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WHO ARE “NONSCIENCE STUDENTS” and what shall we teach them? These appear to be reasonable questions. The Commission on College Physics has asked these questions in various ways during its ten years of existence and has some products and by‐products of the asking. The vagueness of the first part of the question has made the last part difficult to answer; it is not easy to decide what to teach students when you only know who they are not. In the instruction of our physics majors we can afford to rely heavily on intuition. These students are exposed to physics and physicists for a long enough period to learn from the left hand the subtle processes of physics along with the content that we teach with the right. But we do not have time for this approach to our nonscience students. We must do the choreography for the left as well as the right hand.