Biology

Description

This program of study will provide students with a foundation in biological principles and the diversity of life in order to think critically about real world problems in fields as diverse as infectious disease, neuroscience, genomics, and environmental sustainability. Biologists study life at the molecular, cellular, organismal, ecological and evolutionary levels. Biology students will explore scientific questions by critically evaluating scientific information, developing and testing hypotheses using the tools and techniques of the biological sciences, analyzing data, and interpreting results.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon the successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

1. communicate biological concepts by written, verbal, and graphical/illustrative means;
2. demonstrate critical thinking and/or laboratory skills required to interpret data from a variety of experimental, written, and visual sources to answer biological questions;
3. describe relationships between structure and function at multiple levels of biological organization;
4. summarize how hereditary information is expressed and passed from generation to generation;
5. describe how diversity arises by evolutionary change and how the unity of living systems results from evolutionary conservation.

Program Requirements

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Other Information

Discipline: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Environment

Program Control Number: 01061

TOP Code: 040100 - Biology, General

CIP Code: 26.0101 - Biology/Biological Sciences, General