Section 5.3 Next Steps
During the 2016-2017 academic year, all of the paradigms in physics junior year courses would be moving from 3-week to 5-week courses. Faculty teaching these courses also would be making the adjustments to content that had emerged from the card-sorting process. The professor on the Paradigms 2.0 committee was committed to collaboratively planning and enacting the approved math bits in all six of the revised paradigms in physics courses. One of the associate professors on the committee would be aligning the computation courses to the revised junior year courses. The other associate professor and the assistant professor now were committed to developing the two new sophomore courses. Also ahead would be the future decisions that they had not yet completed, including a plan for transitioning to the new schedule, designing specialty courses, possibly designing an advanced laboratory course, re-envisioning the senior-year capstone courses, and modifying or making feasible the thesis requirement for an expanding group of majors.