Thank you.

Thank you

So really any course should just be traditional physics with smattering of other stuff. Indigenous sciences is physics. They missed the point of the courses… likely on purpose.

Why? The feedback was simply “insufficient physics”. When pressed, they said that the course should be “Something like 75-80% of the course was a ballpark figure, with the remainder devoted to differing worldviews, societal impacts, historical contexts, etc.”.

These courses would be for a breadth of students in different programs to learn about space and astronomy in courses that are grossly rare in universities. The Physics Dept officially rejected them.

But, so far, there has not been interest from leadership. There is nothing in it them.

and a grad course on Space Environmentalism motivated by the disgusting growth of space commercialism and its impact on Space and on Earth.

a course on astrobiology to reflect how we understand life in the Galaxy and how we learn about this from the world around us; Science Communications inspired by what I see both globally and locally as non-compassionate communication about science, nature and climate;

I have spent the past few years trying to create new courses that would bring together Indigenous methods science such as Indigenous Astronomies and worldviews; a course on Outer Space and Society inspired by work in Australia and the fact there is a ‘spaceport’ only a few hours from my university;

One of the motivations for starting this project is a lack of regulation for lighting in the province. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...