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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > October  >
Chemistry for Everyone
Teaching Science in Art
Technical Examination of 17th-Century Dutch Painting as Interdisciplinary Coursework for Science Majors and Nonmajors
Erich S. Uffelman
Department of Chemistry, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450
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October 2007
Vol. 84 No. 10
p. 1617
Abstract
Two linked courses examining conservation science and art history of 17th-century Dutch painting are described. The two courses have been taught on campus and, most recently, as study-abroad courses in collaboration with the Center for European Studies, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands. The highly interdisciplinary courses are intense, yet presuppose that students have no background in either science or art history. The courses have successfully drawn students who are science majors as well as nonmajors into the same classroom with productive outcomes. Strengths and limitations of the approaches taken are discussed and key resources from the courses are cited.
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Uffelman, Erich S. J. Chem. Educ. 2007, 84, 1617.
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Keywords
Analytical Chemistry; Applications of Chemistry; Chemical Education Research; Collaborative / Cooperative Learning; Curriculum; Dyes / Pigments; First-Year Undergraduate / General; Instrumental Methods; Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary; Lasers; Mass Spectrometry; Multimedia-Based Learning; Public Understanding / Outreach; Second-Year Undergraduate; Spectroscopy; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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