Introductory Course on the Geology and Development of ModernAfrica

现代非洲地质与发展入门课程

• 批准号: 9354373
• 负责人: Barbara Tewksbury
• 金额: $ 8.73万
• 依托单位: Hamilton College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-03-01 至 1997-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9354373&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Introductory; Course; Geology; Development; ModernAfrica

9354373 Tewksbury An introductory course on the geology of Africa is being developed. The goals of this new course are 1) to attract black students to take geology and to encourage them to major in geology, 2) to provide all students in the course with a perspective on how the geologic evolution of a region has a fundamental influence on historical, cultural, economic, and social issues, and 3) to provide both non-science students and prospective geology majors with a rigorous, hands-on science course in which students really "do geology". This new course, "The Geology and Development of Modern Africa", will be part of both a major in geology and a major in Africana Studies. Students who take this course will not simply learn facts about the geology of Africa. The course will be designed as a lab course to give prospective geology majors and non-science majors alike a rigorous, hands-on experience in science and an opportunity to think creatively about the underlying geologic context for events and trends in the history and development of modem Africa. The course will be designed to have a maximum enrollment of 50. A group of several students, both black and white, will participate during the summer of 1994 in designing the course, which will be offered for the first time during fall semester 1994. Students who helped develop the course will serve as teaching assistants and tutors during the first year that the course is taught, and one of the goals of the course will be to develop a nucleus of black students who are well-trained and interested in geology. The course will be evaluated and revised during spring and summer 1995 and offered again in the fall of 1995.

9354373图克斯伯里正在编制非洲地质学入门课程。 这门新课程的目标是1）吸引黑人学生参加地质学，并鼓励他们主修地质学，2）为所有学生提供关于一个地区的地质演化如何对历史，文化，经济和社会问题产生根本影响的观点，以及3）为非理科学生和未来的地质学专业学生提供严格的，这是一门让学生们真正“做地质学”的动手科学课程。 这门新课程，“现代非洲的地质学与发展”，将是地质学和非洲研究专业的一部分。 谁采取这门课程的学生不会简单地了解有关非洲地质的事实。 该课程将被设计为实验室课程，为未来的地质专业和非科学专业的学生提供严格的科学实践经验，并有机会创造性地思考现代非洲历史和发展中的事件和趋势的潜在地质背景。 该课程将设计为最多招收50人。 1994年夏季将有几名黑人和白色学生参加课程的设计，该课程将于1994年秋季学期第一次开设。 帮助开发课程的学生将在课程教授的第一年担任助教和导师，课程的目标之一将是培养一批训练有素并对地质学感兴趣的黑人学生。 将在1995年春季和夏季评价和修订该课程，并在1995年秋季再次开办。