Preview of UCF AST 3043, Practice of Historical Astronomy

Last updated July 24, 2024

AST 3043 is a new, 3-credit, all-online course to be offered for the first time in the Fall 2024 semester.

The course can help satisfy requirements for the Astronomy Specialization within the Physics B.S. degree since this is a 3000-level AST course that can be counted as one of the "upper division AST courses" or one of the "select courses at a 3000 level or higher, approved by the Physics Department." Always discuss your course selections with your academic advisor before assuming a course will satisfy a degree requirement!

The course can help satisfy requirements for the Astronomy Minor since this is a 3000-level AST course that can be counted as one of the "Restricted Electives".


Part of the "Simple Syllabus" is available publicly, and even within the SS collection itself if you're logged in.
Some of the particulars of the course are as follows:
The course is broken up into three eras. Each era has some learning outcomes. These are preliminary, since I may change the details a bit as I flesh out the course. But these give the basic idea.... Note that while some of the items on here may sound like they overlap with AST 4700, they will cover distinct material.
  1. Pre-telescopic astronomy (antiquity to 1610 CE).
  2. Visual telescopic astronomy (1610 to approx. 1860 CE).
  3. Photographic telescopic astronomy and early astrophysics (approx. 1860 to approx. 1950 CE).



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