As described above, the core courses are five courses by advisement. This track addresses issues that have arisen over the past three decades by the rapid application of scientific knowledge to practical problems in the life sciences and the environment. For example, our ability to manipulate genetic material in simple and increasingly in complex plants and animals has led to an explosion of ways in which we may alter our environment. With a foundation in the knowledge of a particular major, students a core set of two courses which provide knowledge and practice in inquiry and decision making and in the ways in which governments regulate such decision making. Newly acquired skills and knowledge in a particular major area are put to use as students work in settings in which decisions are made.
Students make application.
A GPA of 3.0 is required for admission. This course is the initial course in both the life science and environmental ethics track and the nursing track. It deals with the process of inquiry, and its application to critical thinking, and the development of knowledge in a discipline. Ethical underpinnings of decision making are explored. On some issues, the relationship between science and ethics is closely linked to state and federal law and restrictions imposed by governmental regulatory agencies.