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LaGuardia Community College
City University of New York
Natural Sciences Department
SCP 140 – Topics in Astronomy
Spring 2022
Instructor: Dr. Allyson Sheffield
Office: M-216
E-mail: asheffield@lagcc.cuny.edu
Office Hours:
- Monday, 12:30 – 2:00pm
- Wednesday, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Online (zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/my/allyson.sheffield)
Class Details
Tuesday, 3:25 – 6:45pm, Room E-3483 hours / 3 credits
Prerequisites
CSE099/ENA/ENG/ESA099/ECC101, MAT096
Text
Astronomy, Fraknoi, Morrison, and Wolff. Openstax (2016).
ISBN 13: 978-1-947172-24-1
This is a FREE online textbook:
https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy
A print copy can also be purchased for approximately $60.
Course Objectives
- To describe the scientific method.
- To describe the sky above and various celestial phenomena.
- To describe the history of astronomy from Greece to modern times.
- To explain the basic laws of motion and gravity.
- To explain how properties of light can infer properties of the planets, stars, and galaxies.
- To compare and contrast the planets.
- To compare different classes of stars.
- To explain the birth, life, and death of a star.
- To explain the structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way and other types of galaxies.
- To describe the phenomena of black holes.
- To describe dark matter and dark energy.
- To describe the elements of cosmology and the big bang theory.
