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UBC Reports | Vol. 54 | No. 3 | Mar. 6, 2008

By Brian Lin

Lauren Weatherdon had never taken physics until last fall. She didn’t expect to like it either.

“The people I had spoken with didn’t enjoy first-year physics courses, and didn’t find the knowledge helpful in real life,” says the English-biology double major. “I was pleasantly surprised. I’m even considering switching from biology to physics.”

Weatherdon’s reaction is what a group of instructors and teaching assistants had hoped to achieve when they got together last summer to redesign PHYS 100, an introductory course offered by the Dept. of Physics.

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