Secondary School
Programme Contents
Good teachers in the natural sciences and especially in physics are of central importance for awakening pupils' interest in technical and scientific careers.
In addition to specialised knowledge, the job description of a physics teacher also includes pedagogical and didactic skills. Specialist training is provided by experts at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in the form of lectures, practical courses and seminars.
Our university has traditionally emphasised practical relevance and subject didactics above and beyond what is required by the teacher training examination regulations.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the programme is to provide students with knowledge of the most important concepts and relationships in mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and optics as well as the special theory of relativity, knowledge of the concepts of the structure of matter, an insight into the history of physics with special consideration of the interrelationships between physics and other sciences, technology, society and the environment, didactic knowledge, in particular the ability to elementarise physical facts, taking into account the age-related ability to abstract, knowledge of physical teaching and working materials and the ability to use them according to didactic aspects, the ability to present scientific ways of thinking and working in an exemplary manner using suitable content.
- Description of natural processes under precisely defined, reproducible conditions (experimental observation)
- Gaining knowledge by creating theoretical models for the quantitative description of observation using the language of mathematics
- Nature as a whole, from the description of the universe as a whole to the elementary building blocks from which all known matter is constructed
- from basic research to applied research on specific problems, which very often also originate from non-technical areas
- Industrial research and development centres
- Teaching at schools, colleges and universities
- both in companies and as a self-employed IT expert
- Patents (law firms and patent offices)
- Management consultancies, financial service providers, insurance companies and banks
- Public service
Structure:
1. Study of two specialised subjects (72 ECTS points each)
- Specialised scientific studies (60 ECTS-Punkte)
- Specialised didactic studies (12 ECTS-Punkte)
2. Educational science programme (35 ECTS points)
- Pedagogical-didactic school internship (6 ECTS-Punkte)
- didactic internship (4 ECTS-Punkte)
3. Free area (15 ECTS points
4. Written term paper (10 ECTS points)
| Module | Abbreviation | ECTS-Points |
| Classical Physics | ||
| Classical Physics 1 (Mechanics) | 11-E-M | 8 |
| Classical Physics 2 (Heat and Electromagnetism) | 11-E-E | 8 |
Optics and Waves | 11-L-OW | 7 |
| Structure of material | ||
Modern Physics 1 | 11-L-M1-NV | 6 |
Modern Physics 2 | 11-L-M2-NV | 5 |
| Moderne Physik in Natur und Technik | 11-L-MPNT | 6 |
Mathematical Methods | ||
Mathematical Methods of Physics | 11-M-MR | 6 |
| Laboratory Course I | ||
| Laboratory Course Physics A (Mechanics, Heat, Electromagnetism) | 11-P-LA | 2 |
Data and Error Analysis | 11-P-FR1 | 2 |
| Laboratory Course Physics B (Electricity, Circuits, Atomic and Nuclear Physics) | 11-P-LB | 5 |
| Laboratory Course II | ||
| Demonstrationspraktikum 1 | 11-P-DP1 | 5 |
The course of study shown (Download als pdf) is a recommendation resulting from the logical sequence of module topics.
You are free to organise your studies according to your own wishes, bring certain modules forward or take them later, e.g. after a semester abroad.
