ELEC-A4930 - Astronomical View of the World, Lecture, 9.1.2024-9.4.2024
This course space end date is set to 09.04.2024 Search Courses: ELEC-A4930
Course timeline
Krav för slutförande
The course timeline is shown
below. There is no exam. Instead, continuous assessment comes in form of
weekly assignments and learning diaries. The three-credit course work
consists of
- twelve lectures, each with
- preliminary work (reading an article, watching a video, etc.) and
- assignments (short essay, questionnaire, reading, etc., with deadline at the end of the week),
- two evaluation sessions during the exam weeks, with no lecture but other activities, and
- four learning diary submissions (LD), with specific deadlines, and
- participation in peer and self assessment for three LDs.
- an excursion to the Helsinki Observatory museum.
For workload and other details, see the description "How the course works" (Preliminary work for Lecture 1).
The last in-class lecture is on Tue 9.4.2024, and the last assignments etc. are due 16.4.2024. The grades and credits are expected in early May.
TENTATIVE Course timeline
Notes:
- The exact order of the last six lectures is not yet fully fixed.
- On Tuesday 2.4.2024 there is no lecture due to "spring break"
- There is also an excursion outside the lecture hours, on Tue 5.3.2024 18:00-20:00, to the Helsinki Observatory museum. Participation is not mandatory, but highly recommended. More information will be published later.
- Update 4.3.2023: Lectures 10 & 9 change places; the new order is: "L9: Cosmological view of the world" and "L10: Astronomy in art and popular culture"
L | Date | Topic | Theme | LD DL |
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1 |
9.1. |
Introduction and cosmic scales | Background, basic celestial mechanics | 30.1. |
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2 |
16.1. | Solar system |
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3 |
23.1. |
Celestial mechanics from the ... | |||
4 |
30.1. | One planet, one sky, one people | Ancient astronomy, from myths to science | 27.2. |
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5 |
6.2. | "Sancta terra" | |||
6 |
13.2. | Towards scientific astronomy | |||
ES1 |
20.2. | Evaluation session [submit the 2nd LD only after this one] |
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7 |
27.2. | The past 100 years |
Modern astronomy, astronomy in society | 19.3. |
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8 |
5.3. | Astronomy in the 21st century |
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9 |
12.3. | Cosmological view of the world |
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10 | 19.3 | Astronomy in art and popular culture | Today's astronomical worldview | 16.4. |
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11 | 26.3. | Future, open questions |
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12 | 9.4. | Astrobiology (by Esko Valtaoja) | |||
ES2 |
16.4. | Online tasks (approx. 2 hours in total), open after the last lecture, DL 16.4. |
Senast redigerad: måndag, 4 mars 2024, 11:01