Courses of Study 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ASRC 4606 - [The Family and Society in Africa and the African Diaspora] (crosslisted) SOC 4780
(GB) (SBA-AS)
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 6066 .
N. Assié-Lumumba.
“The family, as a social institution, is structured according to historical, socio-economic, political, and cultural factors. Course topics include the concepts of the nuclear and extended family, the roles, rights and obligations of different age groups and generations; and marriage and its related issues, including parenthood, childrearing, and gender roles. Other issues examined are reproductive health, family planning, sexuality and fertility (particularly during adolescence), family codes, and legal implications. The course deals also with structural change and continuity, the impact of westernization, urbanization, formal education, and the contemporary economy on the structure and challenges of the family in Africa. Finally, the legacy of African family values and traditions in the African Diaspora, with a focus on the African-American experience, is discussed.”
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ASRC 4650 - Contesting Identities in Modern Egypt (crosslisted) HIST 4091 , NES 4605
(GB) (HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Co-meets with NES 6605 .
Z. Fahmy.
For description, see NES 4605 .
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ASRC 4672 - [Nationalism(s) in Arab World] (crosslisted) GOVT 4339 , HIST 4667 , NES 4672
(GB) (HA-AS)
Spring. Not offered 2015-2016. 4 credits.
Z. Fahmy.
For description, see NES 4672 .
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ASRC 4673 - [Body/Politics/Africa] (crosslisted) ANTHR 4673
(GB) (CA-AS)
Spring. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ANTHR 7673 /ASRC 7673 .
S. Langwick.
For description, see ANTHR 4673 .
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ASRC 4701 - [Africa in the African American Mind] (crosslisted) AMST 4701 , HIST 4701
(HA-AS)
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
R. Rickford.
For description, see HIST 4701 .
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ASRC 4702 - Cultural Politics of the 1970s (crosslisted) AMST 4702 , HIST 4702
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
R. Rickford.
For description, see HIST 4702 .
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ASRC 4800 - [Black Queer Studies] (crosslisted) FGSS 4801 , LGBT 4800
(SBA-AS)
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 6800 /FGSS 6801 /LGBT 6800 .
R. Snorton.
This course traces the genealogies and animating debates in black queer studies. Attentive to the relationship between black feminist criticism and black queer theory, this class proceeds with an understanding of gender and sexuality as intrinsic to the study of blackness in global contexts. Readings will include essays and books from Audre Lorde, E. Patrick Johnson, Christina Sharpe, Robert Reid Pharr, and others. Students will also engage popcultural texts, such as films, music videos, and novels to address the conjecture of blackness and sexuality in critical and vernacular discourse.
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ASRC 4805 - [Race & Racism/Law & Society] (crosslisted) AMST 4800 , GOVT 4805
(SBA-AS)
Spring. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Strong preference will be given to graduate students, law students, and undergraduates with previous coursework in the field. Co-meets with AMST 6800 /ASRC 6805 /GOVT 6805 .
A.M. Smith.
For description, see GOVT 4805 .
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ASRC 4900 - Honors Thesis
(CU-UGR)
Fall. 4 credits.
Permission of ASRC director of undergraduate studies required.
Staff.
For senior Africana Studies majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty.
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ASRC 4901 - Honors Thesis
(CU-UGR)
Spring. 4 credits.
Permission of ASRC director of undergraduate studies required.
Staff.
For senior Africana Studies majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty.
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ASRC 4902 - Independent Study
(CU-UGR)
Fall. 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
For students working on special topics, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty.
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ASRC 4903 - Independent Study
(CU-UGR)
Spring. 1-6 credits, variable.
Staff.
For students working on special topics, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty.
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ASRC 6022 - Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S. (crosslisted) GOVT 6022
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
J. Michener.
For description, see GOVT 6022 .
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ASRC 6066 - [The Family and Society in Africa and the African Diaspora]
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4606 /SOC 4780 .
N. Assié-Lumumba.
“The family, as a social institution, is structured according to historical, socio-economic, political, and cultural factors. Course topics include the concepts of the nuclear and extended family, the roles, rights and obligations of different age groups and generations; and marriage and its related issues, including parenthood, childrearing, and gender roles. Other issues examined are reproductive health, family planning, sexuality and fertility (particularly during adolescence), family codes, and legal implications. The course deals also with structural change and continuity, the impact of westernization, urbanization, formal education, and the contemporary economy on the structure and challenges of the family in Africa. Finally, the legacy of African family values and traditions in the African Diaspora, with a focus on the African-American experience, is discussed.”
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ASRC 6211 - Rebel Blacks and the Atlantic(s)
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4211 .
R. Wilson.
This course will read the historical archive as literature alongside contemporary and canonical theoretical texts that attempt to negotiate ideas of being and blackness. We will interrogate the position of the rebellious slave as it relates to discourses of “modernity” throughout the New World, paying special attention to the contexts of the United States and Mexico. The course will be guided by the following questions: How are we to take into account the multiple historicities and epistemologies that create a black subject across the Americas? When are regional or national borders productive in understanding the black subject’s relation to thought and when are they seen to be a hindrance? Finally, what are the broader theoretical implications of connections and divergences amongst various hemispheric articulations of black subjectivity?
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ASRC 6212 - Michel Foucault: Sovereignty to BioPolitics (crosslisted) ENGL 6912 , GOVT 6215
Fall. 4 credits.
