Community college physics courses tend to be from among the following:
- “Physics for poets” – i.e. physics for general education for humanities and social studies majors
- Preparatory physics – like high school physics, prerequisite to college general physics for those without high school physics
- College general physics for biology majors and pre-meds – may require single variable calculus or no calculus
- College general physics for physics and engineering majors – requires progression through single variable and multivariable calculus