Weather-related topics, including properties of the atmosphere, precipitation, air masses, weather fronts, hurricanes, tornadoes, clouds, the greenhouse effect, air pollution, weather modification, and climatic changes are covered in this class. The laboratory topics include interpretation of weather maps, weather forecasting, humidity, climatic analysis, and problems of modern meteorology. ESC 110 Observational Astronomy 2 cr. Emphasis is on astronomical observation in this class which requires students to become proficient in the use of a telescope. Topics include observations of the sun, moon, planets, multiple-star systems, and nebulae.
Students use star charts and celestial globes and photograph the moon.
Conditions permitting, students visit the Hayden Planetarium and the space and meteorite exhibits. 1 hr, lect. ESC 111 Laboratory for Sky, Air, and Space 1 cr. Designed as a laboratory for those students majoring in subjects other than science, this class covers such areas as an observation session of the sun, moon, and planets, using the college telescope and studies of the atmosphere, weather and global climates, and human impacts. This class supplements ESC 101 Sky, Air, and Space.