When I was getting my B.S. in Plant Biology at the University of California, Davis, we were required to take a full year of Calculus. They had an excellent course called "Calculus for Biology Majors". It was quite rigorous, and required a lot of work from us, but was the best math course I've ever taken. All questions were in the form of word problems (e.g., given the following information, how often must a patient take the drug to maintain a concentration level above 100ppm in the blood?). I highly recommend courses like this for biology programs. I can think of ways to adapt physics and statistics courses in a similar manner.
Sarah Shannon Indiana University
