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

地质学(42)我们正在设计一门新的低级科学课程，名为《拉美裔美国的地理、资源和环境》。本课程由汉密尔顿学院的芭芭拉·图克斯伯里在CCLI的支持下于1994年开发的一门名为《现代非洲的地质学与发展》的课程改编而成。她的课程旨在吸引非裔美国学生学习科学，并提高其他学生的意识。我们的适应正在努力吸引拉美裔学生进入科学和地球科学专业。这门课程是对墨西哥、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、文化和经济的几个例子的跨学科探索。该材料以六个模块的系列形式呈现，强调物理环境在决定文化、发展和历史中所起的作用。该课程的设计主要是为了吸引拉美裔学生学习科学，但也是为了向非拉美裔学生传授与拉丁美洲有关的科学问题，并满足加州大学德州分校本科生9小时科学要求中的3小时。这门课程是一门密集的写作课程，要求学生与拉丁美洲大学的记者一起进行研究项目。在此助学金支持课程发展期间，招生人数限制为30人。这门课程正在开发、教授、评估、修改、再教授、再修改，在此资助期间。评估由UTD科学教育部的教职员工监督。

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.