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...degree programs. It calls for a major reorganization and renewal of our efforts in those domains. The Committee on Science and Technology has recommended a new set of introductory courses in the natural and applied sciences, the first fruit of which debuted this autumn, to considerable praise: Life Sciences 1a and 1b. The Committee on Advising and Counseling addresses, in the most comprehensive report this Faculty has ever produced on the topic, our severe deficiencies in academic advising and suggests multiple paths to improvement, in the knowledge that greater freedom of choice only underscores the need for strong mentoring...
Life Sciences 1a, which is taught by four full-time faculty members, requires a much greater expenditure of faculty time than other courses with enrollments in the hundreds, such as English 124g, “Shakespearean Genres,” Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” and Chemistry 17, “Principles of Organic Chemistry.” Each had enrollments of at least 250 students and were taught by a single Faculty member...
There were 466 undergraduates enrolled in Life Sciences 1a this fall...
...meeting of the full Faculty that the FAS’s deficit could rise to more than $100 million per year by 2010, some have expressed concern that it might not be feasible to offer many more team-taught introductory courses with significant instructional support, such as Life Sciences 1a...
Nearly 500 students broke interdisciplinary ground this semester as part of Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.”The course, which ran for the first time this fall and is the first of its kind at any university, was months in the making and presents biology and chemistry in the context of modern medical applications. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, one of the class’s four professors, writes in an e-mail that he hopes...