solutions.
  2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.


College-wide Outcomes
  • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.



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