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Requiring students to read current journal articles.
"It's important for students to be exposed to state-of-the-art ideas and materials even in a lower division course," says one political science professor. "I try to make sure that the reading list contains at least a few recent publications or journal articles, even in the introductory course."
"Actually, in some ways it is easier to introduce recent developments in the field to lower division students than to graduate students," according to a faculty member in the biological sciences. "I do this by over-generalizing. Usually this involves translating the abstract of a journal article in terms a layman can understand and presenting the basic findings or conclusions in a narrative fashion, using little or no actual data."
"I want students to become excited by the open-ended nature of science. I want them to understand that almost nothing that they are learning is the final word, that there is still much that we don't know. Even the best textbook cannot convey that; you have to do it with supplemental materials."
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