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Science Teacher Licensure

Teach Students to Understand the World Around Them

Graduates have careers as:

Prepare to teach K-12 biology courses

Teach a variety of K-12 science-focused courses

Prepare to assist students and teachers in the laboratory

Learn To

Stimulate intellectual curiosity, imagination, rational thinking, and thoughtful expression

Better understand the physical universe

Take part in research opportunities

Earn a teaching licensure

Science Teacher Licensure Program Overview

The World Around You

Physics explores the physical universe to gain a unifying understanding of the world through the interplay of experiment and theory that constitutes the scientific method. Beyond the purely intellectual pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, there is the vast use of discovered laws of nature for the purpose of improving our material well-being. Just look around you.

Earn an Extra Credential

Use your physics background in the classroom by becoming a K-12 science teacher. The program offers you the opportunity to earn a teaching licensure by completing the Teacher Educator Program.

3 Concentrations

Choose to focus on general, environmental or physical physics.

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Sample Courses in Physics

Sample Courses
General Physics
Modern Physics
Physics of Climate Change
Engineering Physics
See The Full Curriculum

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