I expect you to read the text material and to be able to answer the review questions at the end of the chapters.
Course Goals
This course is designed to give non-science students an overview of the astronomical universe. In the course we will discuss not only what astronomers have learned about planets, stars, and galaxies, but also how they have learned what they know.
Course Expectations
To do well in this course you will need to develop and understanding
of the material. Brute memorization will not work. Moreover, you
must retain the basic ideas as we move along. For example, although we
first meet the Doppler shift in chapter 3, you will need to remember its
principles for all the rest of the course. We will use it repeatedly. Other
ideas will similarly be used over and over and if you don't understand them, you are doomed.