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

Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for S.B. Degree	180
Foundation Material 12.002 Physics and Chemistry of the Terrestrial Planets, 12, REST; Physics II (GIR), Calculus II (GIR) and one of the following subjects: 12.001 Introduction to Geology, 12, REST 12.003 Physics of the Atmosphere and Ocean, 12, REST; Physics I (GIR), Calculus II (GIR) 12.006J Nonlinear Dynamics I: Chaos, 12; Physics II (GIR), 18.03
Mathematics Requirement One of the following subjects: 18.03 Differential Equations, 12, REST; Calculus II (GIR) or 18.034 Differential Equations, 12, REST; Calculus II (GIR)
Core Subjects 8.03 Physics III, 12, REST; Physics II (GIR), Calculus II (GIR) 8.04 Quantum Physics I, 12, REST; 8.03, 18.03 8.044 Statistical Physics I, 12; 8.03, 18.03 12.008 Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach, 12; Physics I (GIR), 18.03 12.420 Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, 12; 8.03, 12.002, or permission of instructor
Laboratory Subject 12.410J Observational Techniques of Optical Astronomy, 15, LAB, CI-M; 8.282, 8.03*
Research Requirement 12.TIP Thesis and Independent Study Preparation, 6 12.ThU Undergraduate Thesis (at least 6 units)
Restricted Electives Choose one: 1.00 or 12.010; Choose one: 18.04, 18.05, 18.06, 18.075
Departmental Program: units for required courses	114-126
Departmental Program units that also satisfy the GIRs	24-36
Unrestricted Electives	78
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.