The Melody of Life Science-An Innovative Life Science Course Design for Liberal Arts Study

Any university or four-year college undergraduate student in Taiwan has to take at least twenty eight credits for liberal arts study. Therein four to eight credits are assigned to natural science. Life science or biology courses are among their choices. Traditional general biology or life science courses are outmoded. A new attractive course called ”The Melody of Life Science” was designed for this new generation in our campus. It based on simple and interesting experiments or activities to initiate their motivation. Betweenwhiles Ⅰ would explain the related knowledge to them. This course has been taught 3 years. About 180 students have been participated in this class (upper limit 30/per class). Students gave very high evaluation to this course. The average scores of this course during these semesters were between 5.19-5.44 out of 6.0. The contents of the course and students' feedback were discussed in the paper.