Hi;
It's been a few yearls since I took 1F03, but I can definitly reccomend it, especially if you have any interest in astronomy.
In general, it should be a an astronomy 'survey' course - you'll cover lots of different topics in modern astronomy, from planetary astronomy, to a bit of stellar evoloution and some extragalactic stuff. You get a pretty broad base.
Astronomy is a mathematically based science, so if you think math is the absolute worst thing ever and refuse to touch it I would avoid this course, but you won't be asked to do anything harder than a highschool level math, and not that often. Lots of non math/non physicse people take it as an option (lots of math and physics people take it as an option as well though )
I certainly enjoyed the course when I took it, and from what I've heard, it's being taught this year by one of my favourite astronomy profs at this school, in which case I would highly recommend it. I'm biased though, since I'm an astro geek ^_^.
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K. Shorten
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Physics & Astronomy.
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