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Area VI: Focus on the Physical and Biological World

Minimum 2 Courses, 7 Credits

Note: Students must take at least one course with a laboratory component, indicated by (LC)

Courses in this area focus on the principles, phenomena, and methods of inquiry in the natural sciences and an understanding of the relevence of science to contemporary social and technological problems.

BIOL 1117 General Biology: Form and Function (4 credits) (LC)

BIOL 1118 General Biology: Evolution and Ecology (4 credits) (LC)

BIOL 1211 Introductory Biology I (4 credits) (LC)

BIOL 1212 Introductory Biology II (4 credits) (LC)

CHEM 1100 Consumer Chemistry (3 credits)

CHEM 1111 General Chemistry I (4 credits) (LC)

CHEM 1112 General Chemistry II (4 credits) (LC)

CHEM 1211 Principles of Chemistry I (4 credits) (LC)

CHEM 1212 Principles of Chemistry II (4 credits) (LC)

GEOG 2100 Introduction to Physical Geography (3 credits)

GEOL 1110 Physical Geology (4 credits) (LC)

GEOL 1120 Historical Geology (4 credits) (LC)

PHYS 1101 General Physics I (4 credits) (LC)

PHYS 1102 General Physics II (4 credits) (LC)

PHYS 2101 Physics I (5 credits) (LC)

PHYS 2102 Physics II (5 credits) (LC)

PHYS 2250 Musical Acoustics (3 credits)

SCI 1110 Physical Science I (4 credits) (LC)

SCI 1120 Physical Science II (4 credits) (LC)

SCI 2100 Astronomy (3 credits)

SCI 2200 Meteorology (3 credits) 

Courses in this area must emphasize all of the following objectives.

Students will be able to:

• understand the development of scientific thought
• develop an understanding of physical and/or biological phenomena
• understand and apply the methods of scientific inquiry

Laboratory courses must also emphasize the following objective.

Students will be able to:

• communicate their experimental findings, analyses, and interpretations through appropriate means