Courses
To look up classrooms and times, search the SFSU class schedule.Course offerings (with links to web pages/syllabi)
Courses in bold are offered during the current semester
- A115: Introduction to Astronomy (Digel), (Fielder), (Fries), (Magalhaes), (McCarthy)
- A116: Astronomy Laboratory
- A300: Star, Planets, and the Milky Way (McCarthy)
- A301: Observational Astronomy (Cool)
- A340/P340: The Big Bang
- A400/700: Stellar Astrophysics (Kane)
- A405: Exoplanetary Science (Kane)
- A470: Observational Techniques in Astronomy
- A498: Current Research Literature in Astrophysics
- A685: Projects in the Teaching of Astronomy
- A722: Radiative Processes and Gas Dynamics in Astrophysics
- A742: Galaxies and Cosmology (Marzke)
- A770: Observational Techniques in Astronomy Research
- P101: Conceptual Physics (Fielder)
- P102: Conceptual Physics Laboratory
- P111: General Physics I (Fielder), (Tennant), (lab), (lab), (lab)
- P121: General Physics II (McCarthy), (Caudy)
- P220: General Physics with Calculus I (Caudy)
- P222: General Physics with Calculus I - lab (Caudy)
- P230: General Physics with Calculus II (Caudy), (Man)
- P232: General Physics with Calculus II - lab (Caudy)
- P240: General Physics with Calculus III (Chen)
- P320: Modern Physics I (Neuhauser)
- P325: Modern Physics II
- P330: Analytical Mechanics I (Barranco)
- P360: Electricity and Magnetism I
- P370: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- P385: Introduction to theoretical physics (Xu)
- P430: Quantum Mechanics I (Greensite)
- P431: Quantum Mechanics II
- P440/740: Computational Physics
- P450: Introduction to Solid State Physics (Neuhauser)
- P457: Principles of Electronics
- P460: Electricity and Magnetism II (Newaz)
- P480: Introduction to Optics & Photonics
- P490: Physics Project Laboratory (Newaz)
- P491: Advanced Laboratory
- P695: Culminating Experience in Physics
- P701: Classical Mechanics (Mahdavi)
- P704: Graduate Electricity and Magnetism
- P706: Graduate Quantum Mechanics
- P710: Advanced Laboratory Techniques
- P711: Semiconductor Devices and Technology
- P712: Physics of Plasmas
- P714: Low-Temperature Physics (Neuhauser)
- P715: Lasers and Quantum Optics
- P725: Special and General Relativity (Golterman)
- P726: Quantum Field Theory
- P730: Photonics and Nano Materials
- P775: Graduate Statistical Physics (Jensen)
- P785: Graduate Theoretical Physics (Lea)
- P832: Instructional Methods in Physics
Alternative Course Listings
Briefer descriptions of physics and astronomy courses as they appear in the official university bulletin:
- Physics Course Descriptions in the SFSU Bulletin
- Astronomy Course Descriptions in the SFSU Bulletin
Other Course Sites
- GRE review course.
- College of Extended Learning, which includes Open University registration for courses.
