Motion Passed by Curriculum Committee : The Place of Physics 1

The committee passed the following motion, which is now open to your comment and review:

Require Phys 1403 (Physics 1) in the first year of the program prior to the Comprehensive Review.

Justification for this is three-fold:
a) The "Gate" into second year currently has no science or math component in its metier.
b) This will send a signal that this aspect of our student's education is as important as design, writing, and graphic representation.
c) This will create a de facto necessity that Physics 1 will be a prerequisite to starting the building technology sequence.

Your questions, concerns, and affirmations are welcome as comments to this post or you can talk to any one of the curriculum committee members present for this motion: Kuhn Park, Kentaro Tsubaki, Patricia Perkins, Michael Peters, Saif Haq, or myself.

This motion will be considered for implementation by the Dean's Council on Tuesday, February 16th. I will take any comments and questions raised by you to the Dean's Council and will present them with the motion for deliberation.