The Biology Department has identified the following learning outcomes that students should attain following completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree:
Student Learning Outcomes for the Biology Major
- All biologists can creatively use the process of science to explore the complex and dynamic living world from molecules to ecosystems.
- All biologists can tap into innate human curiosity.
- All biologists can apply the process of science.
- All biologists can use quantitative reasoning.
- All biologists can use qualitative reasoning.
- All biologists can use modeling and simulation.
- All biologists can tap into the interdisciplinary nature of science.
- All biologists can communicate and collaborate with other disciplines.
- All biologists understand the relationship between science and society.
- All biologists can define and solve problems at the interface of life, the physical world, and society with resilience and confidence.聽
- All biologists can explain that the diversity of life evolved over time by processes of mutation, selection, and genetic change.
- All biologists can explain how the basic units of structure define the function of all living things.
- All biologists can explain how the growth and behavior of organisms are activated through the expression of genetic information in context.
- All biologists can explain how biological systems grow and change by processes based upon chemical transformation pathways and are governed by the laws of thermodynamics.
- All biologists can explain how living systems are interconnected and interacting.