• Course Co-ordinator

• Spring semester since 2015                                                                                                     

• Class size: 20– 60 science students

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This is an elective course for senior science students who plan to do research in scientific fields. The course introduces the research being done by Faculty's star professors and aims to broaden and enrich students' scientific knowledge in and outside of their chosen major, as well as to foster intellectual discussions between our research professors and students in a small group setting. I am the Course Coordinator in 2016. My responsibility includes liaising with different professors across six departments in Faculty of Science as well as the matching tutors and organizing the course in a coherent way as the students are from different backgrounds.

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In the external examiner report in 2018 - 19, Professor Daniel Stein from New York University commented that 

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" I remain favorably impressed with its (SCNC3111) structure and goals. This year the students were asked to choose a current area of active scientific investigation, familiarize themselves with excerpts from the scientific literature several decades ago and today, and to understand and explain how our understanding of the subject has evolved. Doing so requires the undergraduates to immerse themselves in the history, development and present state of the art in a currently important, cutting-edge area of science, training them in how to read, understand, evaluate, and build on papers in the scientific literature. I looked through a few of the presentations, and very much enjoyed them, particularly the "high-level’’ presentations. (I also learned a lot, too!) As I wrote in last year’s report, I wish that they had had this kind of course when I was an undergraduate."