In lessons on the night sky and how it changes with the seasons, you'll learn how to read star charts and identify planets along the ecliptic. You'll study cosmological models such as the Big Bang, unified field theories, and the origin of chemical elements, stars, galaxies, and our solar system. The course makes use of spectacular slides and videotapes showing the instruments, techniques, and observations of modern astronomy. In this course, you'll discover how the entire field of electronic engineering emerges from the underlying field of all the Laws of Nature and how all aspects of electronic engineering are interconnected. You'll explore both elementary and advanced principles of electronics, including electronic circuit theory, electron devices, semiconductor physics and technology, integrated circuits, microcomputer designs, electromagnetic devices, microwave engineering, and communications systems.
Most people take biological life for granted.
This course challenges that and many other profoundly mistaken assumptions about the nature of life. In the first half of the course, you'll learn the basics of how we relate to our biological environment. In the second half, you'll explore the many ways in which life transcends these incomplete descriptions. In addition to lectures and discussions, in-depth small group presentations of outside readings will help you develop communication skills as well as intimate knowledge and wisdom about living systems. Based on Total Knowledge of Natural Law With its 50 trillion cells, the human body is unfathomably sophisticated and complex, reflecting enormous intelligence.