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Direct linkTrain, Tonya Laakko; Gammon, David E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2012
Science Without Borders is a unique interdisciplinary science course that uses group and active-learning strategies and is in high demand among nonscience majors at a masters-level university. Registrar data showed that nonscience majors were far more likely to choose this course compared with other, discipline-based science courses. In an…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Learning Strategies, Educational Change, Science Curriculum
Smith, Frank A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
A narrative in the form of a courtroom trial is used to compare evidence on the nature of light as part of an introductory college physics course. Prosecuting and defense attorneys present evidence for and against competing wave and particle hypotheses for light behavior while students play the roles of jurors. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Physics, Light, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse
