Covers history of astronomy and its recent developments. Stresses the use of astronomical instruments and measuring techniques and includes the study and observation of the solar system, stars, and galaxies.
This course serves as a one-semester laboratory science course for non-science majors and as a science elective for science majors. The topics covered are taught from a scientific perspective, with a focus on physics, geology and chemistry. Philosophical notions about the universe that have existed throughout history to the present day will be contextualized into a cosmological understanding of the vastness of space and time. This course, in conjunction with NAS 125 (which we recommend be updated to PHY 155) Meteorology, may fulfill the requirement as a one-year lab science course for non-science majors.