Scientific Connections: Chemistry of Art was introduced in the Spring of 2015 at Ouachita Baptist University (OBU), a private liberal arts undergraduate institution with approximately 1500 students. The new course was developed as part of the university-wide renovation of the CORE curriculum, which included replacing the previous non-science majors’ sequence of two traditional science classes and labs with Scientific Inquiry (3 hours lecture, 2 hours lab) and Scientific Connections (3 hours lecture). Scientific Inquiry is designed to help non-science majors learn to ask questions, evaluate data, and reach their own conclusions about real-world issues in science. Scientific Connections allows students to take what they learned from Inquiry and apply it to an interdisciplinary topic of interest to the instructor (and hopefully also to the students).<br/><br/>Chemistry of Art has been offered for several semesters at OBU, allowing for the evaluation of the course’s efficacy at meeting student-learning outcomes in 2019. This information helped the author redesign and reorganize the course material in the hopes of increasing student engagement and understanding of the material. The arc of the course was changed to allow more time for the discussion of pigments and dyes early in the semester, and new lab experiences were added to give students the opportunity to develop their own artworks using the materials discussed in class. Case studies, hands-on laboratories, student projects and travel to a local museum all work together to make this interdisciplinary class a memorable experience for the students and the instructor.<br/><br/>

Chemistry of art: Redesigning a non-majors science course for increased student engagement

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