The Department of Physics Undergraduate Curriculum aims for students to determine their own choice of junior and senior tracks after getting fundamental freshmen and sophomore courses. Selective courses can be chosen either from preparatory courses for physics graduate programs or from other disciplines for interdisciplinary graduate programs.
One of the main purposes of this curriculum is to ready the students for research by project courses; also, through summer internship, students can gain experience at research companies and institutions as well as research groups.
First Year
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |||||
| Code | Title | Credit | Code | Title | Credit | |
| PHYS 101 | General Physics I | 4 | PHYS 102 | General Physics II | 4 | |
| MATH 101 | Calculus I | 4 | MATH 102 | Calculus II | 4 | |
| CHEM 101 | Principles of Chemistry I | 4 | CS 115 | Introduction to Programming in Python | 4 | |
| ENG 101 | English and Composition I | 3 | ENG 102 | English and Composition II | 3 | |
| PHYS 120 | Orientation for Physics Majors I | 1 | PHYS 124 | Freshman Project | 2 | |
| TURK 101 | Turkish I | 2 | TURK 102 | Turkish II | 2 | |
| GE 100 | Orientation | 1 | ||||
Second Year
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |||||
| Code | Title | Credit | Code | Title | Credit | |
| MBG 110 | Introduction to Modern Biology | 3 | PHYS 242 | Advanced Calculus for Applications in Physics | 3 | |
| PHYS 211 | Waves, Optics and Thermodynamics | 4 | PHYS 212 | Modern Physics | 4 | |
| MATH 241 | Engineering Mathematics I | 4 | MATH 242 | Engineering Mathematics II | 4 | |
| CHEM 201 | Materials Science and Technology | 3 | PHYS 218 | Analytical Mechanics | 3 | |
| HIST 200 | History of Turkey | 4 | Elective | 3 | ||
| GE 250 | Collegiate Activities Program I | – | GE 251 | Collegiate Activities Program II | 1 | |
Third Year
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |||||
| Code | Title | Credit | Code | Title | Credit | |
| PHYS 315 | Electromagnetic Theory I | 3 | PHYS 334 | Statistical Physics | 3 | |
| PHYS 325 | Quantum Mechanics I | 3 | PHYS 374 | Experimental Methods of Physics | 4 | |
| PHYS 371 | Numerical Methods in Physics | 3 | Physics Elective | 3 | ||
| COMD 358 | Professional Communication | 3 | Elective | 3 | ||
| HUM 111 | Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas I | 3 | HUM 112 | Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas II | 3 | |
| PHYS 291 | Summer Practice | – | ||||
Fourth Year
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |||||
| Code | Title | Credit | Code | Title | Credit | |
| PHYS 491 | Senior Project I | 4 | PHYS 492 | Senior Project II | 4 | |
| Physics Elective | 3 | Physics Elective | 3 | |||
| Technical Elective | 3 | Technical Elective | 3 | |||
| Social Science Core Elective | 3 | Technical Elective | 3 | |||
| Elective | 3 | Arts Core Elective | 3 | |||
| Elective | 3 | |||||
Total number of Credits: 140
Physics Elective: Any course offered by the Physics department with a 3XX or 4XX code (third year or fourth year course.)