| Week | Lecture focus | Activity | Assessment timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lecture 01: The Radio Sky: Emission Mechanisms and Observables | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 2 | Lecture 02: Antennas, Feed Systems, and Receiver Chains | Lab 01 and PS 01 | Submit by end of paired unit |
| 3 | Lecture 03: Sensitivity and the Radiometer Equation | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 4 | Lecture 04: Beam Convolution, Brightness Temperature, and Angular Scale | Lab 02 and PS 02 | Submit by end of paired unit |
| 5 | Lecture 05: Interferometry: Coherence and Complex Visibility | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 6 | Lecture 06: Aperture Synthesis and Image Formation | Lab 03 and PS 03 | Submit by end of paired unit |
| 7 | Lecture 07: Calibration I: Complex Gains and Bandpass | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 8 | Lecture 08: Calibration II: Error Budgets and Imaging Systematics | Lab 04 and PS 04 | Submit by end of paired unit |
| 9 | Lecture 09: Spectral-Line Observing and Doppler Inference | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 10 | Lecture 10: The 21-cm Hyperfine Line and H I Column Density | Lab 05 and PS 05 | Submit by end of paired unit |
| 11 | Lecture 11: Pulsars: Dispersion, Scattering, and Precision Timing | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 12 | Lecture 12: Radio Transients, Pulsar Surveys, and Selection Functions | Lab 06 and PS 06 | Submit by end of paired unit |
| 13 | Lecture 13: Galactic H I: Rotation, Geometry, and Mapping | Preparation; build model | No new assessment due |
| 14 | Lecture 14: Radio Surveys: Catalogs, Confusion, and Reproducible Analysis | Lab 07 and PS 07 | Submit by end of paired unit |
Each lab and problem set follows the second lecture in its thematic pair. That placement ensures students have the required instrument and physical context before quantitative analysis.