Abstract
All undergraduates majoring in a physical or natural science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are required to take an interdisciplinary-science methods course entitled Scientific Process. This course is designed to help professionalize students by introducing them to the history, practice, philosophy, and ethics associated with being a working scientist (Meers, Demers and Savarese 2003). Most students take the course early in their junior year as the first class in a sequence of research courses that culminates in conducting and presenting independent research during their senior year.