G. Farred.
This course will explore the ways in which Michel Foucault’s oeuvre transitions from a concern with sovereignty to a preoccupation with biopolitics. Foucault’s early work (one understands that there is no absolute Foucaultian division into “sovereignty” and “biopolitics”), such as “Madness and Civilization,” attends to the structure, the construction and the force of the institution – the birth of asylum, the prison, while his later career takes up the question of, for want of a better term, “political efficiency.” That is, Foucault offers a critique of sovereignty insofar as sovereignty is inefficient (neither the sovereign nor sovereign power can be everywhere; certainly not everywhere it needs or wants to be; ubiquity is impossible, even/especially for a project such as sovereignty) while biopower is not. Biopower marks this recognition; in place of sovereignty biopower “devolves” to the individual subject the right, always an intensely political phenomenon, to make decisions about everyday decisions – decisions about health, sexuality, “lifestyle.” In tracing the foucaultian trajectory from sovereignty to biopower we will read the major foucaultian texts – “Madness and Civilization,” “Birth of the Prison,” “History of Sexuality” as well as the various seminars where Foucault works out important issues.
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ASRC 6230 - Imperial Realms/Black Worlds
Spring. 4 credits.
S. Grovogui.
The term ‘empire’ denotes a dominium, domain, or political space under the lordship of an entity with simple, full, partial, and, in any case, legal or near-legal and sovereign privileges over all others within it. Depending time, culture or traditions, and the available politics, an empire may be predicated upon direct ownership, occupation, tenancy, or usufruct by the overlord. In this sense, empire denotes a state of dominion of one political entity over key dimensions of the public and private lives of populations who are culturally and ethnically distinct from that of the ruling or imperial class. The structures, institutions, and values that give effect to empire are assembled under the rubric of ‘imperial’ while the ambition to or desire for it is ‘imperialism’. Lying within imperial realms but beyond their hold, Black People instituted historic forms of political subjectivity and agency through historic institutions whose legal, political and moral idioms generated discourses of freedom and liberties, obligations and duties, necessity and morality, and ministering and care – and therefore expectations from life. Spanning Africa, the Caribbean, and Americas, the related moral universes and their languages, values, and institutions are the objects of this course.
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ASRC 6303 - Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa (crosslisted) HIST 6303
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ASRC 4303 /HIST 4303 .
J. Byfield.
For description, see HIST 6303 .
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ASRC 6320 - The Origins of Black Studies: Texts and Contexts (crosslisted) HIST 6302
Spring. 4 credits.
K. Gaines.
This seminar represents a sampling of both classic and recent works in the Africana Studies intellectual tradition. While it is impossible to do justice to such a long, rich, and interdisciplinary body of intellectual thought in a single semester, the course seeks to provide a basic grounding in classic texts published over the course of the twentieth century, as well as recent scholarship on Africana intellectual projects and formations, and the social and political contexts of their production.
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ASRC 6321 - Black Power Movement and Transnationalism (crosslisted) AMST 6321 , HIST 6321
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
R. Rickford.
For description, see HIST 6321 .
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ASRC 6340 - Critical Race Theory: On Race and Law in the United States
(SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4304 .
O. Taiwo.
It is almost a truism that the United States is the world’s most litigious society. As a polity founded on an almost sacralized constitutional foundation, it is no surprise that law and the legal system are quite central to life, its conceptions, and its manifestations, as understood and led by most inhabitants of the country. This, in turn, engenders a faith in law and its attendant justice on the part of Americans. This faith encompasses certain attitudes on the part of different segments of the American populace towards legal discourse, the operation of the legal system, the justice promised by law, and so forth. In this class, we shall be exploring these diverse issues from the standpoint of Critical Race Theory. We seek to establish what CRT is and its genesis; what it does and how it does what it does, and what justification we might have or can provide for studying it. At the end of the class, participants should have a fairly robust idea of CRT, its fundamental claims, its applicability, and what insights it provides regarding the nature, function, and aims of law and the legal system in the United States of America.
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ASRC 6506 - African Aesthetics (crosslisted) ARTH 6506
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ARTH 4642 /ASRC 4406 .
S. Hassan.
The goal of this course is to investigate in-depth the principles of aesthetics and philosophy of African visual arts. The course will offer a critical survey of the different writings and the growing body of research on this relatively new area of inquiry. The objectives of the course are to review how African aesthetics has been studied to date, to provide a critical analysis of the different approaches to the subject and related issues, and to suggest future direction of research. In-depth analysis of particular African concept of time, space, color, form and socio-political order. In addition, issues related to African aesthetics and arts such as style, gender, class and social change will also be explored.
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ASRC 6507 - [Black Women Writers: Books to Screen] (crosslisted) ENGL 6507 , FGSS 6507
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ASRC 4507 /ENGL 4507 /FGSS 4507 .
C. Boyce Davies.
Novels, plays, poetry, autobiography by black women have become popular material for screen plays, appearing in the more classic presentations of Beloved or The Color Purple for example to the recent controversial Tyler Perry production of For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide. This course will examine a selection of representative works, by black women which have been converted to the big screen, allowing students to read these texts in their original form and then view the film adaption. From there we will engage in an assessment of what has transpired in terms of the representation of black women in each of these versions. Along the way we will also examine available interviews, documentaries and other materials which allow us to view black women in both the written and filmic tradition.
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ASRC 6510 - [Pan-Africanism and Feminism] (crosslisted) COML 6460 , FGSS 6510
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
C. Boyce Davies.
This course examines the particular theoretical intersections of Pan-Africanism and feminism through a study of works that address the lives of activist women and men who lived political lives that demanded an articulation of this intersection. It will examine representative texts in each of these broad fields, paying particular attention to those works that explicitly address the intersection. Students will select and study the work of one thinker in either category and examine the written life from a few angles. In particular, we will address the conflicts, disjunctures, and slippages between these positions; the possibilities and limitations as expressed by these thinkers; and the issues of collaboration, erasure articulated. Students will also have the opportunity to identify and discuss popular culture that addresses these themes.
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ASRC 6511 - The African Diaspora: Theories and Texts (crosslisted) ENGL 6511
Fall. 4 credits.
