HR: 1340h
AN: ED13B-0726    [Abstracts]
TI: Optical Mineralogy at UCLA
AU: * Kavner, A
EM: akavner@ucla.edu
AF: UCLA Earth and Space Science Dept., 595 Charles Young Dr., East, Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
AB: Optical mineralogy is taught as part of a required undergraduate course in Earth Materials at UCLA. To strike a balance between teaching a rigorous optical mineralogy course while protecting classroom time for other mineralogy concept instruction, optical mineralogy is presented in two stages. In the first stage, a distillation of optics is presented in lecture, and two laboratories are fully devoted to optical mineralogy. In the second stage, each student will have a personalized project, and will dedicate the last part of their laboratory sessions to learning a single characterization technique at an in-depth level. Options include (but are not limited to): optical mineralogy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and electron microprobe. Lecture materials, Laboratories, Summaries of student projects, and student and TA feedback from UCLA's Fall 2004 Earth Materials course will be presented in this session.
DE: 8494 Instruments and techniques
DE: 8030 Microstructures
DE: 5194 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3694 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3994 Instruments and techniques
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting