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Undergraduate Program
EAPS Undergraduate Degree Requirements
Planetary Science and Astronomy
Study of the physical, chemical and geological structure of solar
system bodies and their individual and collective evolutionalry histories.
Dynamical and Chaotic Evolution of Planetary Systems; Planetary Evolution;
Paleomagnetism; Kuiper belt objects and Small, Near-Earth Bodies and
Astroids.
Degree Chart
Foundation Material
One of the following subjects:
12.001 Introduction to Geology, 12, REST
12.002 Physics and Chemistry of the Solid Earth, 12, REST; 8.02, 18.02
12.003 Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean, 12, REST; 8.01, 18.02
12.006J Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos, 12; 8.02, 18.03 |
Mathematics Requirement
One of the following subjects:
18.03 Differential Equations, 12, REST; 18.02
18.034 Differential Equations, 12, REST; 18.014 |
Core Subjects
8.03 Physics III, 12, REST; 8.02*, 18.02
8.04 Quantum Physics I, 12, REST; 8.03*, 18.03
8.044 Statistical Physics, 12; 8.03, 18.03
12.008 Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach, 12; 8.03, 18.03
12.421J Physical Principles of Remote Sensing, 12; 8.03 |
Laboratory Subject
12.410J Observational Techniques of Optical Astronomy, 12; 8.03, LAB
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Research Requirement
12.TIP Thesis and Independent Study Preparation
12.ThU Undergraduate Thesis (at least 6 units) |
Restricted Electives
Choose 1: 1.00, 6.001; and Choose 1: 18.04, 18.05, 18.06, 18.075 |
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Departmental Program: units for required courses
| 180 |
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Departmental Program units that also satisfy the GIRs
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(36) |
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Unrestricted Electives
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36 |
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Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for S.B. Degree
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180
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| No subject can be counted both as part of the 17-subject GIRs and as part of the 180 units required beyond the GIRs. Every subject in the student's departmental program will count toward one or the other, but not both. |
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