C. Boyce Davies.
The Middle Passage is perhaps the most evocative and simultaneously the most painful of transitions any people have made. Whereas for many the passage to the Americas was loaded with expectation of freedom, for Africans the passage across the Atlantic was loaded with pain, loss, and separation. The Middle Passage (referred to as the Maafa) then becomes a journey of separation, dismemberment, and dislocation. But it was also on the Middle Passage, for those who survived, that the transformation into African Diaspora peoples began. This course examines a range of middle passage texts such as novels, poetry, film, drama, slave narratives, and historical texts in order to explore comparatively how artists from across the African Diaspora have approached this historically and emotionally loaded event.
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ASRC 6513 - Toni Morrison’s Novels (crosslisted) ENGL 6513 , FGSS 6513
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4509 /ENGL 4509 /FGSS 4509 .
R. Richardson.
Toni Morrison is best known for her body of novels that began with publication of The Bluest Eye in 1970. We will focus on reading novels by Morrison, including The Bluest Eye, Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1998), Love (2003) and A Mercy (2008). The presentation of her novels in trilogy form and her contributions to the genre of historical writing will be given some consideration. We will explore the author’s stylistic innovation and expansion of this genre. We will consider topics such as how to read novels critically. In this course, we will examine some of the distinctions between how novels are discussed and written about in popular and academic contexts.
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ASRC 6514 - Post Colonial Studies and Black Radical Imagination (crosslisted) ARTH 6514
Fall. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ARTH 4514 /ASRC 4514 .
S. Hassan.
This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ways as the result of the immense contributions of African and African Diaspora theorists and intellectuals to the rise and evolution of postcolonial studies. Course readings include original texts by theorists and scholars such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Cesaire, W E B DuBois, Albert Memmi, Edouard Glissant, Leopold Cedar Senghor, C.L.R. James, Amilcar Cabral, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in addition to Nawal Sadawi, Edward Said,and Gayatri Spivak among others. In addition, we will explore the contributions made to both fields by feminist, gender, race, and sexuality studies.
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ASRC 6515 - Derrida In/And Africa (crosslisted) ENGL 6972
Spring. 4 credits.
G. Farred.
From the late-1970s on, the Algerian-born philosopher Jacques Derrida began to be much troubled by his African past. Reading Derrida as an African, reading for the African in Derrida, in, we might say, deconstruction, might find its apogee in Monolingualism, Or, the Prosthesis of the Other, but this course will “trace” the moment of African articulation in Derrida to both earlier moments and other texts, including Specters of Marx, and The Other Heading.
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ASRC 6516 - Sociology of Race & Education (crosslisted) SOC 6510
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4516 /SOC 4520 .
T. Gosa.
We will undertake an in-depth study of racial inequality and its relationship to schooling. The course content is centered primarily on the schooling challenges facing Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American students. We will investigate how issues such as the resegregation of schools, academic tracking, and teacher quality impact student achievement. The course reviews classic theoretical perspectives in the sociology of education, including education as social reproduction or cultural capital. Special attention will be given to the conceptualization and measurement of racial gaps in standardized test scores since the 1970s. We will also give some attention to how the debates surrounding race and education are influenced by popular discourse, including film documentaries.
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ASRC 6517 - [The Oprah Book Club and African American Literature] (crosslisted) AMST 6517 , ENGL 6740
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with AMST 4517 /ASRC 4517 .
R. Richardson.
The Oprah Winfrey Show reached a milestone in its production when it introduced the Oprah Book Club in. The Oprah Book club has strongly impacted African American literature in the course of its long history by highlighting a range of African American authors. This course will examine the work of some of the African American and African diasporan authors including Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Lalita Tadema, Ernest J. Gaines, Maya Angelou, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Pearl Cleage and draw on a range of critical and theoretical resources related to the Oprah Book Club archive, including its pedagogical outreach through technologies such as the internet, to discuss the impact of the Oprah Book Club on the genre of African American literature.
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ASRC 6587 - [Critical Race Theory] (crosslisted) AMST 6587 , GOVT 6578
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Strong preference will be given to: seniors and graduate students. Co-meets with AMST 4587 /ASRC 4587 /GOVT 4578 /
A. M. Smith.
For description, see GOVT 6578 .
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ASRC 6600 - Education and Development in Africa (crosslisted) EDUC 5020
Spring. 4 credits.
N. Assié-Lumumba.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the human capital theory that emphasizes the importance of formal education for achievement of full productive potential of individuals and economic growth and development of countries enjoyed a renewed popularity. African countries promoted educational expansion with the expectation that it would lead to socio-economic development. The initial euphoria, however, was followed by skepticism and then disillusion. Education, as it was being organized, delivered, received, and utilized, began to be perceived even as a hindrance to development. The course examines the relationship between formal education and individual and national development. Different paradigms of development, including modernization and dependency theories, and Third World Forum, are discussed with an emphasis on the perceived and actual roles of education in individual and national development. The issues to be discussed include education and schooling, the role of primary, secondary, and higher education in development, the problems of employment, language, equity in access and results with a focus on gender, race, and social class. Case studies, including selected countries of the different African sub-regions, will be used for illustration.
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ASRC 6602 - Women and Gender Issues in Africa
Spring. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4602 .
N. Assié-Lumumba.
There are two contrasting views of the status and role of women in Africa. One view portrays African women as controlled by men in all social institutions. Another view projects women as having a relatively favorable position in indigenous societies they were active with an identity independent of men’s and no concentration of women in a private sphere while men controlled the public sphere. This course examines critical gender theories and women in historical and contemporary periods. The topics covered include: non-westernized/pre-colonial societies; the impact and legacy of colonial policies; access to education and knowledge; women in politics and the economy in local and global contexts; women’s organizations; armed conflicts and peace; same gender love and evolving family values; the law and health challenges; the United Nations and World Conferences on Women: Mexico 1975, Copenhagen 1980, Nairobi 1985, Beijing 1995 and post-Beijing meetings, and the 2010 superstructure of UN Women.
