GEOL 1415 Astronomy
This course is an integrated lecture and laboratory survey of astronomy that includes the history of astronomy, telescopes, celestial mechanics, time and the seasons, the Earth's Moon, the Sun and the planets, the nature and origin of stars, stellar evolution, the origin and nature of the Milky Way galaxy, types of and nature of nebula, the nature of star clusters, the nature and origin of galaxies, and cosmology.