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    Nov 30, 2024  
American University Catalog 2023-2024 
    
American University Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS-200 Light, Sound, Action (3)


Through an interactive learning environment, students explore and engage in activities related to a range of topics including sound and waves, electricity and magnetism, light, color, and optics. Emphasis is placed on hands-on, inquiry-based, active learning strategies that apply these topics to a variety of conceptual and quantitative real-world problems. Through collaborative activities students engage with concepts that provide insight into the intersection between physics and a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, the visual and performing arts, audio production and technology, business, the social sciences, and communication. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Quantitative Literacy II. Usually Offered: spring. Prerequisite: completion of Quantitative Literacy I  requirement.