| Jan. 29 | Introduction Accessible observational facts Human and Geological timeline | - | - |
| Feb. 5 | Gods & Myths Creation myths Modes of human knowledge | Harrison: Chapters 1, 25 | RR* |
| Feb. 12 | The Ancient Philosophers |
Stenudd: All | RR |
| Feb. 19 | Revolutions Copernicus to Galileo |
Harrison: Chapter 2 Explore Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Kepler Read Galileo: Starry Messenger Abbreviated Dialogue | Full Dialogue | RR |
| Feb. 26 | The Clockwork Universe Newton, Descartes | Harrison: Chapters 3 & 4 | RR |
| Mar. 4 | An Expanding Reality Einstein & Hubble |
Harrison: Chapters 7, 8 & 14 See also this AIP website | RR |
| Mar. 11 | MIDTERM | - | MIDTERM |
| Mar. 18 | SPRING BREAK | - | - |
| Mar. 25 | Model Universes | Harrison: Chapters 15, 18 | No RR |
| Apr. 1 | The Hot Big Bang | Harrison: Chapters 19, 20 | RR |
| Apr. 8 | Inflation |
Harrison: Chapters 21, 22 Class Handout. See also Ned Wright's cosmology tutorial, especially Flatness & Horizon & Inflation | RR |
| Apr. 15 | The Dark Side Physics colloquium Planetarium trip 4/16 |
Dark Matter: A brief primer | A modest primer | Dr. Dark Matter Other Perspectives: Does dark matter exist? | Dark matter is dead | RR |
| Apr. 22 |
Multiverses Can cosmology be a science? |
Class Handout (Tegmark) The Case Against Cosmology (Disney) | RR |
| Apr. 29 | Prof. McGaugh at DDA meeting | Reschedule to Planetarium trip April 16. | - |
| May 6 | - |
Term Paper now due by noon Thursday May 8. Turn in to me (CSS 1251) or my mailbox (CSS 1205). | - |
| May 13 | Life in the Universe |
Harrison: Chapter 26 Drake's Equation |
Meet in ARM 0102 |
| May 19 | 10:30AM - 12:30PM | - | FINAL |
*RR = Reading Response: one page written response to assigned reading.
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