PHY at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PHY work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on PHY, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PHY. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at PHY 1105

  1. PHY 1105LGeneral Physics II Laboratory
  2. PHY 1105General Physics II

• 5 courses deep, ending at PHY 2205

  1. PHY 2200LEngineering Physics I Laboratory
  2. PHY 2200Engineering Physics I
  3. PHY 2205Engineering Physics II

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHY 1100

  1. PHY 1100LGeneral Physics I Laboratory
  2. PHY 1100General Physics I

• 2 courses deep, ending at PHY 1120L

  1. PHY 1120Physics for Future Leaders
  2. PHY 1120LPhysics for Future Leaders Laboratory

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHY yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHY yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

PHY does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cal Poly SLO campus feed.