Word: wald
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George Wald's imaginative and challenging proposal for a unified introductory courses in biology means both the final rejection of much of the Bruner report and the opening of a new approach to teaching elementary science courses...
Because of this, Wald's course has great significance for both the General Education program and for the teaching of all introductory science courses. One of the fundamental these of the original General Education program and the Bruner report, that a course for concentrators was not General Education, will apparently be supplanted in biology as it has been in geology...
Instead of adopting a General Education course for an introductory offering, however, as the geology department has done with Nat Sci 10, Wald has started out by attempting a genuine synthesis. He is proposing a General Education course, not a biology course, to fill the General Education requirement...
...real question is whether his idea is intrinsically limited to biology, and, more specfically, to biology taught by George Wald. It is no secret that the General Education Committee would be reluctant to accept the course Wald has put forth if Wald himself were not teaching...
...course, brought a fresh outlook to the program, and, apparently as a result of either the report or pleas by members of the Committee, several prominent natural scientists have become interested in Nat Sci--Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, is teaching half of Nat Sci 2, and George Wald, professor of Bio-chemistry, will teach a lower level course next year. Nevertheless, it is clear that prominent scientists can give time to the program only at considerable personal sacrifice, and it may be unduly optimistic to expect that the present improvement will persist...