Lecture and immediate laboratory work

Hands on lab work, students go to the lab immediately.
For electronics: Lecture-lab. Develop basic concepts in lecture then carry out activities in the lab for students to see the principles and how they work out. For advanced physics:

Edwin A. Karlow ekarlow@lasierra.edu
PHY 351, 352


Lecture with immediate practice

In this course, students are first introduced to computers and how to program them using the C++ language. In order for students to be proficient in programming, they need to spend time not only writing the programs on paper but actually running them on the computer. To achieve this goal, students spend lots of time typing in the program and debugging them for errors. Hence, many of the lectures are given with the students working on the computers. This way, students get to try out the concepts immediately.

Enoch Hwang ehwang@lasierra.edu
Introduction to Computer Science


Students give mini-lecture

It is required for each student to give a mini-lecture for 10-20 minutes on an assigned topic.

Edwin A. Karlow ekarlow@lasierra.edu
Advanced Physics 315, 404, BioPhysics

Experimental/Socratic Methods with Lectures Using PowerPoint

Lecture is done using power point. Students are supplied copies of the PowerPoint slides so they can more easily follow the presentation. Many times students get tired easily if a teacher relies too much on the PowerPoint slides by merely reading verbatim from the slides and does not expand on what the slide says. I try to find ways to reduce reliance on the slide content and focus more on expanding on what is projected. I find that putting information onto PowerPoint slides in a condensed form helps me to organize the material and gives focus to the important points. The lecture is followed up with entire class discussion, small groups discussion, and when needed practices exercises.