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I don't recommend taking astronomy with Dr. Bohuski, not because he is not a nice guy or incompetent in his subject area, just because of how the content is presented. Most of the time we sat in class was wasted looking at slide after slide on the overhead projector, almost none of which was truly relevant to the content we were supposed to be memorizing for the tests. Note that I say memorizing, not learning. If you go to the PASS review session the week before the test, it is easy to get an A. Read the sections noted in the reading guide; it's actually easier to do that than sit through class. Attendance policy is nonexistent and most people skipped about all year. I didn't, just because I was paying for the class and there was the occasional interesting comment. However, if you can take the course in an honors section, I think that would be a lot more beneficial. I have heard it was not any more difficult, just more interesting with a smaller class size and more engaging projects. I don't know about you, but plotting stars as dots on paper doesn't exactly intrigue me. Going out for observations and applying content covered in class, though, is a different story. The best part of the class was going to the planetarium, where you could actually see something in 3-D. The diagrams he scribbled on the board may as well have been written in hieroglyphics for all the sense they made to me. Dr. Bohuski is very energetic and enthusiastic about the subject, but often to the point that he was spastic and completely unorganized and scattered. He was fun, but I left each class wondering why I had even bothered showing up. The course is easy, and adequate if you're just looking to fulfill general ed, but rather unsatisfying if you are trying to understand and enjoy astronomy.
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