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Physical Science - B.S.E. Program Requirements PDFDownload to print

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

I. DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II. MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS * (55 credits)  Courses count in major GPA
Type Course Title Credits
KBS BSCI 10120 Biological Foundations 4
KBS CHEM 10060 General Chemistry I 4
KBS   10061 General Chemistry II 4
KBS   10062 General Chemistry I Laboratory
 1
KBS   10063 General Chemistry II Laboratory   
 1
 
20481 Basic Organic Chemistry I 4

  30105 Analytical Chemistry I 3
    30284 Introduction to Biological Chemistry 4
    30301 Inorganic Chemistry I 2
    40567 Basics of Physical Chemistry 4

GEOG 31062 Fundamentals of Meteorology 3
KAD
PHY 23101 General University Physics I 5
KBS   23102 General University Physics II
 5
WIC   30020 Intermediate Physics Laboratory
 2

  36001 Introduction to Modern Physics
 3
KBS   21430
 Frontiers in Astronomy
 3
 
32511

36002
 Electronics (4)
or
Applications of Modern Physics (3)
 3-4
III. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (76 credits)  
Type Course Title Credits
WIC ADED 32142 Principles of Teaching Adolescents* 3
    32277 Teaching Science in Secondary Schools* 3
    42277 Topics in Secondary School Science* 3
ELR   42292 Field Work Practicum* 3
ELR   42357 Secondary Student Teaching*
 9
    49525 Inquiry into the Professional Practice* 3
  CI 47330 Reading and Writing in Adolescent/Adulthood* 3

CULT
 29535 Education in a Democratic Society*
 3

EPSY
 29525 Educational Psychology* 3
  ITEC 19525 Educational Technology* 3
KMC
 MATH
 11010 Algebra for Calculus 3
KMC

11022 Trigonometry 3
KAD
12002 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 5
 
12003 Analytic Geometry and Calculus II* 5
KHU
DG
 PHIL
 11001 Introduction to Philosophy 3
KSS
DD
 PSYC
 11762 General Psychology 3
KSS
DD		 SOC 12050 Introduction to Sociology 3
DD SPED 23000 Introduction to Exceptionalities* 3
  Kent Core Composition 6-8
  Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one from each) 6
MINIMUM TOTAL 
132

*A minimum C (2.000) grade must be earned. A minimum C (2.000) grade must be earned in ADED 32142 to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.