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Four universities: University of California at Berkeley

MAR 01, 1968
Upper‐division physics courses are currently being reassessed after further experience with the Berkeley Physics Course. A wide variety of alternative elementary courses is offered.
Burton J. Moyer

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS at Berkeley is a member of the College of Letters and Science. As such it shares actively in the efforts of the college to evolve and provide the components of a liberal education. Furthermore such efforts are intended to be consistent with the increasing demand that the physical sciences should make themselves more generally understood in spirit and significance by the nonscientist in the educated populace.

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Volume 21, Number 3

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