Bachelor of Science or Arts in Science

Bachelor of Science

Learn about the cell and its properties, basic genetics, the immune system, and recombinant DNA technology with illustrations from bacteria, plants, animals, and humans with a lab designed to complement what students learn in the lecture portion of the course.

Study the origin, diversity, and evolution of life, focusing on the physiology of plants, animals, and organ systems. You will explore the processes of microevolution and macroevolution, animal behavior, and the ecology of populations and communities, emphasizing biotic interactions and biogeography. The lab complements what you learn in the lecture portion of the course.

This course uses the Quantitative Approach with a lab. You will learn about the central principles of modern chemistry using a quantitative atoms-first approach, and the lab is designed to complement what you learn in the lecture portion of the course.

Learn about the motion of particles in one and two dimensions, forces, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, angular momentum, and conservation laws, gravitation, fluids: Archimedes and Bernoulli, mechanical waves, sound, temperature, heat, heat engines, and laws of thermodynamics in this introductory course without calculus, for liberal arts students and students emphasizing the biological sciences. The lab complements what you learn in the lecture portion of the course.

This course introduces you to Newtonian mechanics, and you will learn about the statics and dynamics of point particles, rigid bodies, and fluids. Topics include vector algebra, projectile, and circular motion; Newton's Laws, conservation of energy, collisions, and conservation of momentum; rotational dynamics and conservation of angular momentum; statics, harmonic oscillators and pendulums; gravitation and Kepler's Laws, fluid statics and dynamics.

This is a freshman-level course in the fundamental properties of light and heat and related applications such as optical instruments and heat engines. It introduces you to the propagation of light and heat. Topics include temperature scales and heat, laws of thermodynamics, basic kinetic theory of gases, heat engines, elementary wave theory and sound, light as an electromagnetic wave, geometrical optics, lenses and mirrors, physical optics, diffraction and interference, and optical instruments.

Learn to characterize data in terms of distributions, measures of center and spread, scatterplots, nonlinear models and transformations, correlation, regression, design experiments using models from probability, discrete and continuous random variables, normal distributions, sampling distributions, the central limit theorem and apply statistical inference; confidence intervals and test of significance, t procedures, inference for count data, two-way tables and chi-square procedures, inference for regression, and analysis of variance.

Learn to apply statistics to data collected in experiments and evaluate scientific hypotheses to answer questions such as “Does sleep improve memory?” and “Does having friends improve mental health?” Learn how to apply the core statistical tools in science, such as t-tests, ANOVA, regression, and Chi-square tests in controlled scientific experiments.