Grades: College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Natural Resources

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 12:21 AM

The College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources includes the following undergraduate degrees: animal biotechnology, biochemistry & molecular biology, natural resource & environmental science and nutrition.

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The College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources is rigorous but many students rise to the occasion, Associate Dean Carol Condit said.
“Our students work hard and they earn their grades,” Condit said.

Last spring, 49 percent of grades given were A’s and 32 percent B’s.

Assistant professor of nutrition Karen Spears agreed that her students excel despite the tough expectations.

“I have taught one undergraduate class and the grading was rigorous and the assignments were time consuming and relied on extensive critical thinking,” she said.

Condit said she used to teach an introductory course and then another course students must take their senior year, just to see the change in their progress.
“It’s amazing,” she said of the improvement.

Condit said that she is not surprised that her students excel.

“CABNR must be rigorous because it is geared toward students who are interested in later going on to some type of medical school,” she said.
About 25 percent of the college’s students go on to medical school, she said.

Melinda Chemor can be reached at news@nevadasagebrush.com.