The X-Lab: A Cross-Disciplinary STEM Laboratory Program Targeted to Lower-Division Pre-Health Majors
Presentation Type
Poster Session
Location
Burnett Honors College
Start Date
14-10-2011 5:30 PM
End Date
14-10-2011 7:00 PM
Description/Abstract
Bioscience research is increasingly interdisciplinary and quantitative, spanning the STEM disciplines. However, lower-division science courses at major research universities are typically taught by separate departments with little or no coordination between disciplines. Consequently, undergraduate students compartmentalize their STEM knowledge along traditional disciplinary lines despite our protestation that modern research is cross-disciplinary. As part of the HHMIsupported Science for Life Program, we are developing the CrossDisciplinary Science Laboratory (“X-Laboratory”) program, a threesemester, six-credit series of introductory laboratory courses designed to train first- and second-year students in fundamental and advanced bioscience research techniques integrated with inquirybased, cross-disciplinary instruction in foundation STEM concepts.
The X-Lab: A Cross-Disciplinary STEM Laboratory Program Targeted to Lower-Division Pre-Health Majors
Burnett Honors College
Bioscience research is increasingly interdisciplinary and quantitative, spanning the STEM disciplines. However, lower-division science courses at major research universities are typically taught by separate departments with little or no coordination between disciplines. Consequently, undergraduate students compartmentalize their STEM knowledge along traditional disciplinary lines despite our protestation that modern research is cross-disciplinary. As part of the HHMIsupported Science for Life Program, we are developing the CrossDisciplinary Science Laboratory (“X-Laboratory”) program, a threesemester, six-credit series of introductory laboratory courses designed to train first- and second-year students in fundamental and advanced bioscience research techniques integrated with inquirybased, cross-disciplinary instruction in foundation STEM concepts.