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...would have almost filled the lecture hall’s nearly 500 seats. But while other perennially popular Core classes—like Social Analysis 10 and Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—have kept their enrollments steadily in the hundreds for years, Cosmic Connections has dwindled to just 72 students this semester...
After earning a 4.1 overall score (out of five) on the Committee of Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide and just a 2.2 for difficulty—well below the mean that semester—from the 149 students enrolled in Cosmic Connections in 2003, the course’s enrollment jumped...
...Professor of Astronomy Lars E. Hernquist developed and launched Cosmic Connections for a small crowd of 57. He designed the course as an introductory astronomy class for students with little background in the field...
After his third time teaching Cosmic Connections, Hernquist became chair of the Astronomy Department and stopped teaching the course...
According to Sarah E. Wick ’10—who is currently enrolled in Cosmic Connections—the course’s rumored difficulty discouraged some students looking for an easier way to complete their Core requirement...