THE
FACULTY
SENATE
Senate
Document Number 1107S
Date
of Senate Approval 01/18/07
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
APC Document 8: Changing
Requirements for Physics with Teacher Licensure
Effective Date: Fall 2007
1. Delete: On pg 211 and 212, under
Physics with Teacher Licensure, items I and II:
Add: On pg 211, in place of deleted entry:
I. Required courses in the major – 29 hours: PHYS 221, 222, 323, 325,
326, 331, 332, 401, 402, 414.
II. Required courses outside the major – 16-19 hours, including ENVR
130; CHEM 111, 132 (or a satisfactory score on the Chemistry Placement
Examination); MATH 191, 192, 291; and those requirements indicated under the
Education section of the Catalog.
2. Delete: On pg 212, paragraph
under listing of required courses:
Students who wish to receive teacher licensure...for
additional information.
Add: On pg 212, in place of deleted entry:
Students who wish to receive teacher licensure should
review requirements found in the Education section of the catalog and see the
appropriate licensure advisor for additional information. Students seeking
licensure in 9-12 Comprehensive Science (as distinct from Physics) must
complete the requirements listed above as well as BIOL 123 and 124, CHEM 145
and 236, and ENVR 105.
Impact:
No
impact on the staffing or the resources of the Physics Department.
Rationale:
We
hope that reducing the number of cognate hours required for a Teacher Licensure
concentration in Physics will result in more students pursuing this major.
President Bowles is encouraging natural science departments to increase the
number of students pursuing teacher licensure. One hindrance in the past was
the number of hours required to complete such a major. We currently have two
Physics students pursuing teacher licensure, but would like to see more in the
future.
The
Chemistry department will no longer be offering CHEM 144 so it needs to be
removed from our list of required courses for licensure in Physics. CHEM 145 is
a lab that students took with CHEM 144, so it needs to be dropped as well.
However, students wanting to complete licensure in 9-12 Comprehensive Science
will still take CHEM 236 (an “equivalent” course for CHEM 144 under the newly
redesigned Chemistry curriculum) and CHEM 145.
The
Physics Department is redesigning its curriculum to combine Modern Physics I
and Modern Physics II into a single course, PHYS 326,
Modern Physics. We also want to expand our offering of Quantum Mechanics
from just one course to a two-course sequence in Quantum Mechanics, I and
II. Students preparing to be teachers
need an exposure to Modern Physics and Quantum Mechanics I. However, students
in this concentration do not need to have the more advanced exposure of Quantum
Mechanics II in order to effectively teach middle school or high school.
We
are also dropping PHYS 499 from the Teacher Licensure concentration. None of
the other concentrations in Physics requires PHYS 499, and it seems out of
place to require students going into teaching to take it when it is only
recommended for those students planning on study in graduate school.