To Make My Chemistry Classes More Welcoming, I Start by Making Students Uncomfortable
To Make My Chemistry Classes More Welcoming, I Start by Making Students UncomfortableScience is becoming more diverse, but to make it more welcoming we need to examine our history and not repeat itBy Stephanie Knezz Credit: Credit: visualspace/Getty ImagesFor the past seven years, I’ve been teaching introductory and organic chemistry to lecture halls full of ambitious students who see my courses as a means to an end—medical school or requirements for a science major. They enter the room on the first day of class with…