Students do 15-17 homework assignments and take 4 exams via the INTERNET.

The final exam will be an hour exam.  There will be about 5-6 questions.  The 
answers will require sketches or diagrams.

I use the text book _UNIVERSE_, 7th Edition, by Freedman and Kaufmann.
Freeman and Company

A Short Overview (our place in the Universe)

Main Course Content:
1. The Sky and Celestial coordinates
2. Historical Astronomy (Copernicus, Tycho, Galilio, Kepler, Newton)
3. Light and Color (photons, wavelength, frequency, speed of light)
4. The Earth-Moon System (some simple mechanics)
5. Gravitation and Orbital Mechanics (Kepler's Laws and Newton's Laws)
6. Precession and Tides (applications of Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity)
7. The Terrestrial Planets (surface evolution and interior structure)
8. The Giant Planets (cloud top dynamics and interior structure)
9. Origin or the Solar System and Solar System debris (Asteroids, Impacts)
10. Properties of Stars
11. The Sun (Solar phenomena, Solar Structure and Solar Activity)
12. Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium
13. Stellar evolution of low mass stars (white dwarfs)
14. Stellar evolution of high mass stars (Neutron stars and Black Holes)
15. The Galaxy (Milky Way), Density Wave Concepts and spiral structure)
16. Galaxies
17. Quasars, exploding Galaxies and Radio Astronomy
18. Cosmology and the properties of the visible Universe
19. The Big Bang
20. Life in the Universe