ELEC-A4930 - Astronomical View of the World, 08.01.2019-09.04.2019
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Course timeline
Completion requirements
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.
- There is also an excursion outside the lecture time, on Thursday 28. February 2019, at 18-20, in Helsinki.
Click here for a graph showing the distribution of workload across the different tasks, and the effect each task has on the final grade.
Final deadline for all course-related work is Tuesday 9.4.2019 at 23:55. The grades and credits are expected by 30.4.2019.
Course timeline
Updates: Lectures 9 & 11 changed place; on 12.3. is a guest lecture by Prof. (emer.) Esko Valtaoja, and Joni's "Modern astronomical worldview" is on 26.3.
L | Date | Topic | Theme | LD DL |
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1 |
8.1. |
Introduction and cosmic scales | Background, basic celestial mechanics | 29.1. |
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2 |
15.1. | Solar system |
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3 |
22.1. |
Celestial mechanics from the ... | |||
4 |
29.1. | One planet, one sky, one people | Ancient astronomy, from myths to science | 19.2. |
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5 |
5.2. | "Sancta terra" | |||
6 |
12.2. | Towards scientific astronomy | |||
ES1 |
19.2. | Evaluation session (class) [submit the 2nd LD only after this one] |
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7 |
26.2. | The past 100 years | Modern astronomy, year 2000 ± century | 19.3. |
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8 |
5.3. | Astronomy in the 21st century | |||
9 |
12.3. | Astrobiology (by Esko Valtaoja) | |||
10 | 19.3. | Art and science fiction | Astronomy and society, art, biology, future, ... | 9.4. |
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11 | 26.3. | Modern astronomical worldview | |||
12 | 2.4. | Big open questions | |||
ES2 |
9.4. | Evaluation session (online, reserve 2 hours for this during the day) |
Last modified: Tuesday, 5 March 2019, 12:25 PM