Essential Characteristics
Natural World courses are primarily about the methods and logic of science and aim to help students understand the importance of science in the development of knowledge in the world. These courses will serve to provide a context within which to evaluate the important scientific and technological issues we face in modern society, what constitutes a scientific approach to problems and the nature of proof, and the concept of change in the natural world.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Such a course should enable students to:
- Demonstrate scientific literacy through an understanding of concepts, terminology, and fundamental theories, from at least one area of the natural sciences;
- Experience an experiment or observation or data analysis;
- Use information or data from scholarly literature to evaluate scientific arguments; and
- Recognize a scientific approach to problem solving
(Committee approved: 9/2020)