Good morning! I know many of you are starting up your semesters right now, so this is a long shot, but is anyone around NYC interested in picking up an adjunct position at CUNY - Hunter College? The course is a Macaulay Honors College non-majors required science seminar. It meets Tuesdays and Fridays, 2:10p-3:25p, starting tomorrow or next Tuesday (we are flexible). The course already has a syllabus and activity suggestions. The course description is below. If you are interested, please send me a CV ASAP.
Thank you! Kelly O'Donnell Director of Science Forward, Macaulay Honors College Course description: Science Forward is a non-majors sophomore seminar that focuses on developing students’ scientific and critical thinking skills. Science Forward is a seminar that explores the nature of science itself and models the way scientists think and work. The seminar is interdisciplinary; it features a wide variety of physical and life sciences so that students may practice the skills common to all sciences. In this seminar, students will often analyze issues in science and technology that have an impact on contemporary New York. Fieldwork is integral to this Seminar and might include trips to the rivers, shore, and wetlands along the Atlantic Ocean or to old-growth forest areas in New Jersey for tree ring sampling or to industrial and residential areas to compile comparative data on air quality. All Macaulay sophomores start the semester with a 24-hour species diversity survey (a BioBlitz) where students will partner with scientists and naturalists to collect ecological data in New York City. Students will then use these data to conduct their own original research projects and present their results at a poster conference at the end of the semester. We have a video that describes the framework here: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/scienceforward/science-senses/ This site (http://cuny.is/scienceforward) has even more details about the course.
