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Show SUSG prosonto clncsos on TU lie Broadcasting System, the (PBS) than any other college col-lege or university in the nation. Dr. Carl Sagan, the famed Pulitzer Prize winning space scientist who has helped to populai .ze science, will be 'teaching' a class at SUSC beginning Sept. 29. This, is only a partial truth. For Sagan is the writerhost writ-erhost of the highly successful suc-cessful PBS - TV series called "Cosmos" around which SUSC is offering an in home, three credit hour college telecourse. "COSMOS" will be seen over KUED - Channel 7, beginning Tuesday, September Septem-ber 29, and each Tuesday thereafter, at 8:00 p.m. The program will be repeated each week on Sundays at 7:00 p.m. Some of the most spectacular spec-tacular and sophisticated special effects yet to hit the screen will be seen on this show. Sagan will conduct tele-course tele-course students through time and space to explore what he calls the deepest connections connec-tions of human beings with a vast and awesome universe In which we float like a grain of sand in the cosmic ocean. They will delve into black holes, hedgehop Martian canals, penetrate the rings of Saturn, and rocket through clusters of galaxies and a globular cluster of 100 million mil-lion suns. From no involvement what soever in educational TV, to being a national leader in less than six months Is exactly ex-actly what SUSC has done. Six months ago SUSC did not offer one college level TV course; this fall the college col-lege will grand credit for more courses from the Pub - DR. CARL SAGAN Educational TV has come a long way from its early days when it was just a camera brought into a classroom class-room as the professor lectured. lec-tured. These courses are professionally produced programs which Avould fit well into prime time, with many on -location scenes and Interviews with prominent people. The courses are no easier easi-er than on -campus ones, just more convenient. The. highly successful series "COSMOS" and the one on Shakespearean plays, were naturals for our area. In addition to these, tele-courses tele-courses include: 'American 'Ameri-can Government Survey,'; 'The American Story'; Contemporary Con-temporary Health Issues'; 'Humanities Through the Arts'; Interaction'; 'It's Everybody's Business. The courses will fulfill general education requirements require-ments and course credit will be transferable to other colleges col-leges In Utah. Course broadcasts begin ' September 29. For more information . call 662-1897, toll free. |