This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in the daily newspapers and generally covers most physics topics in a semester. This course was structured as a learning community that…

Describes a nonmathematical course in quantitative methods to train bioscience students to formulate problems directly in the programing language and to use the programs so developed to analyze the implication of the hypotheses. (GA)