Faculty contact: Professor Stacy McGaugh

ASTR 310 is a one credit hour course for 4th year undergraduate astronomy students. Depending on the week, we will be doing one of several various activities:

• Group discussion of a research paper from the astronomical literature.
• Research presentations by individual students.
• Research presentation by a visiting astronomer.

The course is graded pass/fail, based on the following criteria.

• Students must attend all sessions, unless an excused absence is arranged ahead of time with the instructor.
• Students must give a one oral presentation, which can be a research presentation, a review of a scientific article, or other topics on similar themes. The scheduling and topic of the talks will be arranged in consultation with the instructor.
• For meetings where a paper is being discussed, students must read the paper in advance and be prepared to lead a group discussion of the paper.
• For meetings where there are student presentations, the other students must complete a talk evaluation form after the presentation, to give to the presenter at the end of class.
• Full participation means: participating in discussion each meeting, contributing to the choice of papers for discussion, reading the assigned papers, giving assigned presentations, and completing talk evaluation forms.