Fall 2008
ASTRONOMY 207T
Extraterrestrial Life in the Galaxy:
A Sure Thing or a Snowball's Chance?

Text & Other Resources
The primary text for the course will be Life in the Universe, 2/e, by Bennett & Shostak(ISBN 0805347534), published by Addison Wesley in 2007, available at Water Street Books. Several other books with required reading will be on reserve in Schow.

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Course Requirements and Grading
Each student will present five papers in tutorial session, and will respond to five papers. Papers should be single-sided, numbered, and have reasonably standard margins. They should be carefully proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation. Citations should be in the format of the Chicago Manual of Style. I will offer feedback on the writing as well as on the content of each paper, and will especially look for improvement in the former.

The final grade will be determined approximately as follows:

• Quality of written papers - 30%
• Quality of presentations - 30%
• Quality of responses to partner's papers and presentations - 30%
• Growth in understanding and improvement in writing during the course - 10%

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