Introductory Course on the Geology and Development of ModernAfrica

一门关于非洲地质学的入门课程正在开课。这门新课程的目标是：1)吸引黑人学生选修地质学，并鼓励他们主修地质学；2)为所有学生提供一个视角，让他们了解一个地区的地质演化如何对历史、文化、经济和社会问题产生根本性影响；3)为非理科生和未来的地质学专业学生提供一门严谨、实用的科学课程，让学生真正“学地质学”。这门新课程，“现代非洲的地质与发展”，将成为地质学和非洲研究专业的一部分。选修这门课程的学生将不仅仅学习有关非洲地质的事实。本课程将被设计为一门实验课程，让未来的地质学专业学生和非理科专业学生都能获得严谨的科学实践经验，并有机会创造性地思考现代非洲历史和发展中事件和趋势的潜在地质背景。这门课程最多可招收50人。1994年夏季将有几名黑人和白人学生参加设计课程，该课程将于1994年秋季学期首次开设。帮助开发这门课程的学生将在开设这门课程的第一年担任助教和导师，这门课程的目标之一将是培养一批受过良好训练并对地质学感兴趣的黑人学生。该课程将在1995年春季和夏季进行评价和修订，并在1995年秋季再次开课。

9354373 Tewksbury An introductory course on the geology of Africa is being developed. The goals of this new course are 1) to attract black students to take geology and to encourage them to major in geology, 2) to provide all students in the course with a perspective on how the geologic evolution of a region has a fundamental influence on historical, cultural, economic, and social issues, and 3) to provide both non-science students and prospective geology majors with a rigorous, hands-on science course in which students really "do geology". This new course, "The Geology and Development of Modern Africa", will be part of both a major in geology and a major in Africana Studies. Students who take this course will not simply learn facts about the geology of Africa. The course will be designed as a lab course to give prospective geology majors and non-science majors alike a rigorous, hands-on experience in science and an opportunity to think creatively about the underlying geologic context for events and trends in the history and development of modem Africa. The course will be designed to have a maximum enrollment of 50. A group of several students, both black and white, will participate during the summer of 1994 in designing the course, which will be offered for the first time during fall semester 1994. Students who helped develop the course will serve as teaching assistants and tutors during the first year that the course is taught, and one of the goals of the course will be to develop a nucleus of black students who are well-trained and interested in geology. The course will be evaluated and revised during spring and summer 1995 and offered again in the fall of 1995.