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Aug 14, 2024
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BIOL 101 - Biology for Non-Majors Credits: 4 Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Campus/Sites Offered: Charleston, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Online Offering Note: Many sections are online.
Description This course includes a lab. An introduction to biology with emphasis on human concerns. Topics include aspects of organism structure, function, ecology, and evolution which provide a biological perspective for issues facing modern society. Intended to satisfy the lab science general education requirement.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Assess the methodology and perspective of science and its application to advancement of knowledge and problem solving.
- Evaluate the hierarchical nature of life, in both structure and function, from the atomic level to the biosphere.
- Assess the structure and function of DNA, including the roles it plays in the inheritance of traits by individuals; in the process of speciation; and in the concept of common ancestry.
- Recognize human influences on the living world.
- Apply laboratory and problem-solving skills such as observation, description, measurement, summarizing and interpreting data, and analyzing experimental design.
Prerequisite: None Corequisite: None Graded: Letter Grade
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