This language is spacial and physical. To stay in this class, you must come and participate. Students are allowed two unexcused absences. One authorization required. Second Half Semester Course.
Astronomy is a different animal.
You cannot do lab experiments with planets, nebulae, stars, or galaxies. True, today we can land a robotic vehicle on the moon or Mars to test the chemical and physical structure of their surfaces. But we can't take either the moon or Mars into a laboratory on Earth and experiment with them. Astronomers can only check hypotheses about the universe and its parts by using observations and mathematics. This course will explore historically the importance of astronomy to human cultures and the connection of astronomy, as well as physics, to human creativity in such areas as literature, art, and music.