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ASRC 6625 - [Race, Slavery, and Revolution: France and the Caribbean Colonies] (crosslisted) HIST 6625
Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.
P. Friedland.
For description, see HIST 6625 .
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ASRC 6800 - [Black Queer Studies] (crosslisted) FGSS 6801 , LGBT 6800
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Co-meets with ASRC 4800 /FGSS 4801 /LGBT 4800 .
R. Snorton.
This course traces the genealogies and animating debates in black queer studies. Attentive to the relationship between black feminist criticism and black queer theory, this class proceeds with an understanding of gender and sexuality as intrinsic to the study of blackness in global contexts. Readings will include essays and books from Audre Lorde, E. Patrick Johnson, Christina Sharpe, Robert Reid Pharr, and others. Students will also engage popcultural texts, such as films, music videos, and novels to address the conjecture of blackness and sexuality in critical and vernacular discourse.
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ASRC 6805 - [Race & Racism/Law & Society] (crosslisted) AMST 6800 , GOVT 6805
Spring. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.
Permission of instructor required. Strong preference will be given to graduate students, law students, and undergraduates with previous coursework in the field. Co-meets with AMST 4800 /ASRC 4805 /GOVT 4805 .
A.M. Smith.
For description, see GOVT 6805 .
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ASRC 6900 - Independent Study
(CU-UGR)
Fall. 1-6 credits, variable.
Enrollment limited to: graduate standing.
Staff.
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ASRC 6901 - Independent Study
(CU-UGR)
Spring. 1-6 credits, variable.
Enrollment limited to: graduate standing.
Staff.
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ASRC 6902 - [Africana Graduate Seminar: History, Political, Social Anaylsis]
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 3 credits.
S. Grovogui.
This course is the first in a two-part course sequence offered in the fall and spring semesters annually. (PALABER: HAVE A SEAT; HEAR ME OUT)
In English, “Palaber” is defined as loud and confused and empty talk. In French, the word although still derogatory refers more properly to gatherings in so-called traditional African societies where information is exchanged among members of the community; decision are made about the quotidian; and justice is rendered.
In this spirit the present course is an Introduction to what the faculty assembled in this department of Africana Studies and elsewhere tell themselves about their academic mission, their intellectual agenda, and the wisdom and academic content that they wish to impart to the incoming class on research in Historical, Political, and Social Analysis. The theme is open to each entering class based on its composition and interest. Ideally, the theme should relate to the students’ interest and bear on the three principal geographical areas currently represented Cornell’s ASRC: the US, Caribbean, and Africa.
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ASRC 6903 - Africana Studies Graduate Seminar
Spring. 4 credits.
Designed for first-year ASRC graduate students.
N. Rooks.
The seminar is coordinated and supervised by one professor but team taught by three or four faculty members per semester. Each participating faculty member is responsible for a topical segment of the course related to her or his areas of specialization or an area of interest pertaining to theory and methodology of Africana Studies.
Spring Topic: -Cultural, Literary, Visual Analysis
The second in a two-part course sequence offered in the fall and spring semesters annually and it surveys the Black intellectual traditions of the field through an exploration of the “great books” and classic texts that develop, define, shape and contest the contours of Black cultural, literary and visual analysis in the diaspora.
There are certain seminal essays and books in Africana Studies with which you should be familiar and which pose central questions for the study of people of African ancestry in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Moreover, these classic texts provide a way of interrogating or examining the Black experience in the arts, history, literature, and politics. They help us to understand the lineaments and trajectory of Black thought, the similarities and differences in the condition and response of Black peoples throughout the African diaspora, and the ways in which we probe and analyze the meaning of Black ideas and action. Additionally, we will grapple with more recent debates about post-blackness and the post-racial.
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ASRC 7315 - Music in Urban Africa (crosslisted) MUSIC 7315
Spring. 4 credits.
C. Appert.
For description, see MUSIC 7315 .
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ASTRO—Astronomy |
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ASTRO 1101 - From New Worlds to Black Holes
(PBS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both ASTRO 1101 and ASTRO 1103 .
Enrollment limited to: 30 students per discussion section.
L. Kaltenegger.
“From Black Holes to undiscovered worlds” - a journey through our fascinating universe.
Ever wondered about the universe? What you see in the night sky? How stars get born and how they die? How Black holes work? And if there is life out there in the universe? Join us for a journey through our fascinating universe from Black Holes to undiscovered worlds through the newest discoveries. We are made of stardust. Ad Astra.
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ASTRO 1102 - Our Solar System
(PBS)
Spring. 3 credits.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both ASTRO 1102 and ASTRO 1104 .
Enrollment limited to: 20 students per discussion section.
S. Squyres, P. Nicholson.
The past few decades have seen incredible advances in the exploration of our solar system. In this course students learn about the current state and past evolution of the Sun and its family of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. The course emphasizes images and other data obtained from current and past NASA space missions and how these data provide insights about the important processes that have shaped the evolution of solar system objects. General astronomical concepts relevant to the study of the solar system are also discussed. Critical focus is on developing an understanding of the Earth as a planetary body and discovering how studies of other planets and satellites influence models of the climatic, geologic, and biologic history of our home world. Other topics covered include energy production in stars, global warming, impact hazards, the search for life in the solar system and beyond, and future missions.
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ASTRO 1103 - From New Worlds to Black Holes
(PBS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both ASTRO 1101 and ASTRO 1103.
Enrollment limited to: 22 students per laboratory, 30 students per discussion section.
L. Kaltenegger.
Identical to ASTRO 1101 except for addition of the laboratory.
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ASTRO 1104 - Our Solar System
(PBS)
Spring. 4 credits.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both ASTRO 1102 and ASTRO 1104.
Enrollment limited to: 22 students per laboratory, 30 students per discussion section.
S. Squyres, P. Nicholson.
Identical to ASTRO 1102 except for addition of the laboratory.
