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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?