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Hands Off Introductory Biology

vlicata | January 30, 2012

A news story in ScienceNOW this week describes how City University of New York is planning to rearrange its "General Education" requirements so that non-majors who take science don't have to take lab courses anymore. Scientists at CUNY are, predictably, annoyed and upset. Even non-majors should get to muck around in lab with their own hands a bit before going off to whatever other majors and interests they have. Here at LSU we've been discussing almost the Exact Same Issue in the Honors College for the past few weeks and coming to the Exact Opposite Conclusion to CUNY. We are re-designing…

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