Coursework
I chose to pursue Astrophysics and Women's Studies because I am passionate in both topics. Space and the worlds we cannot see or comprehend fascinates me and I am motivated to find a way to make work environments, such as NASA's, more open-minded and non-gender biased through my gender studies.
Majors:
Astrophysics
Women's Studies
Special Distinction:
Emerging Scholars Program
Courses:
AST3018 - Astronomy and Astrophysics 1
WST3015 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women's Studies
PHY2049 - Physics with Calculus 2
First part of a two part sequence. Survey of astronomy and astrophysics for physical science, engineering, or mathematics majors. Covers gravitation, orbits and tides; the Moon's phases and eclipses; light and spectra; the solar system; and a few historical milestones.
Explores the diverse experiences of women in past eras and in the present, and in the U.S. and abroad, by drawing on materials and methodologies from a variety of disciplines.
The second of a two-semester sequence of physics for scientists and engineers. Content includes Coulomb's law, electric fields and potentials, capacitance, currents and circuits, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, inductance, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, ray optics, interference and diffraction.