last revised 6/20/12

Fall 2012
ASTRONOMY 207T
Extraterrestrial Life in the Galaxy:
A Sure Thing or a Snowball's Chance?


Instructor
Professor Karen B. Kwitter (kkwitter@williams.edu)
Office: 110 TPL
Office Hours: by appointment.
Phone: x2272

Text & Other Resources
The primary text for the course will be Life in the Universe, 3/e, by Bennett & Shostak (2012), 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. Submitted papers should be double-spaced, single-sided, numbered, and have reasonably standard margins. They should be carefully proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation, which will be factored into the grade. 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:

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