Submitted by Joanne Stewart / Hope College on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 23:59
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I am on sabbatical leave this year at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. It's wonderful!

Several chemistry faculty here are developing a new integrated organic/inorganic course for undergraduates. I think the students will have had some organic before they take this course and a very small amount of inorganic. I was just wondering if anyone is aware of any courses like this, either at the introductory or the more advanced level.

I'm aware of several schools that teach integrative lab courses, but not lecture. If you are aware of any courses like this, please post to the forum and let us know! Thanks.

Hilary Eppley / DePauw University
At our intro level, we actually took the opposite approach--dividing up into two separate 100 level courses, but I do know of at least one place that at least was doing this at one time. For some reason Northern, Eastern or Western Illinois Univ. is sticking in my head, but when I go to their catalog pages, the courses look to be traditional ones. Anyone remember where that was?--I think there was even a textbook published about half a dozen years ago. --Hilary
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