1. The AAPT Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force Ernie Behringer AAPT Representative Eastern Michigan University SUPC Next Steps Session: 6:15 PM Saturday, June 7, 2014 Genesis, Work, and Next Steps

2. AAPT UCTF: Genesis Paradigms! (2001) SPIN-UP (2003) Guidelines for Self-Study…UG (2005) Graduate Education Report (2006) But still no UG curriculum recommendations from the community!

3. AAPT UCTF: Genesis 2007: Proposal to AAPT CPUE: No 2007/8: Computation 2009: Vision&Change 2011: CPUE: Yes 2012: Established –18 members –APS & AIP reps –Many Area Committees Don’t touch the third rail!

4. AAPT UCTF: Work 2012/2013 –Identified data essential for reasonably classifying/comparing programs and departments (preliminary, for data pull) –Began looking at cross-cutting areas Lab (AAPT Committee on Laboratories) –UCTF Members Kozminski and Dietz; Zwickl Undergraduate Research –CUR 2013 NRC Report: Adapting to a Changing World

5. AAPT UCTF: Work 2013/2014 –Continued looking at cross-cutting areas Lab (AAPT Committee on Laboratories) Undergraduate Research (APS 2014) Computation –Feedback on preliminary draft recommendations received from PICUP (Caballero et al.) and the UCTF

6. AAPT UCTF: Next Steps Remainder of 2014 –Revise computation recommendations by Summer Meeting –Inform and support the Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP) Co-Chair: Paula Heron

7. AAPT UCTF: Next Steps Remainder of 2014 –Revise computation recommendations by Summer Meeting –Inform and support the Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP) Co-Chair: Paula Heron