Monday, December 14, 2009

First Year Faculty

Here's a pretty nice write up about being a first year faculty at a University.  I've actually been thinking about what it'd be like to teach about Evolution vs. Creationism for a while, this seemed like an interesting place to be doing it.
Adventures of a First-Year Faculty Member

For me, after having sat through a freshman science class from the teaching side for the first time, I think it'd be really fun to teach a freshman History of the Earth to non-majors.  The class could even be broken up with an intro to evolution and geology, then an exam.  Then the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic would be their own section, each with an exam.  If there were time you could get into subjects like Time's arrow, or other broader paleo-type questions.  Could be fun.