A graduate course emphasizing further development and refinement of a body of work in preparation for a thesis and examination. May be repeated.

Graduate level printmaking. May be repeated.

Refinement of technical skills, seeing, and critical abilities while producing a significant body of work. May be repeated.

Creative and technical problems or research in selected areas. All students must file a special form in department office at time of registration.

Continuing development of a strongly personal means of aesthetic expression in three dimensions. May be repeated.

This studio course focuses on the planning and implementation of advanced site-specific work. Students personal interests will be paramount in the development of works that address site and audience. Professional practices necessary to carry out installations will be emphasized, including proposal development, project planning, and documentation. Environmental impact, health, and safety will be addressed. May be repeated.

Focusing on verbal and written articulation of critiquing skills, the Graduate Review will hold a Portfolio Review critique each semester. Critiques will provide a structured forum with faculty, fellow students, visiting artists, and curators to identify and articulate what they want to express. In each of the four semesters of the MA program, students participate in the Graduate Review course. Learning to express concerns, issues, and motivations, as well as the best strategies to do so, will form the basis of their research and practice. Analytical and evaluative skills develop as students gain experience critiquing and questioning their peers.

Specific problems in art emphasizing both individual research and contributions to the seminar group on advanced, in-depth topics appropriate for graduate students.

Alternate plan paper in lieu of thesis, done in cooperation with a major professor. (Credit is incomplete until final approval by student's graduate committee.)

Field experience in professional setting relating to the specialization: graphic design, museum or arts administration, etc.

Required of all candidates of the MA degree, this course is culmination of the previous sequential graduate studio blocks and reviews. Concepts developed will result in a body of work that constitutes the graduate exhibition or presentation. An oral defense of the ideas presented in the exhibition or presentation is required. Documentation will be submitted by the MA candidate and will become part of the Department of Art & Design¿s files. The candidate will also create and submit appropriate announcements, posters, and descriptions for public relations.

Broad survey of astronomy: the night sky, seasons, moon phases, eclipses, light, telescopes, stars, stellar evolution, galaxies, cosmology, the solar system.

Goal Areas:

GE-03

Survey of our solar system: the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids; history of the discovery and exploration of the solar system.

Goal Areas:

GE-03

The probability of extraterrestrial intelligent life; the chemical basis of life; planetary environments; habitable zones; the Drake equation; UFOs; space travel; interstellar communication; limits on technical civilizations. General Education Categories 2 and 3.

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-03

The probability of extraterrestrial intelligent life; the chemical basis of life; planetary environments; habitable zones; the Drake equation; UFOs; space travel; interstellar communication; limits on technical civilizations. General Education Categories 2 and 3.

Techniques for observing with the naked eye, binoculars and small telescopes; constellation and star identification; use of star atlases and handbooks; observations of stars, binaries, clusters, nebulae, planets and the sun and moon, etc. Students will also learn how astronomical theories are formulated and tested by observing phenomena in the sky. Evening observing labs required.

Prerequisites:

AST 101

Goal Areas:

GE-03

The celestial sphere; coordinate systems; sidereal and solar time; diurnal motion; precession; proper motion; refraction; aberration; parallax. Requires a background in trigonometry.

Celestial mechanics; gravitational and tidal forces; stellar motions and parallax; radiation and matter; magnitudes and stellar spectra; binary stars and stellar masses; stellar structure and evolution.

Prerequisites:

MATH 121 and PHYS 221

Stellar endpoints; close binary systems; variable stars; the Milky Way; normal galaxies; galactic evolution; active galaxies and quasars; cosmology.

Prerequisites:

AST 215, MATH 122, PHYS 222

Operating the 0.5 meter telescope; operating the BRC 250 astrograph; learning to install and operate ancillary equipment for both telescopes.

Prerequisites:

AST 201 and AST 215, Consent

Photometric systems; observational techniques of point-source photometry: methods of data reduction; interpretation of data.

Prerequisites:

AST 215

Observations of extended sources; photometric calibration of extended sources; use of secondary standard stars.

Prerequisites:

AST 353

Reduction of digital images to determine positions, proper motions, and parallaxes of stars; analysis of errors.

Prerequisites:

AST 201 and AST 215

Line identification; radial velocity determinations; spectral classifications.

Prerequisites:

AST 225

Students will conduct supervised research in astronomy.

Prerequisites:

Consent