It focuses on concepts that are related to current issues in an effort to develop an understanding of how science influences our lives. It examines how scientists formulate and address questions about life, matter and the nature of the universe, and how this knowledge is organized so that it can be used to predict the future. In the laboratory students will engage in the process of science by conducting experiments, collecting data and analyzing data to form conclusions. Student collaboration through computer networking will be encouraged. Considers human interaction with the continuous processes that shape our earth and the universe.
Students study a particular geological area through lab exercises.
A course dedicated to subject areas in science that are not among the regularly scheduled science offerings, but in which there are apparent student needs that necessitate periodic offerings. Provides the individual with a broad background of information relative to contemporary family interaction. The format of the course will be a mixture of lecture-discussion sessions. An analysis of representative contemporary problems facing American society, emphasizing the causes which arise from cultural patterns and social change, and a discussion of possible solutions. Examines death and dying as biological imperatives, as social and cultural phenomena, as spiritual and religious occurrences, and as economic realities.