Languaging about Language in an Interdisciplinary Writing-Intensive Course

It’s About the Science: Students Writing and Thinking About Data In a Scientific Writing Course

Writing and Physics: an Interdisciplinary Approach

1 P. Kelly Joyner, American University, Department of Literature, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016 [email protected] 2 Teresa L. Larkin, American University, Department of Physics, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016 [email protected] Abstract --During the Fall 2000 and Fall 2001 semesters, a joint study was undertaken between the Physics and Literature Depart...

A writing intensive introductory course for RN to BSN students.

This article describes learning strategies used with RN to BSN students in their 1st nursing course to successfully learn how to write formal papers using the American Psychological Association (APA) format. This 1st nursing course, a writing intensive, requires 4 short papers with self, peer, and teacher critiques and opportunities to rewrite. Students learn the style of professional nursing d...

Creating an interdisciplinary introductory chemistry course without time-intensive curriculum changes.

C utting edge scientific research increasingly occurs at the interface of disciplines, and equipping students to recognize interdisciplinary connections is essential for preparing the next generation of researchers, health workers, and policymakers to solve the toughest scientific problems (1, 2). Accordingly, new recommendations for premedical curricula issued by the American Association of Me...

Hardware/Software Codesign - introducing an interdisciplinary course

In 1997 we introduced a new fourth year/graduate course in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria entitled “VLSI Design, CAD and Hardware/Software Codesign” under the rubric of “Special Topics”, where generic topics courses are the normal way that professors here inaugurate courses based on recent development in our research. The course was subscribed by students from ...