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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
(Same as English M179C.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Variable specialized studies course in Asian American literature. Topics include specific genres (autobiography, poetry, or drama); specific nationalities within Asian American community; and themes related to such problems as generational differences, gender politics, or interethnic encounters. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Mathematics 32B, 33A, 33B, Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH). Particle distributions, partition functions, black body radiation, Saha equation, degeneracy. Applications to stellar atmospheres, stellar interiors, and interstellar medium. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 115. Designed for junior/senior Astrophysics and Physics majors. Emission and absorption of radiation by matter, spectroscopy, spectral lines, and radiative transfer. Hydrodynamics and shock waves. Applications to stars, to interstellar and intergalactic media, and to early universe. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Recommended requisites: courses 115, 117. Designed for senior Astrophysics and Physics majors. Physical conditions in stellar interiors. Energy production in stars. Stellar evolution from star formation through normally observed stages to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Novae, supernovae, other variable stars, chromospheres and coronae of sun and stars. Evolution of binary stars. Analysis of stellar atmospheres. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Designed for senior Astrophysics and Physics majors. Properties of star clusters and galaxies, with particular emphasis on Milky Way galaxy. Clusters and superclusters of galaxies. Extragalactic distance scale. Quasars and active galaxies. Topics in cosmology, including expansion of universe, microwave background, galaxy formation from primordial fluctuations, and observational constraints on Big Bang. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours. Designed for juniors/seniors in Astrophysics, Physics, or related field. Lectures cover statistical methods in astrophysics, oneand two-dimensional random processes, and numerical methods. Laboratory experiments involve radio astronomy, interferometry, narrowband solar imaging, and visual photometry. Emphasis on use of computers for automatic collection of data and for processing two-dimensional astronomical images. P/NP or letter grading.
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2.00 Credits
Seminar, two hours. Designed to bring together students undertaking supervised tutorial research in seminar setting with one or more faculty members to discuss their own work or related work in discipline. Led by one supervising faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P/NP grading.
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1.00 Credits
Research group meeting, one hour. Designed for undergraduate students who are part of research group/laboratory. Discussion of research of faculty members or students with regard to understanding methodology in field and/or laboratory equipment. May be repeated for credit. P/NP grading.
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3.00 Credits
Tutorial, three hours per week per unit. Limited to juniors/seniors with overall 3.0 grade-point average. Entry-level research apprenticeship for upper division students under guidance of faculty mentor. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/ NP grading.
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4.00 Credits
Tutorial, four hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.
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