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Mini-course program in
biology doubles enrollment
By APRIL APPERSON
Of the Emerald
This year’s “mini course”
undergraduate program in the
biology department has doubled
last year’s enrollment, according
to Gordon Murphy, an ad
ministrative assistant in the
department.
me mini-courses, or singie
topic courses as Murphy prefers
to call them, were created as an
alternative to the old un
dergraduate general biology and
honors sequences. Under the new
program, each quarter of Biology
101 through 107 covers a single,
different topic A student taking
Biology 102 in the fall would take
a different course than a student
taking Biology 102 in the winter
or spring, "Hiis applies to all
seven courses <101 through 107),
so theoretically, the department
is offering a program of 21
courses. A few hides appear in
the schedule, however, for
various reasons, so the actual
number of courses offered is
more like 18, Also, the depart
ment discourages students from
taking any one course, such as
Biology 106, more than one
quarter. Although the course
material may be different in
spring and winter quarters, the
number designation remains the
same, and having Biology 106
appear two or three times on a
student’s transcript can cause
misunderstanding and trouble,
said Murphy.
The program, Murphy stated,
is aimed at the student not
majoring in biology; it is in
tended "specifically for those
people who are science shy,” for
those who simply want to fulfill a
science requirement. It is a
layman’s view of science, he
said, “the exciting parts, the
interesting parts.”
The advantages of the new
program, he said, are that the
students know what they are
getting into — the titles of the
courses are quite specific — and
the possibility of the students
thinking that the courses are in
any sequence is reduced.
These were two major com
plaints with the old program, he
said. Even though the courses in
the old program were no in
sequence, the students often were
afraid to take a spring term
course without having taken the
earlier courses, Murphy ex
plained. Under the new program,
the students don't worry about
this, he said. By encouraging the
students to vary the courses they
take, Murphy added, the
department exposes them to a
broader experience in biology.
The one disappointing aspect of
the program, commented
Murphy, is that because of the
large enrollment increase, the
classes aren’t as personal as the
faculty had wanted them.
No just the students are
favoring the program, according
to Murphy. He said that while
many of the faculty wee opposed
to the program at first, the
general feeling among the faculty
members is now taking a positive
turn.
Any changes in the program
next year, he said, will reflect
staffing patterns — the
organization will be the same.
Beginning biology students at the University are now working with some of the most
sophisticated equipment available for introductory biological investigations, in the
University's newly completed science addition.
Science III opens
Undergraduate biology lab
sessions at the University finally
moved this spring out of “tem
porary” laboratories in an old
workshop building into a new
structure, Science III, for which
planning first began 11 years ago.
The “temporary” laboratories
in a renovated physical plant
were used for more than a dozen
years, according to Sanford
Tepfer, University biology
department chairman.
The new building features four
large teaching laboratories, plus
research facilities for
neurobiologists, animal
physiologists and other
zoologists.
Plagued by funding delays and
escalating building costs, Science
III set a record at the University
for the length of time between
onset of planning and final
completion.
But the final result is possibly
the most functional building on
campus, according to Tepfer,
who took an active part in the
planning and design from the
beginning in 1962.
He believes “No department
anywhere was ever so closely
involved in the planning for a
building,” and points to the fact
that the teaching laboratories
were designed with the needs of
specific courses in mind.
The four new laboratories,
which replace three in Science
Annex B (the former workshop
building) and one in the
University’s first science
building, mean that beginning
biology students, as well as
biology majors, will be able to do
far more sophisticated ex
periments than ever before
possible at the University.
The fact that the project budget
included funds for equipment has
allowed the biology department
to catch up with equipment needs
for the first time in several years,
according to Tepfer.
“Modern biological in
vestigation requires the use of
phase contrast microscopes,
which co6t about $1,000 each,”
explains the biology chairman.
“We have been able to provide
such microscopes for the use of
all students working in this
building.’’
Nearly half of the cost of
Science III was paid for by
federal grants.
The physical arrangement of
the new building will afford
better use of teaching staff, as
well as of materials and equip
ment. Science III has a central
instructional materials
storeroom, so that each course no
longer needs its own equipment
and supplies.
Each laboratory is directly
connected to a series of three
small rooms: an instrument
room, a room where continuing
experiments may be conducted,
and a room with vibration
damped tables.
Special features are
emergency showers in each
laboratory for safety purposes,
fume hoods which provide
ventilation necessary to work
safely with certain chemicals,
and water tables.