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ASTRO 1105 - The Universe
(PBS)
Summer. 3 credits.
Forbidden Overlap: students may not receive credit for both ASTRO 1105 and ASTRO 1107 .
Prerequisite: high school physics recommended.
D. Kornreich.
How do we measure the size of our galaxy and the size of the universe? Is the universe round or flat? How are the stars born, why do they shine, and how do they die? What are the chemical elements, and how were they formed in stars? What are quasars, pulsars, and black holes? How was the solar system formed? What are the environments of other planets like? What is the basic structure of Earth and the other planets? Will we catastrophically alter the earth? Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? How can we find out? Each student has an opportunity to make observations with small telescopes.
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ASTRO 1106 - Relativity, Cosmology, and Black Holes
(PBS)
Summer. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: high school algebra and trigonometry.
Staff.
Explanation of Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which brought about a fundamental change in our conceptual understanding of space and time. The consequences of the theory-including mass-energy equivalence, nuclear fission and fusion, and thermonuclear process in stars and why we can’t travel faster than light-and how it all makes sense. Cosmology, studying the evolution and future of the universe and general relativity. The death of stars: white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.
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ASTRO 1107 - The Universe
(PBS)
Summer. 4 credits.
Forbidden Overlap: Students may not receive credit for both ASTRO 1105 and ASTRO 1107.
D. Kornreich.
Identical to ASTRO 1105 except for the addition of the afternoon laboratory that emphasizes mathematical problem-solving. This option is recommended for potential majors in science and engineering.
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ASTRO 1195 - Observational Astronomy
(PBS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Enrollment limited to: 24 students.
G. Stacey.
Provides a “hands-on” introduction to observational astronomy intended for liberal arts students at the freshman and sophomore level. High school mathematics is assumed, but otherwise there are no formal prerequisites. The course objective is to teach how we know what we know about the universe. The course is set up with two lectures and one evening laboratory per week. Not all of the evening sessions are used. Planned exercises include five or six observational labs (star gazing with binoculars and small telescopes, telescopic observations and CCD imaging of star clusters, nebulae, and the planets, solar observations, radio observations of the Milky Way Galaxy), plus a selection of exercises from the following: experiments in navigating by the stars; construction and use of simple instruments such as optical spectroscopes and sun dials; laboratory spectroscopy; experiments in planetary cratering; collection and study of micrometeorites; analyses of planetary and lunar images obtained by the class, measuring the diameter of Earth or the size of the solar system.
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ASTRO 1700 - History of Exploration: Land, Sea, and Space (crosslisted) HIST 1700
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.
A University Course - This class highlights cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate.
S. Squyres, M. B. Norton.
For description, see HIST 1700 .
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ASTRO 2201 - The History of the Universe
(PBS)
Spring. 3 credits.
No scientific background assumed.
R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes.
General discussion of how the universe has evolved since the Big Bang era and how our understanding of it has changed from ancient to modern times. Several main themes are covered over the course of the semester: the evolution of our view of the sky from that of ancient cultures to that of space telescopes; the formation and nature of black holes; dark matter and dark energy; and the origin, evolution, and fate of the universe. Presents a nonmathematical introduction to these subjects and discusses uncertainties and unresolved issues in our understanding.
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ASTRO 2202 - A Spacecraft Tour of the Solar System
(PBS)
Spring. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: some background in science. Enrollment limited to: freshman or sophomore standing.
A. Hayes.
Writing course designed to develop an understanding of our home planet as a member of a diverse family of objects in our solar system. Discussion centers on how studies of other planets and satellites have broadened our knowledge and perspective of Earth, and vice versa. We study, debate, and learn to write critically about important issues in science and public policy that benefit from this perspective. Topics discussed include global warming, the impact threat, the searches for extrasolar planets and extraterrestrial intelligence, and the exploration of Mars.
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ASTRO 2211 - Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
(PBS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: introductory calculus or co-registration in MATH 1110 or MATH 1910 or permission of instructor. Intended for first- and second-year engineering and physical sciences students.
D. Riechers.
Course surveying the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang onwards: what happens in the first few minutes of the universe’s life; star formation, structure, and evolution; the physics of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; galaxy formation and structure; and cosmology. The roles of quantum physics, particle physics, and relativity in astrophysics are discussed (no prior knowledge of these is assumed). The course is more in-depth than ASTRO 1101 /ASTRO 1103 . All course materials are made available online.
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ASTRO 2212 - The Solar System: Planets, Small Bodies and New Worlds
(PBS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: introductory calculus or co-registration in MATH 1110 or MATH 1910 ; some knowledge of classical physics (mechanics and thermodynamics). Intended primarily for first and second-year physical science and engineering students.
D. Campbell.
Introduction to the solar system with emphasis on the quantitative application of simple physical principles to the understanding of what we observe or can deduce. Topics include the formation and evolution of the solar system, how stars including the Sun work, the interiors, surfaces, and atmospheres of the planets including the effects of greenhouse gases on climate, smaller bodies and the orbits of solar system bodies. Many planetary systems about other stars have now been discovered and comparisons will be made with our own system. Results from past and current spacecraft missions will be discussed including the Cassini mission to the Saturn system and the Mars Rovers. Class involvement will include individual projects and presentations. The course is more in-depth than ASTRO 1102/1104. All course materials will be available online.
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ASTRO 2290 - [Relativity and Astrophysics]
(PBS)
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: freshman physics, calculus, and geometry.
D. Chernoff.
Provides a geometrically based introduction to special and general relativity, followed by consideration of astrophysical applications.
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ASTRO 2299 - Search for Life in the Universe
(PBS)
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: two courses in any physical science subject or permission of instructors.
Y. Terzian.
This course surveys the possibilities for life in the cosmos and the search for it, against the backdrop of our modern understanding of the cosmos. It covers ideas about the origin of the universe and how structure arises, the formation of stars and planets, how life might have begun on planets, the evolution of life on the Earth, and the search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond.
