Courses

Courses in blue require minimal prerequisites and are primarily intended for non-science majors. For course descriptions, see the bulletins for physics and for astronomy.

Physics

	Fall 2025	Spring 2025	Fall 2024	Spring 2024	Fall 2023	Spring 2023	Fall 2022	Spring 2022	Fall 2021	Spring 2021	Fall 2020	Spring 2020	Fall 2019	Spring 2019	Fall 2018	Spring 2018
PHY 112 Light, Color, Vision		Weinacht		Graf		Graf		Weinacht		Weinacht		Weinacht		Weinacht		Graf
PHY 113 Physics of Sports PHY 115 Lab											Jung Jung		Jung Jung		Jung Jung
PHY 119 Physics for Environmental Studies		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf
PHY 121 Physics for Life Sciences I PHY 121 Lab	Riccio, Piacquadio (01,69) Winters (90) Lefferts (1x, 69) Winters (90)		Tsybychev (01,69) Piacquadio (90) Lefferts (1x, 69) Piacquadio (90)		Tsybychev (01,69) McGrew (90) Lefferts Ionas (69) McGrew (90)		Piacquadio & McGrew (01,69) Rijssenbeek (90) Lefferts Hemmick (69) Rijssenbeek (90)		Tsybychev Wilking Pascuzzi Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi		Stephens Wilking Lefferts Hemmick		Stephens Wilking Lefferts Wilking		Hobbs,Wilking Rijssenbeek Lefferts Rijssenbeek	Pascuzzi Lefferts
PHY 122 Physics for Life Sci. II PHY 122 Lab		Dao, Riccio (01;69); Piacquadio (90) Dao, Riccio (01, 69), Piacquadio (90)		McGrew, Dao (01;69); Metcalf, Lefferts (90) McGrew,Dao (01,69), Metcalf (90)		Piacquadio, McGrew (01; 69) Kelly (90) Lefferts (01), Hemmick/Ionas (69), Kelly (90)		Tsybychev & Ionas (01; online) Pascuzzi (studio) Lefferts Ionas, Tsybychev, Pascuzzi		Stephens Lefferts Hemmick		Stephens Kelly Lefferts Kelly		Gurvitch Kelly Lefferts Kelly		Hobbs,Wilking Rijssenbeek Lefferts Rijssenbeek
PHY 125 Classical Physics A	Graf	Graf	Graf	Ionas	Mendez	Ionas	Mendez	Rijssenbeek, Gurvich	Mendez	Pascuzzi	Mendez	Gurvitch	Gurvitch	Koch	Gurvitch	Vafei-Najafabadi
PHY 126 Classical Physics B	Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Graf		Koch		Graf
PHY 127 Classical Physics C		Ionas		Mendez		Mendez		Mendez		Mendez		Du		Graf		Lee
PHY 131 Classical Physics I	Ionas (01) Hemmick, Corliss (69) McGrew (90)	Zahed	Ionas (01) Hemmick (69) McGrew (90)	Hobbs	Ionas (01) Hemmick (69) Pascuzzi (90)	Tsybychev	Ionas (01) Hemmick (69) Pascuzzi (90)	Kelly	Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi	Tsybychev	Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi	Tsybychev	Graf Hemmick Pascuzzi	Pascuzzi	Hemmick	Koch
PHY 133 Classical Physics Lab 1	Lefferts (1x,69) McGrew (90)	Lefferts	Lefferts (1x, 69) McGrew (90)	Lefferts; Hemmick, Ionas (69)	Lefferts Ionas (69) Pascuzzi (90)	Lefferts tbd	Lefferts Hemmick (69) Pascuzzi (90)	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts	Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi	Lefferts	Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi	Lefferts
PHY 132 Classical Physics II	Hobbs	Ionas (01), Hemmick (69), McGrew (90)	Dao	Ionas (01), Hemmick (69), Pascuzzi/Ionas (90)	Hobbs (01)	Ionas (01), Hemmick (69), Pascuzzi (90, addl. info)	Hobbs	Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi	Rijssenbeek McCarthy	Ionas Hemmick	Hobbs	Ionas Hemmick Pascuzzi	Hobbs	Hemmick,Hobbs Mihaly	Koch	McGrew Hemmick Mihaly
PHY 134 Classical Physics Lab II	Lefferts (1x,69)	Lefferts (1x, 69); McGrew (90)	Lefferts (1x, 69)	Lefferts; Hemmick,Ionas (69); Pascuzzi/Ionas (90)	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Pascuzzi	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick	Lefferts Hemmick Pascuzzi	Lefferts	Lefferts Hemmick,Hobbs Mihaly	Lefferts	Lefferts Hemmick Mihaly
PHY 141 Classical Physics I Honors	Mendez		Mendez		Fernandez-Serra		Fernandez-Serra		Fernandez-Serra		Rijssenbeek		Rijssenbeek		Kumar
PHY 142 Classical Physics II Honors		Mendez		Fernandez-Serra		Fernandez-Serra		Liu		Rijssenbeek		Rijssenbeek		Rijssenbeek		Kumar
PHY 153 Data Analysis for Phys. & Astr. with Python		Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk		Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk	Kiryluk		Kiryluk
PHY 191 Transitional Study	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy
PHY 231 Physics for Future Presidents	Naim		Naim		Deshpande		Deshpande		Deshpande		Deshpande		Deshpande		Deshpande
