  Cultural Astronomy is interdisciplinary connecting the arts, humanities,
social & physical sciences. Data collection methods and theories are used from
many disciplines and meld with methods and theories within cultural astronomy.
The burden on the student is that to do cultural astronomy research it is
necessary to be widely read within and across disciplines. I developed a series
of courses that divided cultural astronomy content into broad regions such as
Africa, North America, and the Pacific. The courses were structured to
accommodate students from all parts of the university, but had to have enough
mathematics and science to serve as a general science requirement. The majority
of the grade for the course lay with the final project, which included a
presentation and a written document. Thus, the course was designed to give the
students a foundation for doing this final project that had to be original
research. The students rarely opted to collect their own data, instead they
reanalyzed existing materials. The students learned critical thinking,
formulating hypotheses, and how to test their hypotheses, as well as how to
understand cultural astronomy data.