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ASTRO 3301 - [Exoplanets & Planetary Systems]
(PBS)
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: PHYS 1112 or PHYS 1116 and PHYS 2213 or PHYS 2217 , MATH 1120 , MATH 1220 or MATH 1920 or permission of instructor.
J. Lunine. L. Kaltenegger.
Hundreds of planets around other stars have been discovered over the past two decades, and many more discoveries are sure to come. How are these discoveries made and what are the properties of these exoplanets and their systems? How exotic can we expect exoplanets to be? Is our solar system a typical planetary system or something unusual? How common are planets like Earth? How might we determine whether exoplanets can host life, or do host life? These and other issues related to planetary formation and evolution will be discussed.
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ASTRO 3302 - The Life of Stars: From Birth to Death
(PBS)
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
P. Gierasch, G. Stacey.
Covers the formation and birth of stars, their lives on the main sequence and their evolution of the main sequence to their final end-states as white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes.
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ASTRO 3303 - Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
(PBS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: MATH 1120 , MATH 1220 , or MATH 1920 , PHYS 1112 , PHYS 1116 , or PHYS 2217 or permission of instructor.
M. Haynes, D. Riechers.
This course provides an overview of our current understanding of how galaxies have evolved over the last 13+ billion years and how their evolution has been influenced by their local intergalactic environment. We will look at the evidence that links supermassive black holes, gas accretion and merger events to galaxy evolution and track the star formation rate from early to current epochs. Additional topics will include the formation and distribution of clusters and groups of galaxies, the importance of dark matter and how galaxy evolution fits into the framework of current cosmological models.
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ASTRO 3310 - Planetary Image Processing
(PBS)
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: two semesters of introductory physics and some experience with computer programming. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to: sophomores or juniors majoring or concentrating in Astronomy or related fields.
A. Hayes, J. Lloyd
Reviews basic techniques employed in the collection and processing of spacecraft images of solar system objects.
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ASTRO 3332 - [Elements of Astrophysics]
(PBS)
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: MATH 1120 , MATH 1220 , MATH 1920 , or equivalent; PHYS 2213 or PHYS 2217 .
Staff.
Introduction to astronomy, with emphasis on the application of physics to the study of the universe. Covers: physical laws of radiation; distance, size, mass, and age of stars, galaxies, and the universe; stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis; supernovae and black holes; galaxies and quasars. Introduction to cosmology. Mainly intended for students of science, engineering, and science education interested in astronomy and astrophysics.
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ASTRO 3340 - [Symbolic and Numerical Computing]
(MQR)
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: calculus.
D. Chernoff.
Introduces modern symbolic manipulator programs, such as Mathematica and Maple, for students of quantitative disciplines. It will be offered as an elective in astronomy. The course will cover language concepts, programming tools and techniques necessary to use such programs efficiently. It will demonstrate the state of the art by treating examples from a wide variety of fields including mathematics, astronomy, physics, engineering, biology, statistics, and finance. The aim is to acquaint students with the integrated symbolic, numerical, and graphical capabilities that they may apply to their individual areas of interest.
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ASTRO 4410 - Experimental Astronomy
(PBS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: PHYS 2214 /PHYS 2218 or PHYS 3310 or PHYS 3360 , PHYS 3323 /PHYS 3327 (or co-registration).
J. Cordes, staff.
Observational astrophysics. Major experiments involve techniques in CCD (charge-coupled-device) imaging, optical photometry, optical spectroscopy, radiometry, radio spectroscopy and radio astronomy. The experiments involve use of the Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory’s 24-inch telescope, a laboratory two-element radio interferometer, and a radio telescope mounted on top of the Space Sciences Building. The laboratory covers the fundamentals of using astronomical instrumentation and data analysis as applied to celestial phenomena: asteroids, normal stars, supernova remnants, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, the interstellar medium, OH masers, and galaxies.
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ASTRO 4431 - Physics of Stars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
(PBS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: mathematics above 2000 level, physics above 3000 level. Recommended prerequisite: PHYS 4443 .
I. Wasserman.
Major topics include: the structure and evolution of stars; solar neutrino astronomy; stellar seismology; the physics of white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes; the physics of low mass stars and connection to planets. Basic ideas in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear and particle physics, fluid mechanics and general relativity are introduced in a practical fashion that emphasizes concepts useful for understanding astrophysical phenomena.
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ASTRO 4432 - Introduction to Astrophysics and Space Sciences II
(PBS)
Spring. 4 credits.
D. Lai, J. Lloyd.
An overview of modern astrophysical concepts for physical science and engineering students similar in terms of level, style and prerequisites as ASTRO 4431 . A previous knowledge of the ASTRO 4431 material is useful but not required. The course will include topics not covered in ASTRO 4431 , such as formation of stars and planets, dynamics of galaxies and clusters, dark mattere, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Current research problems in these areas are introduced along the way. The emphasis is on using fundamental principles of physics to explain astronomical phenomena.
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ASTRO 4433 - [Introduction to Cosmology] (crosslisted) PHYS 4433
(PBS)
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: math/calculus at 2000-level, physics at 3000-level or permission of instructor.
R. Bean.
An introduction to theoretical and observational cosmology aimed at interested science and engineering majors. Topics include an introduction to general relativity as applied to the cosmos; the cosmic expansion history and how it relates to the nature of matter in the universe; processes in the early universe; how galaxies and clusters of galaxies form; current and prospective cosmological surveys of galaxies, galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, and the cosmic microwave background. The material is at a less technical level than the graduate cosmology course ASTRO 6599 .
