Biology in a Human Context: A New Course for Non-Science Majors

人类背景下的生物学：非科学专业的新课程

• 批准号: 9555023
• 负责人: Carl Huether
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9555023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biology; Human; Context; New; Course

It is increasingly obvious that today's citizens must be biologically literate to make informed decisions affecting us individually and collectively. Too often they are not. The aim of our project is to address this challenge by improving undergraduate biology education for non-science majors in two-year and four-year colleges. This will first be effected in our own two and four year colleges, and then expanded to encourage other colleges and universities by sharing what we have learned and accomplished. The specific goal is to create, fully develop, and implement a new and innovative year long introductory biology course for non-science majors entitled: Biology in a Human Context. To meet this goal, an already existing team of faculty from all six academic units at the University of Cincinnati which offer biology courses are working with faculty and staff from the University Center for Academic Technologies, the College of Education, the Office of Writing Across the Curriculum, and the General Education Council. The course will be taught by the biology faculty in their respective units, and will fulfill both the Collegiate and General Education natural science requirements. Included are four, two-year and two, four-year colleges involving over 1,000 undergraduates annually, including many pre-service teachers who are preparing to teach grades K-8. Pre-service secondary teachers who are also biology majors will act as instructional assistants. The new course will be a significant departure in both content and pedagogy from the existing traditional one, which it will eventually replace if determined to be successful through careful evaluation.

越来越明显的是，今天的公民必须具备生物学知识，才能做出影响我们个人和集体的明智决定。但事实往往并非如此。我们项目的目的是通过改善两年制和四年制大学非科学专业的本科生物学教育来应对这一挑战。这将首先在我们自己的两年制和四年制学院实施，然后扩大到其他学院和大学，分享我们的学习和成就。具体目标是为非科学专业学生创建、全面发展和实施一门新的、创新的一年制生物学导论课程：人类背景下的生物学。为了实现这一目标，辛辛那提大学提供生物学课程的所有六个学术单位的现有教师团队正在与来自大学学术技术中心、教育学院、课程写作办公室和普通教育委员会的教职员工合作。该课程将由各自单位的生物系教授，并将满足学院和通识教育自然科学的要求。包括四年制、两年制和二年制大学，每年有1000多名本科生，其中包括许多准备教K-8年级的职前教师。同时也是生物专业的职前中学教师将担任教学助理。新课程将在内容和教学方法上与现有的传统课程有很大的不同，如果经过仔细的评估确定成功，它将最终取代传统课程。