Making Science Come Alive: Bucking the Declining Science Major Enrollment Trend at Annapolis—The Lure of the "Oceanography Summer Cruise" | NSTA

Making Science Come Alive: Bucking the Declining Science Major Enrollment Trend at Annapolis—The Lure of the "Oceanography Summer Cruise"

Journal of College Science Teaching—November 1997

Our nation is experiencing a general trend of declining enrollments in mathematics and science majors study tracks. The U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) Oceanography major is "bucking this trend" with a combination of non-traditional appraches that can be adapted to other colleges and other majors.

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