DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY.

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Notes: Laboratory work related to the covered topics is included. May include planetarium sessions. Pre-requisites: pre-university basic skills in mathematics. Satisfies: a BACR for natural sciences. This course develops astronomy from early geocentric models of the cosmos through the Copernican revolution to our modern understanding. The tools of astronomy are discussed, and how physical laws are applied in astronomy. Course topics draw from the subjects of our Sun, our solar system and planets, exoplanets, stars, galaxies, large-scale structure and cosmology.