This team-taught course brings together faculty from the Natural Science and the Rhetoric Divisions of the College of General Studies. Both professors will be on-site for the entirety of each class. Classes will run in the evening, once weekly for three hours, with each session devoted to a variety of educational strategies:

• Lecture-style presentation of key concepts from science and philosophy, broken up by active learning as described below.
• Active learning promoted through short in-class writing assignments followed by peer-to-peer discussion—leading in turn to whole-class discussion as described below.
• Whole-class discussion of scientific discoveries and their impact on the arts—as well as the influence of art, culture, and society in shaping scientific inquiry and discovery.

Outside of the classroom we will draw on a variety of experiential learning strategies:

• rooftop stargazing during class sessions
• fieldwork assignments requiring astronomical measurements
• possible planetarium visit