That sounds very interesting. Would love to sit in on the lectures.
I took an Astronomy class in college back in the 80's... Late in the quarter, the professor gave a lecture on "extraterrestrial life". Unfortunately, I missed it. Turns out, though, that at the time, he was considered one of the world's foremost experts on extraterrestrial life... D'OH!
This sounds exactly like a course I took near 10 years ago for credits in University.
Interesting course but not what I thought it was going to be. I was hoping more war waging angry insectoid talks and it was more maybe there's bacteria on some distant planet lectures.