Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate.
This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe's rate of expansion, and measuring radiation left over from the Big Bang, the so-called cosmic microwave background..
Your qualification should be in a physics-, mathematics- or astronomy-based subject, or a subject with significant mathematical or physical content, and include modules in calculus, differential equations, mechanics, electrodynamics and quantum mechanics..
This course treats modern observational cosmology in some detail, including the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, galaxies and related phenomena at high redshift, and cosmic structure formation
There are no prerequisites for this course, but permission of the instructor is required
Today the best known version of cosmology is the Big Bang Theory
It’s the idea that all matter that we see today came from one single event that expanded and created the universe
In ancient China religion and cosmology were not separated
In this Introduction to Cosmology course, we look at some of the most interesting concepts about the universe, starting with its origins, the discovery of the ancient Greeks, and all the way to the modern day cosmology and astronomical revolutions
