Course Number:

Credit Hours:

1

Course Title:

Research Seminar 1

Course Description:

Offered in the fall semester, this one-unit seminar course is taken by students with advanced standing who have passed the qualifying exam and are registered for PHY G890 or PHY G899. Students are required to give oral presentations on current research topics (typically their thesis research). The course is designed to promote interactions between faculty, advanced graduate students, and beginning graduate students and to broaden their intellectual outlook from one that is simply focused in a specific research area. Gives students the opportunity to learn to give lively and understandable presentations, a necessary skill in their professional development and an important component of their experiential education. Student and faculty listeners give feedback via an “evaluation” form. Students receive a satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade based on their participation.