Extraterrestrial Life, ASTRO/GEOL 3300
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News
Final Exam is Saturday May 5, 1:30-4:00 pm in Duane G125. It will cover all course material with a mild focus on the Exoplanet lectures
Final Papers are due on turnitin.com by 2:00 Thursday May 3
Reviews due Monday April 23 at 11:59pm. Be sure to get on turnitin.com and finish your reviews of you classmates papers. The website should help you through the process of finding the two paper you are assigned to read. Then simply read them carefully and fill out the prepared questions making sure to make lots of comments to help your peers improve their papers.
All Lectures 1-24 are posted. All Homework and Exams are posted with solutions.
The Syllabus and Calendar are posted. Note, the important dates for Tests and Paper deadlines are fixed. However, the days on which content is covered will vary.
Logistics
| Meeting Times: | Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15 |
| Classroom | Duane G125 |
| Text: | "Life in the Universe", Bennett \& Shostak, 3rd edition |
| Office and Office hours: | F533 Tues/Thurs 3:15-4:30 (or by appoitnment) |
| Fiske Planetarium Website | http://fiske.colorado.edu/ |
| Facebook Page: | Astro3300 |
| Home page: | http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~kwalsh/ASTR3300/index.html |
| TA | Rebecca Poore: Duane E122: M W 2-4 |
| Syllabus | Syllabus Calendar |
| Term Paper | Instructions/dates |
Lectures
| Lecture 1, Tues 17 Jan | |
| Lecture 2, Thurs 19 Jan | |
| Lecture 3, Tues 24 Jan | |
| Lecture 4, Thurs 26 Jan | |
| Lecture 5, Tues 31 Jan | |
| Lecture 6, Thurs 2 Feb | |
| Lecture 7, Tues 7 Feb | |
| Lecture 8, Thurs 9 Feb | |
| Lecture 9, Tues 14 Feb | |
| Lecture 10, Thurs 16 Feb | |
| Lecture 11, Tues 21 Feb | |
| Lecture 12, Thurs 23 Feb | |
| Lecture 13, Thurs 1 Mar | |
| Lecture 14, Tues 6 Mar | |
| Lecture 15, Thurs 8 Mar | |
| Lecture 16, Tues 13 Mar | |
| Lecture 17, Thurs 15 Mar | |
| Lecture 18, Thurs 22 Mar | |
| Lecture 19, Tues 3 Apr | |
| Lecture 20, Thur 5 Apr | |
| Lecture 21, Tues 10 Apr | |
| Lecture 22, Thur 19 Apr | |
| Lecture 23, Tues 24 Apr | |
| Lecture 24, Thur 26 Apr | |
| Lecture 25, Tues 1 May | |
| Lecture 26, Thur 3 May |
Homework and Tests
| Homework 2, Tues Jan-24 Due Jan-31 | PDF Solutions |
| Homework 3, Tues Jan-31 Due Feb-14 | PDF Solutions |
| Homework 4, Tues Feb-14 Due Feb-21 | PDF Solutions |
| Homework 5, Tues Mar-13 Due Thurs Mar 22 | PDF Solutions |
| Midterm 1 | Solutions |
| Midterm 2 | Solutions |
