PHYS 3930 - The Teaching of Physics

3 credit hours

Prerequisite: PHYS 2021, PHYS 2121, and MATH 1920 with C or better. Introduces physics teaching pedagogies resulting from physics education research. Methods studied to include inquiry, discovery, and modeling-based approaches. Seminar meeting will be supplemented with extensive experience as a learning assistant in a hands-on cooperative-learning and/or discovery-learning based introductory physics course.

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