ASTR 1070 The Earth: Its Physical Environment

This course is a broad introductory level course in Earth and space science covering topics from physical and historical geology, meteorology, oceanography, planetary astronomy and stellar astronomy. It illustrates fundamental concepts, processes, products and the relationships between them. The course emphasizes the nature of science and relationships between selected topics and society. This course serves elementary education majors (who should also enroll in EDEL 1450 concurrently or the next semester) as well as other non-science majors. This course cannot be used as LSCI credit toward any A.S. degree in Science or Math. Students earning credit in ASTR 1070 may not earn credit in GEOL 1070. (3 lect., 3 lab) LSCI

Credits

4 credits