(light music)
- You don't have to
major in Marine Science
to enjoy marine biology
and want to be curious
about the world around you,
especially our ocean environment.
My name is Tom Schultz.
I am director of
undergraduate studies here
at the Duke University Marine Lab.
Right now, I teach a course on
gateway in molecular biology,
which is a basic molecular biology course
for the biology department
and biology students,
and they use this lab all the time
to do their research projects, as well as
sometimes when the classes are small,
we'll teach in here as well.
I usually have between four
and eight during the semesters,
and in the summers it goes up to 15.
On main campus, you know,
this class is a couple
hundred people, right,
and so by coming to the Marine Lab,
or offering this class at the Marine Lab,
it's sort of, we're
teaching the same material,
but it's a different style because
it's almost like a discussion, right?
It's less of me getting
up and just lecturing,
but they can ask questions,
and we go back and forth,
and so I think it's a much
more hands on type of approach
in terms of the amount
of interaction we have.
These classes are for all students, right,
not just students who are
gonna major in marine biology
and go on and pursue
careers in marine biology.
The world is complex,
and there's lots of ways to study that,
but the types of ways
that we're trying to study
is our oceans and our marine systems
and how do they work from both
a natural science perspective,
a physical science perspective,
and a social science
perspective, the human component.
And we're interested in
all elements of that.
