American University of Beirut

Student Guidelines

​​​​Physics students can choose their free electives in such a way as to obtain a minor or a double major.
It is most common for students to minor or double majors in Math, Computer Science, Computational Sciences, or even follow a Physics Premedical Track. Below we present one possible plan for each of the above-mentioned tracks. Note that these are only exemplary schedules and there exist other options for course distributions:

Double Major in Math:

​1st year (Sophomore year)​Fall: MATH 201
​Spring: MATH 202; MATH 218 or MATH 219
​2nd year (Junior year)​Fall​: 
​Spring: MATH 210
​3rd year (Senior year)
​Fall: 
​Spring: 

Minor in Math​​:

​1st year (Sophomore year)​Fall: MATH 201
​Spring: MATH 202; MATH 218 or MATH 219
​2nd year (Junior year)​Fall: Elective (STAT 230)
​Spring: MATH 210
​3rd year (Senior year)
​Fall: MATH 211
​Spring

Minor in Computer Science​:

​1st year (Sophomore year)​Fall: CMPS 200
​Spring: CMPS 211
​2nd year (Junior year)​Fall: CMPS 212
​Spring: Elective (CMPS 251, CMPS 258)
​3rd year (Senior year)
​Fall: Elective (CMPS 257)
​Spring: CMPS 256

Minor in Computational Science:

​1st year (Sophomore year)
​Fall: CMPS 200;  
​Spring: CMPS 211
​2nd year (Junior year)​Fall: CMPS 212
​Spring: STAT 230 or STAT 233
​3rd year (Senior year)
​Fall: MATH/CMPS 251
​Spring

Physics Premedical Track:

​1st year (Sophomore year)​Fall: BIO 201 + L
​Spring: BIO 202 + L; CHEM 211
​2nd year (Junior year)​Fall: BIO 223 + L; CHEM 212; 
​Spring: BIO 220; CHEM 210
​3rd year (Senior year)
​Fall
​Spring

Other possible tracks include minors in:

Minor in Physics

Non-physics students wishing to complete a minor in Physics are required to take the course listed in the below link:

Minor in Physics ​

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