One of the goals for requiring all college students to take science courses is to develop critical thinking about scientific issues they will encounter as citizens, consumers, and patients. This article integrates skill development activities targeting civic scientific literacy skills in a nonscience majors (liberal arts) biochemistry course, but similar principles could be integrated into nursing and major levels biochemistry courses. Strategies include teaching information acquisition, source analysis argument analysis, and civic engagement. These can be integrated into classroom activities, homework assignments, and outside of class projects. The impact of these activities was assessed through performance on the activities, open ended exam questions, and an end of course survey. Students gained both biochemical content and skills in evaluating claims with evidence, and reported the course helped them better understand what scientists do and how to make decisions based upon scientific evidence without detracting from the typical content learning goals of the course.

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将科学素养技能融入非科学专业的生物化学课程

要求所有大学生参加科学课程的目标之一是培养对他们作为公民、消费者和患者将遇到的科学问题的批判性思维。本文将针对公民科学素养技能的技能发展活动整合到非科学专业（文科）生物化学课程中，但类似的原则可以整合到护理和专业水平的生物化学课程中。策略包括教学信息获取、来源分析论证分析和公民参与。这些可以集成到课堂活动、家庭作业和课外项目中。这些活动的影响通过活动表现、开放式考试问题和课程结束调查进行评估。