The Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNC Asheville) has replaced six of its one-credit hour upper-level discipline specific laboratories (physical chemistry I and II, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, instrumental analysis, inorganic chemistry) for two, two-credit hour interdisciplinary chemistry project laboratories (ICPLs). Our faculty team-teach the ICPLs and incorporate their individual and collaborative research projects into a semester long in-class research experience. Each ICPL is required to utilize knowledge from at least two chemistry subdisciplines and computational chemistry, have both an oral presentation and written component, and have the same student learning objectives regardless of project topic. The goals of this curricular change were to increase our students interdisciplinary problem-solving skills, improve their transition from lower-level laboratory courses into independent undergraduate research projects, allow for faculty to pilot potential research projects and generate preliminary data, and reduce our overall major credit hours. Since implementing the ICPLs in Fall 2016, these goals have been achieved.

Development and assessment of research based junior level interdisciplinary project laboratories at UNC Asheville

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