PHY 237/ATM 237 World Climate and Atmosphere		Hameed		Hameed		Hameed		Hameed		Hameed		Black		Black		Black
PHY 251 Modern Physics PHY 252 Lab	Averin Lefferts	Averin Lefferts	Averin Lefferts	Mihaly Nielsen, Mahtani	Mihaly Nielsen	Mihaly . . Mihaly	Mihaly Mihaly	Mihaly Mihaly	Mihaly Mihaly	Mihaly Mihaly	Mihaly Mihaly	Mihaly Mihaly	Mihaly TBA	Wei Dawber	Piacquadio Dawber	Wei Dawber
PHY 277 Computation for Physics and Astronomy	Swesty	Dreyer	Swesty	Calder	Swesty	Swesty	Swesty	Swesty	Swesty	Dreyer	Swesty	Dreyer	Swesty	Dreyer	Swesty	Swesty
PHY 287 Introduction to Research by arrangement	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy
PHY 291 Transitional Study	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	Schneble	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy
PHY 300 Waves and Optics	Mihaly	Mihaly	Mihaly	Weinacht	Weinacht	Weinacht	Weinacht	Metcalf	Allison	Metcalf	Allison	Schneble	Allison	Schneble	Weinacht	Weinacht
PHY 301 Electromagnetic Theory I	Vafaei-Najafabadi	Goldman	Zahed	Goldman	Vafaei-Najafabadi		Vafaei-Najafabadi		Navid VafeiNajafabadi		Dedushenko Omori		Vafei-Najafabadi		Vafei-Najafabadi
PHY 302 Electromagnetic Theory II		Syritsin		Syritsin		Syritsin		Goldman		Goldman		Loverde		Goldman		Goldman
PHY 303 Mechanics	Ionas	Cano	Ionas	Zahed	Ionas		Ionas		Ionas		Ionas		Rocek		Rocek
PHY 306 Thermal Physics	Ringer	Ringer	Teaney	Teaney	Teaney	Teaney		Teaney		Shuryak		Shuryak		Shuryak		Fernandez-Serra
PHY 307 Phys. and Math. Found. of Quantum Mech.
PHY 308 Quantum Physics	Perez Rios	Perez Rios	Perez Rios	Perez Rios	Perez Rios	Perez Rios		Zahed		Zahed		Goldman		Allison		Allison
PHY 311 Connections in Science									Piacquadio				Mendez		Misewich/Mendez
PHY 313 Mystery of Matter										Jung		Jung		Tsybychev
PHY 335 Electronics and Instrumentation Lab	Bernauer	Corliss	Corliss	Bernauer	Corliss	Bernauer (L01), Gurvitch (L02)	Gurvitch	Bernauer	Gurvitch	Gurvitch	Gurvitch	Bernauer	Du	Bernauer	Du	Du
PHY 382 The Quantum Moment
PHY 390 Special Topics in Physics	Barish		Barish									VafeiNajafabadi
PHY 405 Advanced Quantum Physics	Goldman		Goldman		Goldman		Goldman		Zahed		Goldman		Goldman		Goldman
PHY 408 Relativity	Verbaarschot	Verbaarschot	Verbaarschot	Verbaarschot	Swesty	Verbaarschot	Syritsin	Shuryak	Goldman	Swesty		Swesty		Swesty		Shuryak
PHY 420 Accelerators											VafeiNajafabadi
PHY 431 Nuclear and Particle Physics		Shuryak		Shuryak		Shuryak		GonzalezGarcia		GonzalezGarcia		GonzalezGarcia		Gonzalez-Garcia		Gonzalez-Garcia
PHY 445/ 515 Senior Laboratory	Arnold, Liu, Kumar, Corliss, Drees	Arnold Corliss, Kumar, Bernauer, Du	Arnold, Bernauer, Figueroa, Du	Du, Liu, Wijsekara, Arnold	McGrew Liu, Du, Figueroa	Drees, Liu, Metcalf, Du	Drees Liu Du FigueroaBarragan	Du McGrew FigueroaBarragan Gurvich	Du FigueroaBarragan McGrew Li	Du Liu McGrew Schneble	Liu Du Weinacht McGrew	McGrew Liu Jones	FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu McGrew	FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu McGrew	FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu McGrew	FigueroaBarragan Koch Liu Tsybychev
PHY 447 Tutorial in Adv. Topics by arrangement		PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy
PHY 451 Quantum Electronics / AMO physics							PerezRios							(see PHY556)		(See PHY566)
PHY 452 Atomic Physics and Lasers	Weinacht		Metcalf		Metcalf		Metcalf		Metcalf		Metcalf		Metcalf		Metcalf
PHY459 Write effectively by arrangement (or with PHY445)	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY haculty Schneble	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY faculty Schneble	PHY faculty McCarthy	PHY faculty McCarthy	PHY faculty McCarthy	PHY faculty McCarthy	PHY faculty McCarthy	PHY faculty McCarthy	PHY faculty McCarthy
PHY 472 Solid State Physics	Cano		Cano		Cano		Cano		Mihaly				TBA
PHY 475 Teaching practicum by arrangement	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts Schneble	Lefferts McCarthy	Lefferts McCarthy	Lefferts McCarthy	Lefferts McCarthy	Lefferts McCarthy	Lefferts McCarthy	Lefferts McCarthy
PHY 487 Research by arrangement	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	PHY faculty	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy	McCarthy

