Physics in the open‐door college

MAR 01, 1970

A wide range of student goals and motivations, and a lack of defined objectives for the courses provided, add up to a colossal challenge.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022019

Bill G. Aldridge

THE EMERGING two‐year community college faces special problems in teaching physics to nonphysics majors. All the teaching difficulties present at universities are compounded at the junior college, and in addition the character of the college itself introduces new problems. Our pre‐engineering courses, curricula for liberal‐arts majors and the very difficult ones for two‐year technology courses each present their own problems.

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Bill G. Aldridge, Florissant Valley Community College.

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