AAS 199th meeting, Washington, DC, January 2002
Session 154. The Undergraduate Astronomy Major: What and Why?
Special Session Oral, Thursday, January 10, 2002, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown East

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[154.05] Rethinking the Astronomy Major

S Edwards (Smith College)

The Five College Astronomy Department has designed several curricular offerings that use the discipline of Astronomy to provide project-based classes that enhance critical thinking and quantitative reasoning and emphasize development of both oral and written communication skills. We incorporate these classes with more traditional lecture-format astrophysics courses to offer a science major that will provide a firm foundation in a quantitative discipline that could lead to many career paths.


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