Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Astronomy 2021A/B

THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE


This course is designed for non-science students as an introduction to current scientific thinking on the possibility of extraterrestrial life and intelligence. Ideas, observations, and experiments from the frontiers of many areas of science converge in this unique interdisciplinary field. Emphasis will be on topics of current interest, including searches for life in our Solar System, detection of extrasolar planets, and the origins of life on Earth.

Antirequisite(s): Physics 1101A/B, Physics 1201A/B, Physics 1401A/B, Physics 1501A/B, the former Physics 1028A/B, the former Physics 1301A/B.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY C i  
Subject Code: ASTRONOM

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