UNIVERSITY OF GUAM

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Number: BI 392 College: College of Arts & Sciences

Course Title: Laboratory Teaching & Assisting Division: Natural Sciences

Date of Final Approval: Credit Hours: 1-3

Semester Offered: Fall/Spring

Course Counts as: General Education Requirement

Part of major program

Ö Elective

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

This course provides for practical educational experience in undergraduate course laboratories. It may be taken more than once for credit.

Prerequisites: Completion of the course in which the laboratory is offered, or of an equivalent course, and consent of instructor.

2. COURSE CONTENT:

This is a practical course; students assist in labs and learn by helping others.

3. RATIONALE FOR THE COURSE:

The best way to learn is to teach. Assisting is a positive part of a resume or curriculum vita. Not enough money for graduate lab assistants.

4. SKILLS AND BACKGROUND REQUIRED OR EXPECTED:

Completion of the course in which the laboratory is offered, or of an equivalent course, and permission of instructor.

5. TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ANTICIPATED CLASS SIZE:

Not appropriate.

6. ADDITIONAL COURSE DESCRIPTORS:

None.

7. LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR STUDENTS:

Students re-learn materials by explaining to other students. Students learn to deal with other people.

Students learn to prepare quizzes, grade papers and quizzes and give brief instructions – under a professor’s direction.

8. METHODS OF EVALUATION:

Assessment of participation, of quizzes and grading done, and of usefulness of student to others.

9. REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND/OR STUDY GUIDES:

10. SUBSEQUENT COURSES:

This “course” results from previous courses, in that a student generally does not assist unless he/she has taken the course or its equivalent previously. Thus, any subsequent course makes this course possible.