Every morning, I would head to a chilly air-conditioned classroom at New York University and try not to fall asleep during a sequence of preparatory lectures on trusts and estates and other less than scintillating topics.
Thus the sequence of the lecture course is roughly (1) a review of evolutionary biology, (2) the medically relevant evolutionary biology of humans, and (3) the medically relevant evolutionary biology of pathogens.
Now on offer from Bowerbird, an independent producer of interdisciplinary arts programs, is "American Sublime," an ambitious weeklong sequence of concerts and lectures devoted to the late works of the composer Morton Feldman.
Each topic had a consistent sequence of educational activities: lecture; task-driven directed self-study in preparation for the subsequent small group work; small group work (obligatory); practical course (obligatory); interactive lecture; and non-directed self-study.
Each topic had a consistent sequence of educational activities: lecture; task-driven directed self-study in preparation for the subsequent small group work; small group work (obligatory); practical course (obligatory); interactive lecture; and non-directed self-study (see Fig. 1).
There is hope that carefully crafted learning exercises will help students recognize and replace evolutionary misconceptions, and we suggest that incorporating examples of DNA sequences into lectures on natural selection may be part of the solution.
In the sequence of courses, the 'Prolegomena' were followed by lectures on Porphyry's seminal 'Introduction to Aristotle's Categories'.
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It consists of lectures and practical workshops.
The data were converted to percent because the total number of lectures differed between classes (M1 = 49 lectures; M2 = 100 lectures).
Multimedia resources were used to transmit the content of lectures.
