Courses that can be used to fulfill this requirement include astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, physical geography, and physics. Course emphasizes the mastery of basic scientific principles and concepts. Course addresses knowledge of scientific method. Course includes coverage of the methods of scientific inquiry that characterize the particular discipline. Course addresses potential for uncertainty in scientific inquiry.
Course illustrates the usefulness of mathematics in scientific description and reasoning.
Students submit written reports of laboratory experiments for constructive evaluation by the instructor. Course is general in nature, not a course with great depth or specificity. Course stresses understanding of the nature of basic scientific issues. Course develops appreciation of scope and limitations of scientific capability. Course conveys, by use of example, the reality of limitations in the scientific capabilities of today.