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Bhawani Venkataraman,
venkatab@newschool.edu, Science Technology and Society, Eugene Lang
College, The New School, 65W 11th Street, New York, NY 10011
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| This paper presents examples from undergraduate
courses designed to teach chemistry in context with issues that engage
students, such as the environment, chemical origins of life, and
nanotechnology. The courses focus around a topic to stimulate interest
in understanding fundamental chemical principles. The topic becomes the
focus of the course with the chemistry taught to advance understanding
of the topic. The courses make use of computational molecular modeling,
problem-solving activities, data from the scientific literature,
scientific visualizations, policy briefs, and books to assist in making
the connections between the fundamental chemistry and the engaging
topic. |