Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
1:00pm-2:15pm
TuTh
Math & Science Center - E300
Sidney Perkowitz. SNT. 41815 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Catalog Description: Fall, spring, summer. Students having taken Physics 116 for credit may not take this course. A descriptive overview of astronomy. The celestial coordinate system, time keeping, the planetary system, ancient astronomy, the sun, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, cosmology, and the origin of the universe.

Required Textbooks, Articles, and Resources

  1. Bennett, Jeffrey . The Essential Cosmic Perspective.
    ISBN: 978-0-321-50701-3.

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