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Chemistry for Everyone
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Interdisciplinary Connections
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Chemistry, Society, and Civic Engagement (Part 1): The SENCER Project
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Catherine Hurt Middlecamp
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706
Trace Jordan
Morse Academic Plan, New York University, New York, NY 10003
Amy M. Shachter
Department of Chemistry, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053
Sue Lottridge
Center for Assessment and Research Studies, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
Karen Kashmanian Oates
Office of Academic Affairs, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA 17101
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September 2006
Vol. 83 No. 9
p. 1301
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Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) is a national dissemination project for courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. SENCER courses connect science and civic engagement by teaching through complex, contested, current, and unresolved public issues to the underlying scientific principles. This paper describes two chemistry courses for non-majors that are based on the SENCER principles, and lists the full array of SENCER model courses that were developed through the project. It also describes the challenges instructors face in designing a SENCER course, setting and assessing the goals of the course, and in teaching for civic engagement.
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Middlecamp, Catherine Hurt; Jordan, Trace; Shachter, Amy M.; Lottridge, Sue; Kashmanian Oates, Karen. J. Chem. Educ. 2006 83 1301.
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Applications of Chemistry; Curriculum; Environmental Chemistry; First-Year Undergraduate / General; Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary; Nonmajor Courses
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