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ASTRO 4445 - Introduction to General Relativity (crosslisted) PHYS 4445
(PBS)
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: classical mechanics at the level of PHYS 3314 or PHYS 3318 and special relativity at the level of PHYS 1116 or PHYS 2216 . Also, electromagnetism at the level of PHYS 3323 or PHYS 3327 is useful. Offered as an alternative to the more comprehensive, two-semester graduate sequence PHYS 6553 and PHYS 6554 .
T. Hartman.
For description, see PHYS 4445 .
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ASTRO 4490 - [Senior Seminar: Critical Thinking]
(PBS)
Fall, Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Y. Terzian.
Critical thinking in scientific and nonscientific contexts with selections from the history of astronomy. Topics include elements of classical logic, including standards of evidence. Case studies include examples of competing hypotheses in the history of science, as well as examples from borderline sciences. Stress is put on creative generation of alternative hypotheses and their winnowing by critical scrutiny. Topics include the nature and history of the universe, the nature of time, the nature of reality, the possibilities of life on other planets, and artificial intelligence. Fallacies, illusions, and paradoxes will also be discussed. The course includes debates by the students on controversial topics such as: Can machines think? Is science and technology to be blamed for Hiroshima and 9/11? Should the genome be improved? Is the future determined?
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ASTRO 4940 - Independent Study in Astronomy
(CU-UGR)
Fall or spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Prerequisite: Recommend familiarity with topics covered in ASTRO 3332 or ASTRO 4431 . Permission of instructor required. To register: obtain an independent study form in department office, 610 Space Sciences Bldg.
Staff.
Individuals work on selected topics. A program of study is devised by the student and instructor.
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ASTRO 6509 - [General Relativity I] (crosslisted) PHYS 6553
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: knowledge of special relativity and methods of dynamics at level of Classical Mechanics by Goldstein.
Staff.
For description, see PHYS 6553 .
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ASTRO 6510 - [General Relativity II] (crosslisted) PHYS 6554
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: ASTRO 6509 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
For description, see PHYS 6554 .
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ASTRO 6511 - Physics of Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars (crosslisted) PHYS 6525
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: senior level physics at upper-division undergraduate level.
I. Wasserman.
Compact objects (neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs) are the endpoints of stellar evolution. They are responsible for some of the most exotic phenomena in the universe including: supernova explosion, radio pulsars, bright X-ray binaries, magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, and so on. Supermassive black holes also lie at the heart of the violent processes in active galactic nuclei and quasars. The study of compact objects allows one to probe physics under extreme conditions (high densities, strong magnetic fields, and gravity). This course surveys the astrophysics of compact stars and related subjects. Emphasis is on the application of diverse theoretical physics tools to various observations of compact stars. There are no astronomy or general relativity prerequisites. At the level of Physics of Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Star by Shapiro and Teukolsky.
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ASTRO 6516 - Galactic Structure and Stellar Dynamics
Spring. 4 credits.
D. Chernoff.
Introduction to the study of the structure of galaxies via the laws of modern physics.
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ASTRO 6523 - [Signal Modeling, Statistical Inference, and Data Mining in Astronomy]
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
J. Cordes.
Aims to provide tools for modeling and detection of various kinds of signals encountered in the physical sciences and engineering. Data mining and statistical inference from large and diverse databases are also covered. Experimental design is to be discussed. Basic topics include probability theory; Fourier analysis of continuous and discrete signals; digital filtering; matched filtering and pattern recognition; spectral analysis; Karhunen-Loeve analysis; wavelets; parameter estimation; optimization techniques; Bayesian statistical inference; deterministic, chaotic, and stochastic processes; image formation and analysis; maximum entropy techniques. Specific applications are chosen from current areas of interest in astronomy, where large-scale surveys throughout the electromagnetic spectrum and using non-electromagnetic signals (e.g., neutrinos and gravitational waves) are ongoing and anticipated. Applications are also chosen from topics in geophysics, plasma physics, electronics, artificial intelligence, expert systems, and genetic programming. The course is self-contained and is intended for students with thorough backgrounds in the physical sciences or engineering.
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ASTRO 6525 - Techniques of Optical/Infrared, Submillimeter and Radio Astronomy
Fall. 4 credits.
J. Cordes.
Covers telescope design, optical design and instrumentation for wavelengths from optical to radio and their relation to current research needs. Adaptive optics, interferometry and aperture synthesis will also be covered. Instrumentation discussions will include CCD and IR/submillimeter detector arrays, heterodyne systems and phased array feeds at radio wavelengths as well as camera designs, cryogenic systems, spectrographs/spectrometers and interferometric correlators. Sensitivity issues, observing techniques, polarimetry and data analysis will be discussed.
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ASTRO 6530 - Astrophysical Processes
Fall. 4 credits.
D. Lai.
Fundamentals of radiative transfer, bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation, Compton scattering, spectral line transfer, gas heating and cooling, and topics in atomic and molecular spectroscopy are discussed within the framework of astrophysical sources and problems.
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ASTRO 6531 - [Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics]
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
D. Lai.
This course will survey fluid dynamics (including magnetohydrodynamics and some plasma physics) important for understanding astronomical phenomena. Topics include basic fluid and MHD concepts and equations, waves and instabilities of various types (e.g., sound, gravity, Rossby, hydromagnetic, spiral density waves; Rayleigh-Taylor, thermal, Jeans, rotational, magnetorotational instabilities), shear and viscous flows, turbulence, shocks and blast waves, etc. These topics will be discussed in different astrophysical contexts and applications, such as atmosphere and ocean, star and planet formation, compact objects, interstellar medium, galaxies and clusters. This course is intended mainly for graduate students (both theory and observation) interested in astrophysics and space physics. No previous exposure to fluid dynamics is required.
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ASTRO 6560 - [Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution] (crosslisted) PHYS 7667
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: physics at the advanced undergraduate-level. Though helpful, no astronomy background required.
