And why “weed-out” courses aren’t great for anyone.
The second issue is that the course is mercilessly cumulative. If you have trouble seeingin Week 2, acidity is going to roll you over and over. Miss a reaction in Week 7, and you won’t know you can use it in a synthesis in Week 10. Fall behind and the lectures become harder and harder to understand. You can’t make up for it by cramming a couple of days before an exam., you said that you could teach anyone organic chemistry, given enough time.
That takes time, which takes both university resources and the students being able to take advantage of those resources. My university surely tries—we have a long-term commitment to relatively small classes, maxed at ~100, with each having an extra supplemental instruction leader and with the instructors holding extra problem sessions. But we know it isn’t enough, because we lose about 20 percent of our organic chemistry I students as DFQs . That is too many.
We just went through a pandemic where nonsense and pseudoscience were rampant and killing people, and they still are, and I think the only thing that saved us as a society was that you could say to people “Talk to your doctor.” Their doctors are the only scientifically trained and trusted authority that most people know. There were obvious exceptions, but doctors held us together.
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