Per WGU's published description, MAT Secondary Physics Curriculum offers a comprehensive review for high school physics teachers preparing for the Praxis exam. The sweep is wider than a problem-set course: major scientific discoveries, key engineering innovations, and their societal impacts, ethical issues in scientific research, and the principles of effective science communication sit beside the physics core, the different forms of energy, the laws of thermodynamics, and the role of energy and matter in the universe, then Coulomb's Law, electric circuits, and electromagnetism, and finally the integration of wave properties, sound waves, and the electromagnetic spectrum into teaching practice. The description closes with the framing that decides how to prepare: as this course is focused on Praxis prep, content is conceptual and algebra-based.
It lives on a single graduate table. The M.A. Teaching, Science Education (Secondary Physics) initial-licensure program, 42 CUs across six terms, schedules it in term 3 beside D808 General Secondary Methods, D885 Three Dimensional Science and Engineering, and the D726 early clinical, the supervised hours that always stay with the student. It is the graduate twin of D864 Secondary Physics Curriculum (EDUC 3225, 3 CUs), the closer of both bachelor's physics tables and the 23-CU Physics endorsement for licensed teachers, and the two descriptions match, the same conceptual, algebra-based Praxis review at one fewer CU. The licensed-teacher M.A. Science Education (Secondary Physics) table carries neither code; its physics content runs on its own legacy codes (C659, BYT2, BZT2, DPT2, C739) with the methods work at C979 Science Methods - Secondary Physics. Quote by the code on your degree audit, and we price that course.