<p>Whoops, I missed that. I just saw the “individual study for doctoral students” at the bottom and assumed that it was the thesis research “course.” </p>
<p>It looks like 251(Intro to Graduate Research) is a required first semester course, and it’s showing 300 as a required “course” for both first and second semester. I assume that 300/301 will be a requirement every semester during the PhD process though. If nothing else though, there will still be 19 hours of elective credit as part of the degree. That’s about 5 courses, and there would probably be another 5 or so on top of that I’d want to take. I’ve still got plenty of time to get it all figured out. </p>
<p>The UIUC physics PhD program has around 40 hours of required courses, plus another 40 hours of elective credit. That’s an enticing point for UIUC for me. UIUC is where I’ll be finishing my undergrad though, and I don’t know if I’d want to do grad school at the same place or not.</p>