Astronomy

Astronomy (AST) course	Fall 2025	Spring 2025	Fall 2024	Spring 2024	Fall 2023	Spring 2023	Fall 2022	Spring 2022	Fall 2021	Spring 2021	Fall 2020	Spring 2020	Fall 2019	Spring 2019	Fall 2018	Spring 2018
AST 100 Astronomy Today	Farr	Lattimer	Zingale	Lattimer	Koda (01) Lanzetta (02)	Lattimer	Zingale (01) Sehgal (02)		Sehgal Walter	Lattimer	Sehgal Zingale	Lattimer	Farr von der Linden		Koda Lanzetta
AST 101 Introduction to Astronomy		Koda		Koda		Sehgal		Koda		Sehgal		Koda		Koda
AST 105 Introduction to the Solar System	Lanzetta		Perna		Lanzetta		Calder		Lanzetta		Perna		Perna		Walter	Lanzetta
AST 112 Astronomy Lab		Koda		Koda		Sehgal		Koda		Sehgal		Koda		Koda
AST 200 Intro to Astronomy Research		Armitage		Armitage		Armitage		Armitage		Armitage		Armitage		Lattimer		Koda
AST 203 Astronomy	Koda	Farr	Calder	Lanzetta	Farr	Calder	Farr	Koda	Lanzetta	Lanzetta	Farr	Lanzetta	Koda	Zingale	Calder	von der Linden
AST 205 Introduction to Planetary Sciences	Calder		Perna		Calder		Perna		Perna		Perna		Lanzetta		Lanzetta
AST 248 Search for Life in the Universe	Walter	Lattimer	Walter		Koda	Lattimer	Walter	Lattimer	Walter	Koda	Calder	Lattimer	Walter	Walter	Lattimer	Koda
AST 287 Introductory Research in Astronomy by arrangement	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy
AST 301 Collisions in the Solar System		Walter				Walter				Walter				Lattimer
AST 341 Stars and Radiation			Zingale				Zingale				Zingale				Zingale
AST 346 Galaxies		Koda				Lanzetta				Koda				Lanzetta
AST 347 Cosmology	Farr				Miranda				Sehgal				Sehgal
AST 389 Science Fiction				Walter				Walter				Walter				Walter
AST 390 Special Topics in Astrophysics		Zingale		Lattimer		Zingale		Armitage		Lattimer		Armitage				Lattimer (as PHY390)
AST 443 Observational Techniques	von der Linden	von der Linden	Birrer	Birrer	Birrer		von der Linden [wiki]	von der Linden	von der Linden	von der Linden	Walter		von der Linden		von der Linden
AST 447 Senior Tutorial by arrangement	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy
AST 459 Write effectively	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer	AST faculty Lattimer
AST 475 Teaching practicum by arrangement	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale Schneble	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy
AST 487 Senior Research by arrangement	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	AST faculty	Zingale McCarthy	Zingale McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy	Lattimer McCarthy

Undergraduate