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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Official General Catalog
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AST 113 - Introductory Astronomy
This course covers the development of our modern understanding of the astronomical universe from planets and stars to galaxies and cosmology. It is a broad introduction to Astronomy including the historical development of astronomy; the basic physics of gravity, light, and atoms; telescopes; planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system; the Sun and other stars; the evolution of stars; the Milky Way galaxy and other galaxies; distant quasars and other active galaxies; the expanding universe; and cosmology based on the Big Bang theory.
Credits: 4
Hours
3 Class Hours, 3 Laboratory Hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate scientific reasoning applied to the natural world, including an understanding of the methods scientists use to explore natural phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of data analysis or mathematical modeling.
- Demonstrate scientific reasoning applied to the natural world, including application of scientific data, concepts, and models in one of the natural sciences.
- Demonstrate scientific reasoning applied Astronomy, including describing and critiquing both the geocentric and the heliocentric models of our solar system.
- Demonstrate scientific reasoning applied to Astronomy, including identifying, classifying and comparing the objects in the Universe, including, but not limited to; atoms, nebulae, stars, stellar clusters, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies.
- Demonstrate scientific reasoning applied to Astronomy, including explaining the evolution of stars, as well as of the large scale structure of the Universe.
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