UW-Green Bay offers online space history course with renowned author
GREEN BAY — An internationally known space expert will help teach the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay online graduate course for educators, the History of Spaceflight.
The course is being co-taught by renowned science journalist, author and speaker Andrew Chaikin, and Executive Director of Space Education Initiatives Jason Marcks.
The History of Spaceflight will take students on an historical journey of the people and technology involved in the first half-century of space exploration. The online course will begin with Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite, and continue on through the construction of the International Space Station, the world’s first long-term habitat in orbit. There will be special emphasis on NASA’s Apollo program and the content of the book, Man on the Moon, written by course co-instructor Andrew Chaikin.
A graduate of Brown University, Chaikin served on the Viking missions to Mars at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and was a researcher at the Smithsonian’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies before becoming a science journalist in 1980. He has since written numerous books and articles about space and space travel.
Marcks is a former high school Earth and space science teacher who is now an adjunct instructor at UW-Green Bay. His company, Space Education Initiatives, is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to engaging students in science, math and technology by using the excitement of space exploration.
The course meets Wisconsin Educator Standards 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10.
Tuition for this three graduate credit online course is $1,118 for in-state, out-of-state and international students.
Registration is due by Sept. 10.
For more information contact the UW-Green Bay Education Outreach Office at (800) 621-2313 or via e-mail at educationoutreach@uwgb.edu.
For more specific course information, click here.
• For more information on Marcks and Space Education Initiatives see: http://www.spaceed.org/
• For more information about Andrew Chaikin see: http://www.andrewchaikin.com/
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