{"id":290,"date":"2021-04-28T01:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2021-06-15T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:05:22","slug":"biology-1-2-in-1950","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/biology-1-2-in-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology 1-2 in 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-1.52.22-PM-491x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-1.52.22-PM-491x1024.png 491w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-1.52.22-PM-144x300.png 144w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/files\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-1.52.22-PM.png 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo was taken from the documents of special collections (Echo Board, 1950). This article reported about a curriculum survey with a specific focus on the biology department. The issue of the department\u2019s curriculum was that its most common course, \u201cBiology 1-2, \u201d was regarded as one of the \u201clesser evils.\u201d This essentially meant that students without genuine interest in biology were enrolling in this course. At the same time, this course was filled with biology majors who were required to take this course for their major requirements. One of the primary biology professors at the time, Gordon Gates decided to address this problem through a curriculum shift. His solution was making Biology 1-2 based predominantly on human physiology. As he put it, \u201cthe most urgent need of each student was that he know himself.\u201d His plan worked tremendously well. All students, whether they had a background in biology or not, now felt that they had experienced close contact with biological science and had some understanding of the functions and features of the human body. Gates\u2019 methods were interpreted as a way to \u201cstimulate real creative thinking among students,\u201d a difficult task for many teachers specifically given the introductory nature of Biology 1-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Curated by Chase Holding<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo was taken from the documents of special collections (Echo Board, 1950). This article reported about a curriculum survey with a specific focus on the biology department. The issue of the department\u2019s curriculum was that its most common course, \u201cBiology 1-2, \u201d was regarded as one of the \u201clesser evils.\u201d This essentially meant that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9273,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/histbiocolby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}