100%
Graduates Employed for 14 Straight Years
Physics Education
Bachelor’s
Highlights
Multiple
Certifications and Credentials
Admission
Into the Professional Education Sequence
Teaching the laws that shape the universe
Inspire young scientists through the science of matter, force and energy. The Bachelor of Science in physics education from Trine University prepares you to teach physics in a high school setting. You will expand your physics knowledge and gain professional education experience, ensuring you are a well-equipped to teach high school students.
Why Trine?
The Bachelor of Science in physics education at Trine prioritizes a curriculum that blends science and physics courses with a core professional education component. You will become a passionate, student-centered educator who is able to respond to diverse learner needs. Additionally, you will receive training for multiple certifications and credentials to complement your degree.
As a physics education student at Trine, you will have access to various technology:
- Swivl camera system for recording student teaching, utilized in self and peer reflections
- Glowforge 3D laser printer
- Cricut machines
During your time as a physics education student at Trine, you will experience:
- Opportunities to train and achieve certification in Google Educator Level 1 and Crisis Prevention Intervention (verbal de-escalation)
- Admission into the Professional Education Sequence, upon successful completion of the requirements, which is recognized as the top peers within the Franks School of Education. Members also receive a Franks School of Education name tag to wear in the field.
- The chance to begin field work as early as the first semester.
- Thermal and Statistical Physics: Receive an introduction to thermal and statistical physics. Apply thermodynamic principles to thermodynamic systems to describe and predict their behavior. Explore topics including thermal equilibrium, laws of thermodynamics and selected concepts in statistics (such as fundamental concepts and probability distributions).
- Instructional Design: Study the problems, purposes and responsibilities of teaching, including educational standards, deductive and inductive strategies, assessment, needs of diverse learners, daily and long-range planning, classroom management and parental involvement in the schools.
- Culturally Responsive Teaching: Learn about the programs and practices in schools with multicultural populations and focus on becoming a culturally responsive teacher.
Programs within the Franks School of Education, including physics education, are structured to provide you with a challenging, yet achievable experience. With the help of talented and dedicated faculty, you will grow not just as a teacher, but also as a young adult.
As a physics education student, you will see first-hand how this intentionality has led to over one decade of 100% career placement for licensure graduates in Franks School of Education seeking teaching positions or graduate school.
In the classroom or in STEM-related fields
Teach physics to high school students or science in a middle school environment with a Bachelor of Science in physics education from Trine. The program also prepares you to take learning outside the classroom with career possibilities in other STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. Whether you work in science/planetarium education, focus on science curriculum development or prioritize STEM outreach, the skills you gain from the Franks School of Education will ensure you are a well-rounded educator.
Trine graduates will be prepared for the following career possibilities:
- Corporate training
- Educational sales
- Educational technology
- Engineering-related position
- High school physics teacher
- Laboratory or research-support position
- Middle school science teacher
- Science curriculum development
- Science museum or planetarium education
- STEM education
- STEM outreach
- Technical training
Accreditation
Franks School of Education is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Educator
Preparation (CAEP) and the Indiana Department of Education/Office of Educator Effectiveness
and Licensing (IDOE).
Program Information
Degree
Bachelor of Science in Physics Education
Duration
120 credit hours
Level
Undergraduate
Campus Location
Angola, IN