This Exploratory and Entry level class will introduce concepts of biology to students who are curious about how life works. Through reading, note taking, viewing, discussing, hand-on activities, and demonstrative presentations, we will gain conceptual understanding how life organizes and substances itself, yet changes over time in response to its environment. We will learn how life has been studied and why knowledge about life is going to become more importance in the future in our choices about how people should live. Facing the environmental changes on our tiny perhaps singular planet, biology is an essential literacy for all global citizens.
This course will benefit students who have academic and career interests in Human Biology, Environmental Studies, Social Services, Education, Biomedical Sciences, Government, Art and Humanities, Public Health and Health Policies.
Course Objectives: Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Gain introductory scientific knowledge of life.
- Understand the connections among diverse life forms.
- Employ knowledge of biology as a means of communicating ideas on health and environment.
Required Texts and Supplies:
Paul Nurse (2020): What is Life? W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN: 978-0-393-54115-1
Concepts of Biology, Openstax online free access; selected chapters
Faculty will provide other study materials via canvas and in laboratory.
Students may need obtain material for hand-on activities and projects.
Credit equivalencies:
5- Introductory Biology
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This course will benefit students who have academic and career interests in Human Biology, Environmental Studies, Social Services, Education, Biomedical Sciences, Government, Art and Humanities, Public Health and Health Policies.