Astronomy Course Description
Course Credits: 5
Course Curriculum Used:
Understanding The Universe:
What's New in Astronomy
Video Lectures by Alex Filippenko
Course Description:
This introductory level astronomy course will be supplemented with appropriate videos and guided observing sessions at The Eastern Iowa Observatory and Learning Center. It will also include a workshop on photographing the night sky.
Course Lecture Titles
From dawn to dusk
Exploring the night sky
Recent discoveries in our solar system
Other worlds galore!
The formation and evolution of stars
Supernovae, catastrophic stellar explosions
Gamma ray bursts and the birth of black holes
Observational evidence for black holes
Einstein's relativity
Cosmology and cosmic expansion
The birth and evolution of galaxies
The accelerating expansion of the universe
The stuff of the cosmos
Dark energy, may the force be with you
Theories of everything, and hidden dimensions
Our universe, one of many?