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...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...
...wanted a course that would give students an introduction to the basic concepts of astronomy but to connect it to other disciplines,” Hernquist says...
...size of the course more than doubled each time Hernquist repeated the course, in 2003 and 2004. By the fall of 2004, the course’s enrollment had risen above 400; it was that year’s largest science core...
After his third time teaching Cosmic Connections, Hernquist became chair of the Astronomy Department and stopped teaching the course...
...found that teaching a big core class like that was time consuming, and with all my duties I wasn’t able to devote as much concentration as I would have liked,” Hernquist says...