[bioundgrd] Fwd: New January IAP Special Subjects from Physics

[Janice Chang]

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From: Catherine A Modica <cmodica at mit.edu<mailto:cmodica at mit.edu>>
Subject: info on new Special Subjects from Physics -- please circulate
Date: December 1, 2015 at 11:18:19 AM EST


The Physics Department is offering two exciting special subjects this January, one on the history and policy of nuclear weapons, the other on underwater photography (including a week in Belize!):

8.S30, Nuclear Weapons from Beginning to End?
Instructors:  A.M. Bernstein, Physics; J. Walsh, Political Science
Units listed in the catalog as “by arrangement”:  students enrolling should register for 6 units.
No pre-requisites; limited to 20 students; listeners welcome if space permits
MWF 2:30 to 5 PM, Jan. 4 through 29, in 26-414
An undergraduate course focused on nuclear weapons: the technology, the history, the role of scientists, doctrine, ethics, and public policy challenges (including Iran, North Korea, going to zero, and nuclear terrorism).  Each class will be comprised of two topics, each of approximately 40 minutes of lecture and 30 minutes of class discussion with a 10 min. break. The course is interdisciplinary and employs a multi-methods approach.  As a “for credit” class taught in the space of a month, students will be asked to actively engage the course readings and related preparation, requiring roughly 4 hours per class or 12 hours per week.  The grade will be based on class participation, and a paper with an oral presentation.
Contact: Aron Bernstein, 26-419, 253-2386, bernstein at mit.edu<mailto:bernstein at mit.edu>; James Walsh, E40- 479, 324- 3712, j_walsh at mit.edu<mailto:j_walsh at mit.edu>

8.S10, Underwater Conservation Photography
Instructors:  A. Adams, Physics; K. Ellenbogen, MIT Visiting Artist 2015-16; co-sponsor:  The Edgerton Center
Units to be arranged
No pre-requisites; limited to 24 students on-campus, 16 of whom will travel to Belize
MTWRF 9 AM to 12 PM, 4-261 (ends Jan. 22); plus MTWRF 12 to 5 PM, 4-361 (ends Jan 29)
Description: An intensive crash-course in underwater conservation photography covering everything from underwater optics to hacking simple ROVs to building custom imaging devices to the ecology of coral reef ecosystems and the behavior of their inhabitants. These topics will be covered in lectures, in lab work, on local field trips, and in team design and construction projects. The final week will be spent putting these skills and devices to use at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Glover’s Reef Research Station (GRRS) off the coast of Belize. Students from the University of Belize will be invited to join by Skype in Cambridge and in person on Glover’s Reef. Video and still images from this expedition will be collected into a traveling exhibition to be exhibited at the Bronx Zoo, the MIT Weisner Gallery, the Boston Museum of Science, SUNY/FIT, and beyond. Enrollment: Up to 24 students on-campus, 16 of whom may travel to the field station. Targeted at undergrads, open to anyone at MIT subject to availability. Scuba certification required.

Hours: 8 Units (2-5-1): 7 hours daily on campus, full-time on-site at GRRS.

Application:  http://turbulent.lns.mit.edu/IAP16
Applications due by Dec. 4th.

Note: All equipment & travel costs covered.


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