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echo: educator
to: MORT STERNHEIM
from: RON MCDERMOTT
date: 1996-06-01 14:30:00
subject: TEXTBOOKS

 RM>Nursing candidates, etc, have to wade through intorductory
 RM>physics as a requirement... Many college texts have sections
 RM>or applications specifically geared to this market, while
 RM>others are strictly geared to physics major types.  To avoid
MS>A lot more are aimed at engineering students; that's a bigger market 
MS>than physics majors.
I was kind of lumping the two together in this case...
 RM>the confusion, many (most) colleges have two courses; one
 RM>for pre-med and nurses, one for majors....
MS>You don't put nurses and premeds in the same class normally.  Pre-meds
MS>are much stronger academically on the average.
Three courses then, or premeds in with the majors and engineers?
MS>At UMass we have one series for physics majors, another for 
MS>engineering and physical sciences majors, one for biology/premed.
MS>Also a one semester survey course, as well as several one semester 
MS>special topics courses -- energy, physics of music, physics for   
MS>speech and hearing therapy students, relativity.  We used to have 
MS>a course specifically for nurses until they dropped the requirement.
Kept lots of people teaching !
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