Learning activities include instructor led lectures, student led presentations, and group discussions. The goal is to promote critical analysis of science through active learning.
Lectures: Instructors will introduce a topic through slide presentations, discussions, and assigned reading material, typically a recent review article.
Student-led presentations: At each meeting, a group of students will present the findings from a primary research paper to the class. Students will be assigned to groups by the instructors. Research papers will be chosen by the instructors.
Attendance is mandatory. In class participation in discussions will be encouraged throughout lectures and presentations.
After each class, students will submit short learning summaries to the instructor. The summary is paragraph describing the major concepts of that days lecture and presentation. Learning summaries are due by midnight on the day of the lecture.