15 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 100Selected Topics1-6
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Historical and modern understanding of the nature of the solar system. Includes laboratory with observations. May be taken with AST 104 in either order or independently.
Historical and modern understanding of the nature of the universe beyond the solar system. Includes laboratory with observations. May be taken with AST 101 in either order, or independently.
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the SU academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Introduction to spacetime and relativity, cosmological redshift, binary systems, black holes, gravitational waves, and the Big Bang. No science prerequisite. For non-majors and majors.
A broad introduction to important and timely topics in astrophysics. Topics will include our local universe (the Sun and Moon), cosmology (the universe as a whole), star formation, stellar evolution, compact objects, black holes, multi-messenger astronomy and gravitational waves.
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.
Mathematical and observational methods in astronomy, including coordinate systems, parallax and apparent magnitude, command line computing, spectra, focusing power, the diffraction limit, interferometric design, orbital motion and Keplerian dynamics, order-of-magnitude estimates and secular dynamics.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
