Lecture: For nonscience majors. Introductory survey of astronomy. How we learn about the Universe and what we already know of it, how it originated, evolves, and its ultimate fate. Emphasis on modern research in solar phenomena, stellar evolution (including white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes) and galaxy studies (including quasars).

Lecture: For nonscience majors. Introductory survey of astronomy. How we learn about the Universe and what we already know of it, how it originated, evolves, and its ultimate fate. Emphasis on modern research in solar phenomena, stellar evolution (including white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes) and galaxy studies (including quasars).

Satisfies Junior Year Writing Requirement. The goal of this course is
to teach the writing techniques and styles that are appropriate for
the types of careers that might be pursued by an astronomy major. The
course will be composed of both a set of short writing assignments and
longer assignments, and some of these assignments will be orally
presented to the class. All students will critique the talks, and
some written assignments will be exchanged between students for peer
editing and feedback. Some papers will require analysis of

Topics include continuum emission mechanisms (synchrotron radiation, inverse compton, and free-free emission), dust emission, photo-ionization and recombination, excitation and transfer of atomic and molecular line broadening, and population inversion and astrophysical masers.

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