The UCLA Science Challenge

加州大学洛杉矶分校科学挑战赛

• 批准号: 9455570
• 负责人: Orville Chapman
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-04-01 至 1997-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9455570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UCLA; Science; Challenge

9455570 Chapman The UCLA Science Challenge began in 1991 as a five-year program with a mission to bring innovative, research-level instruction to undergraduates, particularly lower division students in order to retain lower-division science majors, recruit new science majors, attract more minority students to science, and to improve student attitudes toward science. The goal is to infuse every lower division course in the physical sciences with new material and to create new interdisciplinary courses that reflect the breadth and overlap of the physical and life science disciplines. As we enter the fourth year of the program, we are on target to meet our charge. During the first half of the project, we primarily attacked both the largest general education classes in the division, the Astronomy and Atmospheric Science courses, which collectively enroll 8000 non-science majors each year, and also courses for the physical science majors in Chemistry and Physics. Our major focus now will be on the Physics course for Life Science majors. Our minor focus, for the enormous General Chemistry course that all Life Science and Physical Science majors must take, will concentrate on modules that allow students to visualize 3-dimensional molecular and crystalline structures. We will keep a small presence in the Earth and Space Science department, in Astronomy, and in Atmospheric Science in order to maintain the coherence of the renovation of the Physical Sciences at UCLA and to fulfill our commitment to complete the modules which these departments have begun.

9455570查普曼加州大学洛杉矶分校科学挑战赛始于1991年，是一项为期五年的计划，旨在为本科生，特别是低年级学生提供创新的研究水平的指导，以留住低年级的科学专业，招收新的科学专业，吸引更多的少数族裔学生学习科学，并改善学生对科学的态度。其目标是为每一门较低级别的自然科学课程注入新的材料，并创建新的跨学科课程，以反映物理学科和生命科学学科的广度和重叠。随着我们进入该计划的第四个年头，我们正在按目标完成我们的任务。在项目的前半部分，我们主要攻击了师里规模最大的通识教育课程--每年总共招收8000名非理科专业的天文学和大气科学课程，以及物理专业的化学和物理课程。我们现在的主要关注点是生命科学专业的物理课程。我们的辅修重点是，所有生命科学和物理科学专业的学生都必须选修的庞大的普通化学课程，将集中在允许学生可视化三维分子和晶体结构的模块上。我们将在地球和空间科学系、天文学和大气科学系保持少量存在，以保持加州大学洛杉矶分校物理科学创新的一致性，并履行我们完成这些系已经开始的模块的承诺。