Re: Physics lab and lecture grade

[Robert Cohen <Robert.Cohen@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU>]

We have the lab and lecture as one grade.  Some faculty here fear that
if we made it separate, the biology department, under pressure to reduce
credits, will drop the lab portion.  Has anyone found that to be true?

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Robert Cohen; 570-422-3428; www.esu.edu/~bbq
East Stroudsburg University; E. Stroudsburg, PA 18301


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Haar [mailto:haar@PHYSICS.ARIZONA.EDU] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:37 PM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Re: Physics lab and lecture grade
>
> [snip]
>         A second reason why the lab is diconnected from
> the lecture is that many students do no need to
> take a physics lab. This reduces their required
> total number of credits by 1 or 2. In Arizona we
> are under a great deal of pressure to reduce the
> number of credits needed to graduate so the
> students can easily graduate in four years.