This course covers the history of astronomy and the development of astronomical thought leading to the birth of modern astronomy and its most recent developments. Emphasis is placed on the coverage of astronomical instruments and measuring techniques, the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, important extra-galactic objects, and cosmology.
Laboratory is required.
This course provides an introduction to general physics for non-science majors. Topics in fundamentals of mechanics, properties of matter, heat and temperature, electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics. Laboratory is required. This course is designed to cover general physics at a level that assumes previous exposure to college algebra, basic trigonometry. A laboratory is required.