Transforming the Biology Curriculum Using Research-based Experimental Systems

生物科学（61）生物、化学和环境科学系2005年的转型计划正在影响克里斯托弗纽波特大学（CNU）的整个四年制生物课程。由Research Link 2000开发的基于研究的实验系统（RBES）正在形成这种转变的支柱，提供快速生长的植物和生物信息动物，可以以引人入胜的，调查性的，开放式的形式探索讲座中学到的概念。海葵和威斯康星州快速植物RBES是将引入的初始系统。目前正在调查其他的区域局，并将其作为该项目的一个持续方面。转变始于普通生物学实验室课程，每年有700多名专业和非专业学生参加，让学生从第一学期开始就参与科学过程。它通过生物课程的每个级别逐步移动，直到所有四个本科年的课程都改变了，独立的研究机会也变了，而且很容易追求。与课程改革同时进行的是培养渴望大学生涯的博士生。这些候选人，每年从区域博士课程中选出六名，并授予巴塞洛缪·戈斯诺德指导，正在指导使用RBES，并指导他们成为令人兴奋和富有成效的大学教师。2005年转型的教训正在扩大到区域大学生物系和当地初中和高中生物教师在一系列密集的讲习班。

Biological Sciences (61)The Transformation 2005 Program of the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Enviromnental Science is impacting the entire four-year biology curriculum at Christopher Newport University (CNU). Research-based experimental systems (RBES) developed by Research Link 2000 are forming the backbone of this transformation, providing fast-growing plants and biologically informative animals with which the concepts learned in lecture can be explored in an engaging, investigative, open-ended format. The sea anemone and Wisconsin Fast Plant RBES are the initial systems that will be introduced. Additional RBES are being investigated and incorporated as an ongoing aspect of the project. The transformation begins with the general biology lab course that is taken by over 700 majors and nonmajors each year, engaging students in the process of science from their first semester. It moves in steps through each level in the biology curriculum until courses in all four undergraduate years are changed and independent research opportunities are varied and readily pursued. Simultaneous with the transformation of the curriculum is the training of doctoral candidates who aspire to university careers. These candidates, six selected from regional doctoral programs each year and awarded Bartholomew Gosnold Instructorships, are being mentored in the use of RBES and guided in becoming exciting and productive college faculty. The lessons of Transformation 2005 are being extended to regional college biology faculty and to local middle and high school biology teachers in a series of intensive workshops.