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New Interdisciplinary Science Course for First-Year Faculty of Science Students: Overview and Preliminary Results from the Pilot

Abstract

Transitioning to university can be a daunting endeavour, with student success dependent on a myriad of effects (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Understanding how to navigate university systems, who to meet, how to get help, how to study, and what goals to set can be hard to grasp (Valle et al., 2003). We provide an overview of the new interdisciplinary foundations course, which piloted in fall 2014, for first-year Faculty of Science students at …

Authors

Cockcroft R; Symons SL; Goff L; Knorr K; Robinson SJ; van Wersch G; Charney D; Farquharson M

Journal

Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, Vol. 9, , pp. 43–68

Publisher

University of Windsor Leddy Library

DOI

10.22329/celt.v9i0.4431

ISSN

2368-4526

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