Department of Physics and Astronomy
Plan every term between now and graduation, and watch courses open up as you satisfy their prerequisites.
Picked up the plan you had going on this device. It is saved here automatically, so you can close the page and come back to it. To open it somewhere else, or to send it to an advisor, use Copy as link.
Some courses in that plan are no longer in the catalog and were left out: . Everything else came through.
Your choices build up the course plan at the bottom of the page. Print gives you just that plan and your notes, ready for an advising appointment.
The wizard covers courses for a major or minor in Physics and Astronomy. It does not yet track liberal education requirements, it knows nothing about your second major or minor, and it cannot handle repeatable variable-credit courses such as PHYS 399 or PHYS 495.
This tool is not a substitute for meeting with your advisors. Meet with your academic and faculty advisors each semester to confirm your plan and to talk through research, internships, careers, and graduate study.
A course with a filled header is one you have to take to finish the selected plan. That covers the plan's outright requirements, any option you have not ruled out yet, and anything those courses depend on — which is why the calculus sequence is filled even though it earns no credit toward the major. Applied Physics majors, for instance, must take PHYS 255 and PHYS 356, or either PHYS 365 or PHYS 375 — once any one of those is satisfied, the others go quiet. You have met the major requirements when every filled-header course is completed and you have the credits counted toward the major.
An unavailable course may be waiting on a corequisite, a prerequisite, a more complex set of courses, or the term it is offered in. Open Details on any card to see what it needs. PHYS 486 has a looser requirement than the wizard can model, so it may look available early.