SCI 130 - Connecting to STEM Majors

Units: 2; Breadth Area: GE - E
Connecting to STEM Majors provides STEM majors with a first-year introduction to the discipline in a safe, relaxed course atmosphere, while simultaneously promoting peer-community where students with shared interests can teach, learn, and support one another within and beyond the classroom.

Prerequisites: Major in College of Science
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: ABC/NC grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-E Lifelong Understanding and Self Development
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain core STEM concepts, including how STEM disciplines intersect with daily life and professions;
Apply quantitative reasoning to address STEM questions in a variety of STEM majors;
Practice STEM inquiry and communication of STEM information through hands on hypothesis generation, data collection, data analysis, data visualization, and reporting conclusions on real-world case studies;
Reflect upon social-cultural aspects, including the evaluation of historical racism, sexism, and colonialism in STEM disciplines;
Develop skills and abilities that will serve students throughout their lives by making lifelong connections with the environment & natural world (GE-E);
Apply learning within, and outside, of the classroom through authentic research on real-word case studies and activities (GE-E);
Demonstrate the capacity to make informed and ethical decisions focusing on social justice issues in the context of biology, ethical debates in modern biology, and the interplay between biology and society (GE-E).

E. Lifelong Learning and Self-Development Learning Outcomes

develop intellectual, practical, and/or physical skills and abilities that will serve them throughout their lives;
apply their learning to other pursuits within and outside of the classroom; and
demonstrate the capacity to make informed and ethical decisions.