I. Wasserman.
Intended to provide a systematic development of stellar astrophysics, both theory and observations. Topics include hydrostatic equilibrium; equation of state; radiation transfer and atmospheres; convection and stellar turbulence; nuclear burning and nucleosythesis; solar neutrinos; star formation; pre-main sequence stars; brown dwarfs; end states of stellar evolution (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes); supernovae; interacting binary stars; stellar rotation and magnetic fields; stellar pulsations; winds and outflows.
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ASTRO 6570 - Physics of the Planets
Fall. 4 credits.
P. Nicholson.
Introductory survey of planetary science with an emphasis on the application of physical principles.
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ASTRO 6575 - [Planetary Atmospheres] (crosslisted) EAS 5750
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: undergraduate physics, vector calculus.
P. Gierasch.
Introduction to radiative transfer in emitting and scattering atmospheres. Radiative energy balance and radiative equilibrium. Structures of the atmospheres in the solar system. Introduction to motions in atmospheres. Planetary examples of balanced flows. Mesoscale waves, wave absorption and wave accelerations. Planetary waves. The influence of wave accelerations on thermal structure and composition. Introduction to atmospheric chemistry. Dynamical transports. Observations. At the level of Andrews, Atmospheric Physics.
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ASTRO 6577 - [Planetary Surface Processes] (crosslisted) EAS 5770
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 3-4 credits, variable.
Three credits for course only; 4 credits if registered for lab trip.
A. Hayes, M. Pritchard.
Survey of processes involved in the formation and evolution of the surfaces of solar system bodies. Surface morphology and landforms of terrestrial planets, planetary satellites, asteroids, and comets. Fundamentals of impact cratering, volcanism, tectonism, and erosion as applied to planetary surfaces, with significant emphasis on terrestrial field examples as analogs and study sites. Basic introduction to physical, geochemical, and “space” weathering of planetary surfaces. Basic introduction to field methods and remote sensing techniques and data sets (terrestrial, spacecraft). Students enrolled in the course can participate in an optional field trip over Spring Break to a “classic” planetary surface process analog field site (e.g., Meteor Crater, Amboy, White Sands, Hawaii, Grand Canyon, Death Valley) for 1 additional credit. Grading based on participation in discussions, critical literature reviews, and final project/presentation.
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ASTRO 6578 - Planet Formation and Evolution (crosslisted) EAS 5780
Spring. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: familiarity with elementary physics and math or permission of instructor.
J. Lunine.
Survey of chemical and physical processes important to the origin and evolution of planetary systems. The first part of the course will cover the formation of planets including the astronomical context, nucleosynthesis, meteoritics, condensation sequence, accretion, dynamical evolution, and observational constraints (disks, exoplanets, major planets, satellites, and small bodies). The second part of the course will cover planetary internal structure and evolution including melting, differentiation, core formation, convection, thermal evolution, and magnetic fields.
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ASTRO 6579 - Celestial Mechanics (crosslisted) MAE 6720
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: advanced undergraduate course in dynamics or permission of instructor.
J. Burns.
For description, see MAE 6720 .
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ASTRO 6590 - [Galaxies and the Universe]
Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.
D. Riechers, M. Haynes.
The universe, its large-scale structure and history; morphology, photometry, dynamics, kinematics and active nuclei of galaxies; galaxy formation and evolution; cosmological theory and observations.
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ASTRO 6599 - Cosmology (crosslisted) PHYS 6599
Fall. 4 credits.
Prerequisite: statistical physics, quantum mechanics, and electromagnetic theory courses.
R. Bean.
Intended to provide a detailed theoretical development of current ideas in cosmology. Topics include Big Bang cosmology and universe’s matter content; a cosmological chronology very early universe, symmetry breaking, inflationary scenarios, nucleosynthesis, recombination, growth of irregularities, galaxy formation and clustering, dark energy; current and future cosmological observational approaches.
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ASTRO 6940 - Advanced Study and Research
Fall or spring. 1-4 credits, variable.
Staff.
Guided reading and seminars on topics not currently covered in regular courses.
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ASTRO 7671 - Seminar: Topics in Planetary Science - Exoplanets
Spring. 3 credits.
L. Kaltenegger.
Course explores current issues in planetary science. Topics vary by semester.
Spring 2016 Topic: Exoplanets–New Frontiers
The Spring 2016 semester will cover the latest discoveries and current ideas on extrasolar planet search and characterization. Peter Gierasch and Lisa Kaltenegger will in addition provide input and their views on the latest results. Topics covered include: How universal are the planets in our own solar system? What can use as biosignatures and what are alternative biosignatures to Earth’s? How can we use theory and observation to best guide searches? Can we classify circulation regimes based only on the sparse data from only a few examples? How will rotation rate and atmospheric composition influence detectability of chemical absorption features? How does the geometry determine what you can detect of a planet and of its atmosphere? How well are the planetary parameters constrained especially considering the uncertainties in stellar data.
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ASTRO 7690 - Computational Physics (crosslisted) PHYS 7680
Spring. 3 credits. S-U grades only.
Co-meets with PHYS 4480 .
Staff.
For description, see PHYS 7680 .
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ASTRO 7699 - [Seminar: Topics in Theoretical Astrophysics] (crosslisted) PHYS 7665
Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 2 credits.
I. Wasserman.
Topics in condensed matter, atomic, nuclear and particle astrophysics will be treated, with examples from domains ranging from planets to white dwarfs and neutron stars.
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BCS 1131 - [Elementary Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian I]
Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 3 credits.
W. Browne.
Covers all language skills: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing.
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BCS 1132 - [Elementary Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian II]
Spring. Next offered 2017-2018. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: BCS 1131 or equivalent.
W. Browne.
Covers all language skills: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing.
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BCS 1133 - Continuing Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian I
Fall. 3 credits.
Prerequisite: BCS 1132 or equivalent.
W. Browne.
An intermediate course covering all language skills: speaking, listening, comprehension, reading, and writing.
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