Since I am a
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, most of what I teach is either chemistry
or biochemistry courses. They include Honors Chemistry, General Chemistry,
General Biochemistry I, General Biochemistry II, and Introduction to Biochemistry.
For many years I’ve also taught an interdisciplinary course called
Science, Technology and Society, in which I integrate the ethical issues
of science
into various topics such as the Scientific Enterprise, the New Biotechnologies,
Global Change, The New Space Frontier, AIDS, etc. Many science teachers
in our area have taken this course over the years with me. It was 1984
when I
first taught the class.
I have also offered two graduate level classes: Technology in Chemistry
Education and Technology in Biochemistry Education. I focused both of these
courses on learning to teach college level chemistry or biochemistry while
utilizing technology. The graduate students used my undergraduate classroom
that I was teaching as a way to learn about teaching chemistry and biochemistry
to undergraduates.
Since 2002 and continuing until present, I utilize the Web site tool, Blackboard,
for all of my classes. I was one
of the first groups of faculty in 1998 to learn how to utilize technology
for teaching university classes. These sites are password protected, but
you can visit a site that Ajda Kahveci originally set up for me with the
Power Point presentation
or links to Web sites that my students in Introduction
to Biochemistry developed
in our class in 2002. It is an integrated lecture-laboratory course, and I emphasize
the connections between the two aspects within our classroom-laboratory
setting.
Since 2004, I have taught a course twice, called Women and Science. This course is a core topics course
for the Women's Studies
Department. It is significantly different from previous courses that I have
taught because it is not primarily a science course, but rather, it is an
interactive course studying the history of women in science and the problems
women scientists face today.