At the same time that our students gained understanding of how authentic scientific studies are carried out and interpreted, their email interviews of authors provided a personalized glimpse behind the scenes into the lives, attitudes, and motivations of the researchers themselves.
As discussed below, this lengthy process was critical, as faculty members came to a shared insight about what deep conceptual understanding in biology means and the pedagogies that help students gain this understanding.
Helps students gain an understanding of how to make decisions about compensation.
In the process students gain an understanding of incarceration on an immediate and personal scale.
Students gain an understanding of the natural functioning of our planet and consider the consequences of human interactions with it.
Through these, students gain an understanding of criminological theories of offending and the extent of crime, enabling them to examine the role of the criminal justice and penal policy process and the criminal justice policy-making context.
The GCCHE recommends students gain an understanding of complex environmental systems, including climate change, and learn methods for measuring their impacts on human health.
In this course, we examine in detail the physical form of the built environment, and students gain an understanding of the principles and organizing strategies that underlie it.
The course is intended to help students gain this understanding through analysis of the academic and professional literature on the linkages between freshwater systems and energy resource extraction, processing, and conversion.
Students gain an understanding of systems analysis applied to environmental problems in production-consumption systems, acquire methods to quantify the use of energy, materials, water, and land for industrial production, and the comparative evaluation of different pollution types.
The BNHM faculty teach many UC Berkeley courses in the sciences including a team-taught course in natural history museums (recently taught as ESPM/IB 105) where students gain an understanding of both curation and research at the BNHM.
