Biochem 301

Applications for Fall 2022 Biochem SAGE Peer Facilitators Now Open The Biochemistry Department and the Academic Resource Center (ARC) are now accepting applications for SAGE peer facilitators for the Fall 2022 semester. Peer facilitators lead weekly small discussion groups with students in the class, reviewing course content, guiding students through problem-solving, and providing tips and […]

The Biochemistry Department has a feature up on the departmental news page about the SAGE program in Biochem 301.

If you’d like to apply to be a SAGE Peer Facilitator for Biochem 301 in the fall semester, the application form is now live! Please fill out this form by 16 July. We will review the applications after that date and invite candidates for Zoom interviews. We are expecting SAGE (as well as the Biochem

The Biochemistry Department and the Academic Resource Center are looking to hire undergraduates who have recently completed Biochem 301 to serve as peer facilitators for SAGE small discussion groups during this summer’s course. The class will be offered during Term 1, beginning on 12th May and concluding on 21st Jun, and it will be fully

The terms synchronous and asynchronous might not have been very well known outside of computing circles until this last year, but they are now everywhere at Duke, borrowed into the coronavirus academic lexicon as descriptions for classes that meet online. The former refers to classes that meet interactively in real time; the latter to courses that are

One of the most exciting recent changes to Biochem 301 has been the addition of a program of optional small discussion groups, which are led by undergraduates who previously took the course. The first such experiment was last summer (Summer Term 2020), prompted in part by the urgent need to have some kind of discussion