An experiment for the Rice University Senior Physics Laboratory has been developed around the19F(p, α)16Oreaction. The experiment serves to introduce the student to nuclear spectroscopy in an environment almost identical with the research environment. The experiment makes use of a 5.5-MeV Van de Graaff accelerator and an on-line computer analyzer. The students are given much freedom to choose the measurements to be made, and are expected to devise methods for processing the data accumulated.