Over that last six years, our institution has developed a First-Year Experience that intentionally uses a transdisciplinary “place-based” approach that allows students of all interests to see the broader world through a variety of lenses.  Both my large plenary presentations and my small section explore how chemistry of all types—geochemistry, industrial chemistry, food chemistry—appear in the “real world” and life itself.  The course begins with an intensive immersion period to explore possible project ideas and then moves into the chosen multi-week research project.  The students in the course, are almost always future “non-science majors” that naturally learn scientific observation, scientific literacy, and a variety never-noticed connections of chemistry and society.  <br/> <br/>

Course-based undergraduate research experiences for non-majors as part of the transition to college

2019 Spring National Meeting

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