... News . ... Second-year students classes . ... Since 1993 lecturers of the MSU Faculty of Physics have been reading a course on ?Programming and Information Technology?. ... In 2008 the Dean of the Faculty of Physics approved a new curriculum, which allowed advanced second-year students to take a course in one of the following disciplines instead of the basic programming course: Microcontroller Programming , FPGA Design , Parallel Programming , and Computer-Aided Science Engineering (CASE) . ...