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UIS Catalog

 

UIS Graduate and Undergraduate Catalog
Academic Year 2006 - 2007

ASTRONOMY - PHYSICS
Thematic Activity

Emeritus Faculty Alexander J. Casella, Charles Schweighauser
Associated Faculty Hei-Chi Chan
Adjunct Faculty Brian Carrigan

Contact: (217) 206-6721
asp@uis.edu or www.uis.edu/astronomy/ 

Students may pursue an individualized degree that includes astronomy-physics through UIS' liberal studies or individual option programs.

The astronomy-physics option provides courses and laboratory work in astronomy and physics, featuring an astronomical observatory with one eight-inch and one 14‑inch Schmidt‑Cassegrain telescope, an eight-inch Newtonian telescope, an eight-inch fixed focal point telescope for persons with disabilities, two spectrographs, a hydrogenalpha filter, an objective prism, and three charge-coupled devices (CCD). A 20‑inch telescope and a 16-inch telescope are installed under dark skies at a site remote from the campus. They are used for training advanced students and for research work in photometry and spectroscopy. Opportunities are provided for students to do research with astronomy‑physics faculty. 

Admission
Courses are open to undergraduate and master's degree students.  In 400‑level courses, however, graduate students are expected to do additional work, including reading selected primary sources and, when appropriate, completing additional observatory/laboratory work. 

Individualized Degree Option
Students may pursue an individualized degree that includes astronomy‑physics through UIS' liberal studies program (bachelor's degree) or individual option program (master's degree).  A typical core group of courses for a degree might include: 

ASP 203 Modern Astronomy
ASP 404 Astrophysics
ASP 406 Modern Cosmology
ASP 407 Practical Astronomy
ASP 408 Observational Astronomy
ASP 409 Galaxies: Structure and Evolution 

Students should ask astronomy‑physics faculty for advice about courses related to degree work in the individual option or liberal studies programs.  Contact the program office for further information.