Physics Minor

Minor Program Requirements:

*PHYS-206 may be substituted by PHYS-201 and PHYS-207 may be substituted by PHYS-202

All 300-level courses in Physics are offered in the evening

Students are strongly encouraged to take the required 200-level physics courses, as well as MATH 107 (Calculus I) and MATH 202 (Calculus II) as early as possible, since these are prerequisites for almost all of the 300-level physics courses.

The Physics Minor for NEIU STEM Majors

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University Requirements

Our minor program is constructed to help you satisfy university requirements for graduation.

• Together, PHYS-206L: University Physics I and PHYS-207L: University Physics II satisfy two of the requirements for General Education distributive learning (NSL)
• The required courses PHYS-305: Modern Physics I and PHYS-306: Modern Physics II are both ELE-DS courses.
• Two of our elective courses and PHYS-307 Modern Physics Lab and PHY-330: experimental methods are WIP courses
• Two of our elective courses and PHYS-309 Computing for Scientists and PHY-340: Sustainable Energy are ELE-DS courses

Transfer credit information

Physics courses taken from other institutions inside the U.S. usually transfer with no problem. We will need to see a catalog description of any statistics course taken at another institution and any Physics courses taken at institutions outside the U.S.

The College of Arts and Sciences has a rule that states only 9 hours of Physics transfer credits can be applied towards an Physics minor. Remember that the University requires a grade of C or better in any course applied toward the major or minor.