Which is more difficult astronomy or physical science?

Astronomy IS a lot of math. It is basically physics applied to the cosmos.
That is why nowadays, the name is Astrophysics.

ok, that is very helpful. I would be taking a survey of astronomy which is very basic I think, so do you think your answers applies to this too.

Thanks again!

I don’t think an introductory class would involve much math.

Can you get your hands on the textbooks? Those could give you an idea of which appeals most to you.

I will try to look at the textbooks, it does involve a lab session

What is your degree? Maybe one applies to your degree, your understanding of life or will be enjoyable in your future discussions of life..? Are you religious?

I’m a graphic designer. I am catholic, and I am in a very conservative Christian college. The whole town is very conservative. I don’t necessarily like talking about religion just because I contradict what people say most of the time but it’s something to consider.

Make sure that the Astronomy survey course has a lot of observational components. Sitting in a lecture hall, listening to some guy speak and show slides and only reading the textbook defeats the purpose.

Particularly given your interest in graphic design, you will want to go outside, look up, watch the changes of stars, planets, the sun and moon during the course of 24 hours, a week, a month and a year. You want the chance to look through a telescope also, see meteors, possibly an eclipse and a comet.

Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

It’s hard to guess, but my impression from the title “physical science” is that it’ll be a general overview type class. Physical science is a very general term and will probably just touch the basics of many categories (physics, chemistry, meteorology, etc.) Astronomy can be quite complicated, even at a basic level.

Unless you have a really great instructor, astronomy, even a survey class, can involve higher mathematics. My daughter’s taken two years of astronomy, and they both involved a fair amount of math. This was at a community college.

Go by the book store and look at the texts, and see if you can find the syllibi for this year’s classes online. That should give you an idea of what the class will be like.

If you can look over the syllabus for each class, it would help find out how much math is going to be involved and how much is going to be general information. I’m sort of bending toward what @Mariah mentioned, but there really is no way of knowing what the content of a course is just by it’s name.