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Even Losick, the biology professor, describes the challenges of engaging students in “cookbook” labs that do not allow them to have hands-on experiences in the sciences.
“We went from three life sciences concentrations to, at this point, around eight,” Lue says. “We want to create smaller experiences for students, to allow them to focus on their interests.”
“I felt like no one really cared about actually learning—they were just focused on beating everyone else and were worried about what the curve was going to be,” Younger says of her experience in Life Sciences 1b last spring. ?...
While the professors acknowledge that the attrition in their concentrations is problematic, they note that students switch away from the sciences across the country and have been doing so for years.
Lue adds that while the professors want students to study their disciplines, their introductory courses also act as a “gateway” to science that round out the educations of those who eventually focus on a discipline in the social sciences or humanities.