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    Oct 10, 2024  
MCCC College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
MCCC College Catalog 2024-2025

ASTRN 151 - Introduction to Astronomy


Credit Hours: 4
Billable Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisites: RDG 090 ENGL 090  and competency at the MATH 090  level
MTA Natural Sciences Satisfier Y
Session Cycle: FWSU

This course is designed as a non-mathematically-intensive introduction to Astronomy.  Students will explore the appearance of the sky from the earth, the nature of light, telescopes, the formation, life and death of stars, the properties of galaxies -including our own Milky Way-  the properties of the Universe as a whole and  various cosmological principles, the properties and formation of our solar system, how life evolved on earth and the possibility of intelligent life in the Universe. Some day/evening outside observing may be required.