Biological Sciences

Students completing this program should acquire the following skills and abilities:

• Biology students will become familiar with the (empirical) scientific method of problem solving.
• Majors-level biology students will perform competitively with their peers at four-year institutions or professional programs.
• Majors-level biology students will demonstrate proficiency with life process mechanisms such as biological chemistry; cellular metabolism; heredity, anatomy and physiology of major animal organ systems; plant structure, as well as transport and reproductive function; diversity and classification of organisms; evolution; and ecology.
• Biology students will express ideas and information in writing in a format that is clear and appropriate to a science-literate audience.
• Biology students will apply various techniques and processes using information, data, and situations, to draw logical, rational and ethical and coherent conclusions.
• Major-level Biology students will achieve competency with numbers and graphical skills to interpret and communicate quantifiable information, and apply mathematical and statistical skills in practical and abstract contexts.