Practice of "Experimental Approach to Natural Science": An Examination for Liberal Science Subject

FUJIWARA Natsumi, YAMADA Takuma, FURUYA Kenji, SUYAMA Keitaro, YAMASAKI Hiroshi, YAMANAKA Takashi

doi:10.15017/6770262

"Experimental approach to Natural Science" is a course that aims to deepen students' interest and understanding of natural science through experiments. The class was developed with "liberal science" in mind and was first offered in the summer quarter of 2022. After all classes were completed, we conducted an interview survey of the students who took the class, asking whether the class met his/her expectations and whether the class changed his/her view of natural science. The results of the survey revealed: (1) Most of the students had expected to conduct many experiments and to learn actively in this class, and the class generally met their expectations; (2) Students became more familiar with natural science through the class and showed a positive attitude toward learning natural science. On the other hand, based on the students' attitude during the course and the results of the interviews, the following improvements could be made: (1) to emphasize training to logically construct and test hypotheses rather than acquiring new knowledge in this course; (2) to provide more detailed explanations regarding the purpose of each experiment and interpretation of the results.

Practice of "Experimental Approach to Natural Science": An Examination for Liberal Science Subject

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