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General Education Program

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Course Descriptions

Curricular Area 5: The Natural Sciences

Foundation Courses: Students select a 100-level course in one of the two clusters.

Second-level Courses: Students select a 200-level course in the same cluster as the foundation course.

Cluster One: The Living World

Foundation Courses

BIO-100 Great Experiments in Biology

BIO-110 General Biology I

PSYC-115 Psychology as a Natural Science

Second-Level Courses

ANTH-250 Human Origins

BIO-200 Structure and Function of the Human Body

BIO-210 General Biology II

BIO-220 The Case for Evolution

CHEM-205 The Human Genome

ENVS-240 Oceanography

ENVS-250 Living in the Environment

HFIT-205 Current Concepts in Nutrition

PSYC-200 Behavior Principles

PSYC-220 The Senses

PSYC-240 Drugs and Behavior

Cluster Two: The Physical World

Foundation Courses

CHEM-100 The Molecular World

CHEM-110 General Chemistry I

PHYS-100 Physics for the Modern World

PHYS-105 College Physics I

PHYS-110 University Physics I

Second-Level Courses

BIO-240 Oceanography

CHEM-205 The Human Genome

CHEM-210 General Chemistry II

CHEM-220 Environmental Resources and Energy

CHEM-230 Earth Sciences

CHEM-250 Criminalistics, Crime, and Society

PHYS-200 Physics for a New Millennium

PHYS-205 College Physics II

PHYS-210 University Physics II

PHYS-220 Astronomy

 
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