Biol 1403 Using High Impact Pedagogy and Active Learning

To address the General Biology bottleneck at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), an interdisciplinary team of faculty members representing Biological Sciences, English, and the University Libraries are redesigning one highly enrolled foundational biology course for majors (BIOL 1403, Animal Biology) which has both lecture and laboratory components. This course, which involves an examination of basic concepts in biological diversity, animal anatomy and physiology, and species interactions, is the first of three “first-year” Foundations of Biological Sciences courses required first-time freshman biology majors, the preliminary target group for this initiative.