PHYSICS 291, 292, 293 -- BACHELOR'S THESIS

Prerequisites:
Open to physics majors in their senior year.
Consent of instructor required for registration.

Syllabus:
A yearlong sequence of courses designed to involve the student in current research. Over the course of the year, the student works on a research project in physics leading to the writing of a "Bachelor's Thesis." A student who is assigned a grade of B or better for the thesis based on the project, and who achieves a grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the required undergraduate physics courses, is awarded a "B.A. with Honor's" degree. The project may be one suggested by the instructor. Most will be done within the research groups of faculty members, but some experimental projects can be done in the Student Project Laboratory. In every case, all phases of the project--including the literature search, design and construction of the experiments and analysis--must be done by the student. The instructor, faculty adviser, post-docs, and graduate students are of course available for consultation.

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