Science for arts students: A case study in curriculum development

by John B. Heywood

The curriculum study which is described in this monograph is threefold interest; the aims and content of the curriculum, the methods by which it was developed and the way it is presented to the reader
The aim of the courses was to provide an introduction to physics for non-physicists indeed mainly for students on the arts side, stressing at banks which relate to culture and citizenship, through a study of the problems of modern physics, including radio astronomy and cosmology. Such courses are rare in this country and they face formidable difficulties. Students are not just non-numerative but anti-numerate, the subject is genuinely difficult and so suffers in competition with easier alternative options available to students; it is difficult to find teachers who are willing to give such culture courses which carry little prestige in our universities. The authors bravely tackled the first two problems, and with some success; the third defeated them in the end

123 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1977