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Weber State’s physical science composite teaching major allows you to explore a variety of physical science disciplines while you prepare for your career in education.
Physical Science Composite Teaching Highlights

This degree’s multidisciplinary approach allows you to graduate with more career opportunities in secondary education than others in your field.

As a student of various physical science disciplines, you’ll have access a wide variety of departmental events and networking opportunities.

What You’ll LEARN at Weber

You’ll learn how to effectively present a range of physical science subjects to students using state-of-the-art teaching methods while completing courses in areas such as physics, geology, chemistry, and mathematics.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Presentation skills. Physics majors should be able to express (orally and in writing) their understanding of core physical principles, the results of experiments, and their analysis of physical problems.
• Laboratory skills. Physics majors should be competent experimentalists. They should be able to design and set up an experiment, collect and analyze data, identify sources of error, and interpret their result and connect it to related areas of physics.
• Computer skills. Physics majors should be competent users of basic software, such as word processing, spreadsheet, and graphing programs. They should also have an understanding of the fundamental aspects of a programming and/or computer algebra language (Fortran, C++, Mathematica, etc.).
• Problem-solving skills. Physics majors should be competent problem-solvers. They should be able to identify the essential aspects of a problem and formulate a strategy for solving the problem. They should be able to estimate the solution to a problem, apply appropriate techniques to arrive at a solution, test the correctness of their solution, interpret their result and connect it to related areas of physics.
• Physics majors should be adequately trained to apply their physics experience and knowledge to analyze new situations.
• All physics students (majors, minors, support, and Gen Ed students) should understand the nature of science, as assessed by questionnaires, interviews, and student focus groups.
• General Education students should understand several core concepts of physics.
• Physics Teaching majors and Elementary Teaching majors should have an appropriate knowledge of physics and a variety of teaching strategies to accommodate the multiple learning styles of their students.