The [course_title] is designed to enable you to develop a broader outlook on astronomical phenomena and practical methods to study them, along with a broad understanding of topics regarding planets and astronomy research and provide you with the skills needed for further study.
Through this course, you’ll explore the stars and their life cycles, including the structure of planets and their unique atmospheres, galaxies, space research, planetary processes, the origin and evolution of the Universe, etc.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
Certification
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Course Credit: Open Culture
Course Curriculum
Module: 1 | |||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-08-28: Course Logistics; Tour of the Solar System | 01:18:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-02 | 01:02:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-04: Seasons; Solar and Lunar Eclipses; Retrograde | 01:09:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-09: Copernican revolution; The Nature of Science | 01:14:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-11: Astrology: A testable theory. Your ideas can b | 01:13:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-16:Gravity, Force and Newton’s Laws: Physics! | 01:05:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-18: Tides, Energy, Momentum | 01:05:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-23: Properties of light; spectroscopy | 01:11:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-09-25: Light: emitted by Atoms; Photons; Thermal emis | 00:55:00 | ||
Module: 2 | |||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-02: Surfaces: Plate Tectonics, Volcanism | 01:17:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-07: Interiors: Core, Mantle, Crust; Seismology; Lu | 01:16:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-09: Mars: The Curiosity Laboratory on Mars | 01:03:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-14: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Exosphere, Layers | 01:08:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-16: Greenhouse effect and Global Warming | 01:10:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-21: Our Sun and Stellar Evolution; Actual solar ec | 01:12:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-23: Partial Solar Eclipse 2:30-3:30pm on campus | 01:07:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-28: Jupiter and its moons, especially Io and Europ | 00:59:00 | ||
Module: 3 | |||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-10-30: Saturn, rings, moons, Titan and Enceladus | 01:13:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-11-06: Asteroids, Comets, Pluto and Kuiper Belt | 00:59:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-11-13:Exoplanets: Using Doppler Shift; Determining pl | 01:07:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-11-18: The Nature of Biology on Earth: DNA, Origins, | 01:13:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-11-20: Life in the Universe: The Drake equation, SETI | 01:11:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-11-25: The Expansion and Acceleration of the Universe | 00:55:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-12-02: The Big Bang; Origin of Elements | 01:18:00 | ||
Astronomy C12 – 2014-12-04: The Origin and Fate of the Universe | 01:04:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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