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Apr 19, 2024
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2019-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Biology, B.S.
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Requirements
Students enrolled in a program of studies leading to the Bachelor of Science degree will fulfill the following requirements:
Biology Core Courses (9 crs.)
Students must earn a “C” or higher in BIO 161 and BIO 162 before upper-level biology electives may be taken.
Upper Division Electives (13-14 crs.)
Ecology/Evolution Elective:
Additional Biology Electives (12 crs.)
Electives should be selected with advisement. Biology credits should total at least 41.
Please note only 3 credits of research and 3 credits of internship may count as biology electives. Credits in excess of that number count as free electives.
Note:
Students who have successfully completed more difficult physics and chemistry courses can substitute them for lower level required courses in those fields.
General Education Requirements
Foundations (15-16 crs.)
Foundational courses coupled with other experiences provide students with their core First Year Experience, providing opportunities to develop the requisite quantitative, analytical, written communication, and oral communication skills needed to succeed while in college and throughout life after college. Five program goals express the purpose of these foundational courses and how they support student success.
Interconnections (9 crs.)
This curriculum will provide students with opportunities to explore human behavior, social interactions, and global communities through humanities and the social and behavioral sciences. Open discourse about the causes and consequences of human behavior and thought, and the interconnectedness of societies revealed by examining traditions and structures, provides a pathway to mutual respect and tolerance in a diverse world.
Three program goals express what we will do for students. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish. Students must complete three (3) courses in this curriculum, with at least one (1) course being a diversity course (‘D’ rubric) and at least one (1) course being a global perspectives course (‘G’ rubric).
Diversity
Guide and prompt students to evaluate the diversity of human experience, behavior, and thought, in order to better understand ourselves and others, to respond to the roots of inequality that undermines social justice, while developing awareness regarding diversity in culture, ethnicity, race, gender/gender expression, religion, age, social class, sexual orientation, or abilities.
Global Perspectives
Guide and prompt students to develop global perspectives by analyzing systems, and evaluating interrelationships
Foreign Language
Guide and prompt students to understand and demonstrate oral and written communication in a foreign language as well as awareness of a foreign culture.
Citizenship and Responsibility (6 crs.)
This curriculum will provide students with opportunities to consider the function and development of institutions, as well as their own responsibilities in society. Tools for development of students as informed and responsible citizens can include study of principles and research in social science, analysis of the development of social and political systems and practices, application of critical analysis and reasoning, and contemplation of ethics and values. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish.
Students are required to complete two (2) courses (or their equivalents) in this curriculum, with no more than one (1) course being attributed with the same program goal.
Citizenship
Guide and prompt students to understand responsible citizenship through the development of ideas of citizenship and rights, how society protect or fails to protect basic rights, and avenues for individual or collective action.
Critical Reasoning
Guide and prompt students to use appropriate critical analysis and reasoning to explain and analyze concepts, and apply concepts to issues to determine significance or value.
Natural World and Technology (9 crs.)
This curriculum will provide students the opportunity to learn how new knowledge is created by applying scientific principles and technology to address historical and contemporary questions. Two program goals express what we will do for students. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish.
Students must complete 3 courses in this curriculum, with at least two (2) courses (or their equivalents) involving the natural world (‘N’ rubric).
Courses required by major:
Creativity and Expression (6 crs.)
This part of the curriculum will provide students with opportunities to explore artistic and literary disciplines and their modes of expression, considering the processes by which artistic works are imagined and created as well as the analytical tools for describing and appraising works of art and literature. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish.
Students must complete two (2) courses (or their equivalents) in this curriculum, with one (1) course being a literature course (‘L’ rubric)and one course in either the arts or creativity (‘A’ or ‘C’ rubrics).
Literature
Guide and prompt students to comprehend, analyze, and determine the significance for works of literature.
Arts
Guide and prompt students to describe, analyze, and respond to the scope of works in the arts.
Creative
Guide and prompt students to demonstrate and apply creative competencies, problem solving and preparation in the realization of a creative work.
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