2 courses with the subject AST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
AST 113Introductory Astronomy4
This course covers the development of our modern understanding of the astronomical universe from planets and stars to galaxies and cosmology. It is a broad introduction to Astronomy including the historical development of astronomy; the basic physics of gravity, light, and atoms; telescopes; planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system; the Sun and other stars; the evolution of stars; the Milky Way galaxy and other galaxies; distant quasars and other active galaxies; the expanding universe; and cosmology based on the Big Bang theory.
This course will give students access to robotic telescopes around the world from which they will take their own observations and create multi-color images while learning how astronomers reduce images and what the physical interpretations of the colors mean for each type of object. Students will observe the Moon, planets, star clusters and nurseries, stellar remnants, and galaxies in both optical and radio wavelengths. Multi-wavelength photometry and color combinations will allow students to understand the ages, temperatures, morphology, and evolution of these objects while also creating beautiful pictures of the universe.
