On 6/19/03 5:36 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe that the chemistry and biology 1001 courses have also become > non-credit courses. The reason that students who attend the public college > system in MN no longer get credit for taking those courses in college is that > courses with about the same content are offered to students in Minnesota High > Schools, including high schools without accredited AP and IB programs. And you would be wrong, Doug. Check out this overview of a chemistry major at the U of MN who is enrolled in the Institute of Technology (IT). http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/ug/it/it05.html Chem 1021 and 1022 are the general chemistry classes that are required to be taken for credit by all freshmen students in IT (where the real chemistry majors are, not those wimps seeking a BA degree through the College of Liberal Arts). This is essentially the same as the series that I took when I attended the U of MN that was LESS rigorous than my AP chemistry course during my senior year at Minneapolis North. As for biology, here's the overview for a biology major through the U's College of Biological Sciences: http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/ug/cbs/cbs02.html Biol 1001�Introductory Biology I is a required for credit course. I took this class at the U as well. My Summatech biology classes, while not AP, probably taught me more. As was the case with chemistry, the lab experiments were more rigorous than what I did at the U. The one area of science where it was less rigorous in high school than my introductory college classes was physics and that's because at the U, those courses were taught using calculus principles and that wouldn't have worked very well with high school kids who were taking geometry or algebra at the same time. Perhaps you need to do a little less "believing" and a little more research. Or at least start citing where you're finding the information that you're sharing because I couldn't find references on your web site. I would be particularly interested in learning which school districts are offering courses in math and other subjects that are taken by the general student population in some districts which meet or exceed minimum requirements for Advanced Placement accreditation. Can you name any of them? Mark Snyder Windom Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
