Re: UCLA physics course (non-rant)

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU>]

Here at Cal State Fullerton one of our more cynical chemists oft would say
that our School of Human Development and Community Services (where the
education classes are taught) must have the smartest students on campus
because their grades are so high!

Mark Shapiro

-----Original Message-----
From: Lois Breur Krause [mailto:krause@CLEMSON.EDU]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 7:47 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: UCLA physics course (non-rant)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lois Breur Krause <krause@CLEMSON.EDU>
>
> > It's especially interesting to me that a 2.5 GPA is required of education
> > majors!  wonderful!  somebody finally got it right! Are they also
required
> > to take a major in their field, and fill in the ed credits as a minor or
> > electives?
> Before you get too excited about this, you'd have to know the _average
> grade_ in education courses at the institution.  Around here they run about
> an A-, so a higher required GPA loses some of it's apparent strength.  As
> with (apparently) most institutions, the sciences here run near or at the
> bottom of the average grades in departments.
>
> Rick

och!  i thought that was likely the case.  too bad.


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Dr. Lois Breur Krause
Department of Geological Sciences
442 Brackett Hall
Clemson University
Clemson SC  29634

teaching chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology to elementary education
majors.

How We Learn and Why We Don't: Student Survival Guide,
available from International Thompson Publishing, ISBN 0324-011970

http://home.earthlink.net/~breurkrause

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