PubMed, The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune as Tools for Teaching Genetics

An elementary course in human heredity for students not planning to major in the sciences can be based on current scientific literature and on the popular media. Examinations are constructed from questions on recent abstracts obtained from PubMed. The course is designed to promote writing skills in...

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Published inGenetics (Austin) Vol. 171; no. 4; pp. 1449 - 1454
Main Author Strauss, Bernard S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Genetics Soc America 01.12.2005
Genetics Society of America
Copyright © 2005 by the Genetics Society of America
Subjects
Curriculum
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Genetics
Genetics - education
Heredity
Molecular biology
Newspapers as Topic
PubMed
Science education
Students
Universities
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Summary:An elementary course in human heredity for students not planning to major in the sciences can be based on current scientific literature and on the popular media. Examinations are constructed from questions on recent abstracts obtained from PubMed. The course is designed to promote writing skills in the sciences, and students write two papers in the course of a quarter. In the first paper, students trace the primary source of media reports on genetics and attempt to evaluate the reporter's translation. In a second paper, students write popular articles on the basis of current primary sources.
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Communicating editor: P. J. Pukkila
Address for correspondence: Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, 920 E. 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637. E-mail: bs19@uchicago.edu
ISSN:0016-6731
1943-2631
1943-2631
DOI:10.1534/genetics.105.046326