Development of a New Undergraduate Science Service Course to Attract Hispanic Students to Science: Geography, Resources, and Environment of Hispanic America

我们正在设计一门新的低年级理科课程，名为《西班牙美洲地理、资源和环境》。本课程改编自一门名为《现代非洲的地质学与发展》的课程，该课程于1994年由汉密尔顿学院的芭芭拉·图克斯伯里在CCLI的支持下开发。她的课程旨在吸引非裔美国学生学习科学，并提高其他学生的科学意识。我们的适应是试图吸引西班牙裔学生进入科学和地球科学专业。本课程旨在通过若干例子探讨墨西哥、中美洲、南美洲和加勒比地区的自然环境如何影响拉丁美洲的史前、历史、文化和经济。该材料以六个模块的形式呈现，强调自然环境在决定文化、发展和历史方面所起的作用。该课程的设计主要是为了吸引西班牙裔学生学习科学，但也用于向非西班牙裔学生教授与拉丁美洲有关的科学问题，并且满足UTD本科生9小时科学要求中的3小时。这门课程是写作密集型课程，要求学生与拉丁美洲大学的记者合作完成一个研究项目。在此课程开发期间，入学人数限制为30名学生。在此奖助金期间，课程将被开发、教授、评估、修改、再教授、再修改。评估工作由UTD科学教育系的教员监督。

Geology (42) We are designing a new lower-division science course, entitled Geography, Resources, and Environment of Hispanic America. This course is being adapted from a course entitled Geology & Development of Modern Africa developed in 1994 with CCLI support by Barbara Tewksbury at Hamilton College. Her course was designed to attract African-American students to science and increase the awareness of other students. Our adaptation is trying to attract Hispanic students into science and geoscience majors. The course is being designed as an interdisciplinary exploration of several examples of how the physical environments of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean have influenced the prehistory, history, culture, and economy of Latin America. This material is being presented as a series of six modules that stress the role that the physical environment plays in determining culture, development, and history. The course is being designed primarily to attract Hispanic students to science and but is also serving to teach non-Hispanic students about scientific issues related to Latin America, and is satisfying 3 of the 9 hour science requirement for UTD undergraduates. The course is writing intensive and is requiring the student topartner with correspondents in Latin American universities in a research project. Enrollment is being limited to 30 students during the time that course development is supported by this grant. The course is being developed, taught, evaluated, revised, taught again, and revised again during this grant period. Evaluations are being supervised by faculty from the UTD Department of Science Education.