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3.00 Credits
Intensive investigation designed and carried out by the student, culminating in a written thesis and oral defense under the supervision of a thesis adviser. Usually two semesters. Please see departmental website for specific details. Prerequisites Archaeology major and permission of instructor. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Supervised full semester of student teaching in art at the secondary level under the direction of licensed art teachers. On-site observation by college personnel and a weekly seminar are provided for reflective discussion of the role and responsibilities of contemporary art teachers. Classroom experiences and readings focus seminar topics on issues of educational reform, diversity in classrooms, authentic teaching and learning, constructivist and interdisciplinary approaches, lesson planning and presentation, art resources and technologies, and exhibition of student work. Fall and spring. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Art History 127.) Secular cathedrals and their city environments: Paris, Chartres, Reims, Canterbury, Salisbury, Strasbourg, Cologne. Artists, artisans, patrons, and audience in a changing society; the functions of the sculpted portals and the great narrative painting cycles in stained glass, and of shrines and illuminated books. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Arts Humanities This course meets the following culture options: French Culture
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of current ideas about the universe from earliest times to the present, with emphasis on those suggesting a plurality of worlds. Topics will include changing explanations for planetary motions, planetary atmospheres and temperatures, the space-age explorations of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, the possibility of planets around other stars, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Lectures will be supplemented by outside readings, as well as projects and problem sets requiring analytic reasoning. Students will be expected to solve simple quantitative problems. Intended for undergraduates not planning to major in the physical sciences. Prerequisites An understanding of algebra and plane trigonometry. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester First Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Space-age exploration of the planets and their moons; human landings on the moon; robot landings on Venus and Mars; liquid hydrogen and helium rain; planetary rings; asteroids and comets; thermonuclear reactions in the Sun; solar oscillations; the million-degree solar corona; the solar wind; solar effects; the greenhouse effect; ozone depletion and global warming. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Second Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Gravity, light, matter, telescopes, properties and evolution of stars, star-gas-star cycle, normal galaxies, cosmic distance measurements, active galaxies, quasars, supermassive black holes, galaxy groups and clusters, gravitational lensing, X-ray clusters, dark matter, dark energy, galaxy formation and evolution, expansion and fate of the universe. Prerequisites Physics 11 and 12, or Physics 1 and 2, or consent of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Discovering space: cosmic rays, solar flares, solar magnetism, the sun's winds, thermonuclear reactions in the sun's core, coronal mass ejections, star birth, gravitational collapse, main sequence and giant stars, supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, black holes, evidence from stellar motions for dark matter and a massive central black hole in our galaxy, interstellar matter, the discoveries of the expanding universe, radio galaxies, quasars, gamma-ray bursts, and the cosmic microwave background radiation. Prerequisites Physics 11 and 12, or Physics 1 and 2, or consent of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Astronomy and astrophysics of the invisible radio universe. Topics include antenna theory, interferometry, signal reception and processing, thermal and nonthermal radiation processes, cosmic magnetic fields, solar radiophysics, stellar activity, interstellar atoms, ions and molecules, supernovae, pulsars, active galactic nuclei, normal galaxies, radio galaxies, and quasars. Prerequisites Physics 11/12 or permission of instructor. Offered in alternate years. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Course is taught in alternate years
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3.00 Credits
Seminar on selected areas of current research, such as cosmology and studies of active stars, radio studies of interstellar molecules, radio galaxies and quasars, and recent discoveries made with orbiting observatories. Lectures and readings. Prerequisites Physics 11/12 and Astronomy 21/22, or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Course is taught in alternate years
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3.00 Credits
Seminar on selected areas of current research, such as cosmology and studies of active stars, radio studies of interstellar molecules, radio galaxies and quasars, and recent discoveries made with orbiting observatories. Students will be expected to carry out a substantial research project. Prerequisites AST 0111 or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester Course is taught in alternate years
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