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Campus Visitation Days
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| Tuesday, October 8 | ||
| Courses that may be visited before orientation meeting | ||
| 9:30-10:45am | Psychology and the Law | Valerie Hans Memorial 110 |
| This upper division course meets in a "wired" classroom. Students will be doing a group activity using the wireless laptops. | ||
| 12:30-1:45pm | Principles in Biology | Deborah Allen Gore 208 |
| This is a large general education biology class. Participants wanting to visit should meet the instructor in her office (209 McKinley Lab) at 11:30am for briefing. | ||
| 12:30-1:45pm | Topics in Infectious Disease | Jane Noble-Harvey Willard Hall 323 |
| This is a small upper-level course with peer tutors. | ||
| 12:30-1:45pm | Families and Children at Risk | Penny Deiner Memorial 123 |
| Welcome and Orientation | ||
| 2:00-4:00pm | Introduction to PBL. History of PBL at UD. Models of PBL in undergraduate courses. Innovations in PBL courses |
ITUE Leaders Pearson 105 |
| 4:00-5:00pm | Introduction of faculty with courses open
for visitation. Orientation to those courses. |
UD Faculty |
| 5:00pm- | Hors d'oeuvres and dinner with UD PBL faculty. | Blue & Gold Club |
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Wednesday, October 9 | |
| 8:00am-2:15pm | Several classroom visitation opportunities are concurrent with the afternoon plenary session, but are included as possibilities. | |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Student Panel | Pearson 105 |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Buffet Lunch | Pearson 105 |
| 1:30-2:30pm | Questions and Reflections | Pearson 105 |
| Classroom Visitations | ||
| 8:00-8:50am | Introductory Biology I | Linda Dion Memorial 110 |
| Four groups of 4-5 students will be collaborating on their first group exam. | ||
| 8:00-9:30am | Teaching Science in Middle Schools | Barbara Duch Pearson 105 |
| This is a small upper level course with faculty tutors. | ||
| 9:05-9:55am | Biochemical Evolution | Hal White Memorial 109 |
| A small class for seniors and graduate student majors. PBL format is used for all class meetings. | ||
| 10:10-11:00am | General Chemistry | Sue Groh Brown Lab 203 |
| Also available at 11:15am and 12:20pm. | ||
| 10:10-11:00am | Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing | Tracy DeLiberty Penny 005 |
| Small, senior level course meets in the new, state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS) teaching classroom. Student groups will be investigating satellite imagery. | ||
| 11:15am-12:05pm | Ethical Issues in Health Care | Paul Durbin Memorial 110 |
| 11:15am-12:05pm | Seminar in GIS | Tracy DeLiberty Penny 005 |
| Graduate level course meets in the new GIS teaching classroom. Students will be searching key GIS data web sites to download geospatial data for analysis in a geographic information system called ArcGIS. | ||
| 12:20-1:10pm | Communication and Management of Conflict | Beth Haslett Memorial 110 |
| 12:20-1:10pm | Black Holes and Cosmic Evolution | Harry Shipman Sharp Lab 130 |
| This large class has 130 students, most non-science majors. It will be meeting just after an exam to introduce a new topic: the properties of black holes. www.udel.edu/physics/phys145 | ||
| 1:25-2:15pm | Food For Thought | Cathy Davies Gore 208 |
| An introductory freshman level food science course for 65 students. The students are having their first pre-exam review. This will be in the form of a group competition. | ||
| 1:25-2:15pm | Food Concepts | Carolyn Manning Memorial 109 |
