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I struggle with what I can do to make my algebra-based intro course
(non-science majors) a course which involves the students more and still
"covers" material I've been told I need for the students in the course.
Every few years I ask the "user" departments what their needs are, and I'm
gradually going to narrow them down to see if I can do less lecturing and
more involved learning on the part of the students.
Science majors and physics majors are yet another group(s) of students with
different backgrounds, interests and needs.
We do our students and our discussions a great disservice when we lump all
of these kinds of students together and discuss what to do in THE physics
course. We need to begin to be more specific about which students we are
talking about and what our goals for them are. Ludwig's students are not,
in my experience, the kind of students who will get involved in a class
unless they are actively "doing science".