Lab Manuals, 1980 - 2010

File — Box: 4

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Collection Scope and Content Summary

From the Collection:

The collection contains departmental correspondence, fliers and pamphlets for departmental events including the greenhouse, faculty lists, and the Hughes Science Pipeline Project at Barnard College annual reports.

Box 1 contains grade recordbooks from 1969 - 1971, and is restricted. Box 2 contains departmental correspondence, organized chronologically, and files containing information about departmental events, organized chronologically. Box 3 contains annual reports from the Hughes Science Pipeline Project, from the years 1991 - 2011. Box 4 contains lab manuals from Fall 1980 - BC1101, Spring 1990 - BC1102, Spring 1992 - BC2004, Spring 2000 - BC1002, Spring 2000 - BC2004, Fall 2007- BC1001, Fall 2007 - BC2003, Spring 2010 - BC1002, and Spring 2010 BC1503.

Dates

Creation: 1980 - 2010

Access

Box 1 of this collection is restricted, per the Archive's policy, as it contains confidential student information. Select items in folders in Box 2 are restricted, and are indicated by a note on the folder and separeted to the back of the folder.

Historical Summary

Research with lab manuals can track the pedagogical changes in labratory education over many decades. In the early 2000s, Barnard College modernized its approach to labratory education. The shift is marked with a radically different lab manual and the hiring of a laboratory director to specialize in labratory classses instead of rotating execlusively between professors.

Originally, classes labelled within the 1000s were general introductory courses whicch both non-majors and majors took. Over time, this general introductory course was split into majors, 2000s level courses, and 1000s became the non-major introductory course.