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Tips and Techniques for Integrating Student Research Throughout an Undergraduate Geology Curriculum
Department of Geology & Geophysics Seminar, Public Invited
| What | Teaching Graduate Student Open to the public STEM Faculty |
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2008-04-03 15:45
2008-04-03 17:00
2008-04-03 from 15:45 to 17:00 |
| Where | Room 101 Dudley Hughes Lecture Hall, Michel T Halbouty Geosciences Building |
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Presented by National Association of Geology Teachers 2008 Distinguished Lecturer and Professor Dr. Eric B. Grosfils (Geology Department, Pomona College):
Challenging undergraduate students to explore meaningful, challenging, real-world research (and research-like) problems is a terrific way to stimulate their interest in, and excitement about, learning science. In fact, when we don't get students engaged in such endeavors, we risk having them discover science as a stereotypical set of cookbook-style rules and processes which are complex, boring, seemingly pointless and often hard to learn! Drawing on the undergraduate curriculum at Pomona College as an illustration, the goal of this presentation -- part of the NAGT Distinguished Lecture program for 2007-2008 -- is to stimulate creative thinking, and subsequent conversation, about effective ways to integrate student research throughout an undergraduate-focused geoscience curriculum.