I am looking to to take a course that was cancelled at my school (and will not be offered again until after I graduate) due to COVID-19 at a nearby school. This course is necessary for me complete my concentration in Applied Physics (hopefully so I can apply it to engineering). It is also a very important course to engineering in general, the course is Statics & Dynamics. I am trying to find something near my school Bridgewater State University, or along the South Shore, or near Boston/Cambridge etc. Preferably I would like to do an in person course at one of my reach (or rather unlikely 1 in a million shot) schools if I ever attend grad school, and I would also love to get too know some neat people outside my school.
Is there anywhere good to search this sort of information?
This is one of those things online search probably wouldn’t help. Check with your local community colleges and/or public universities to see if you can take their courses. You can also take such a course but you indicated your preference is an in-person class.
If the course you are looking for is PHYS 490, then it may be hard to find an exact equivalent at another school. Those with actual engineering programs tend to have engineering statics and dynamics as a two course sequence. For example, University of Massachusetts Lowell has these two courses ENGN 2050 and 2070:
Yikes! Thanks for the info! Good for me too know. If I study abroad next semester, thing it may be possible to take one now at a school in the US and one later?
You need to check with your major department to see what courses from other colleges could fulfill your major requirements, or if there is an alternate means of fulfilling your major requirements without the course that will not be offered.
It does look like the applied physics concentration at Bridgewater State University lists PHYS 490 as one choice of in-major elective options, so it is not strictly required. However, many of the other options are also offered only in alternate years, so the same problem could affect the other options.