As a part of my thesis project (which will focus on the evolution of debris disks around young stars), I will be creating a new course at UCLA which could be used to satisfy a general education requirement for Astrobiology. The class currently in place (Astro 5 - Life in the Universe) was developed in part by my advisor (Ben Zuckerman) for non-majors to fulfill a quantitative reasoning requirement. I want to adapt the course material into a new debate-based course which will make use of the "Reacting to the Past" framework.
