Science and Chicago life

JHS
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:50:31 +0000

Right. No one who is majoring in any lab science, or who wants to apply to medical, veternary, or nursing school, or who gives a hoot about biology takes core bio. They satisfy the core bio requirement with the normal 3- or 5-quarter bio fundamentals course. Core bio is a one-quarter course that’s pretty useless for anything except qualifying yourself to graduate from the University of Chicago. Which isn’t to say that it couldn’t be a good course – one of the highlights of my undergraduate education was a Nobel-laureate-taught Bio for Poets course – but at the moment it simply appears not to be. If you are a science major, the only effect it will have on your life will be that you will have to listen to your non-sciency friends whine about it.