Courses
- ISB 200 History of Life
- ISB 201 Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability
- ISB 201L Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability Laboratory
- ISB 202 Applications of Environmental and Organismal Biology
- ISB 204 Applications of Biomedical Sciences
- ISB 208L Applications in Biological Science Laboratory
- ISP 203A Global Change
- ISP 203B Understanding Earth: Natural Hazards and the Environment
- ISP 203L Geology of the Human Environment Laboratory
- ISP 205 Visions of the Universe
- ISP 205L Visions of the Universe Laboratory
- ISP 209 The Mystery of the Physical World
- ISP 220 Quarks, Spacetime, and the Big Bang
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ISB 200 History of Life
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Semester: Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite: ((MTH 101 or concurrently) or (MTH 103 or concurrently) or (MTH 110 or concurrently) or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description: Life from its origin to the dawn of human history. Living things as both the products of evolutionary processes and as a major force driving evolution and altering the environment of planet earth.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
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ISB 201 Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :((MTH 101 or concurrently) or (MTH 103 or concurrently) or (MTH 110 or concurrently) or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :The relationship between insects, human society, and the environment with an emphasis on ecological and evolutionary processes. Critical evaluation of current regional and global environmental problems and how they are effecting the development of a sustainable society.
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ISB 201L Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability Laboratory
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Semester :Fall and Spring of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2
Prerequisite :ISB 201 or concurrently
Description :Problem-based learning activities involved with observing, hypothesizing, experimenting, and analysis of data related to environmental science.
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ISB 202 Applications of Environmental and Organismal Biology
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :((MTH 101 or concurrently) or (MTH 103 or concurrently) or (MTH 110 or concurrently) or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Historical and recent development of ideas about behavior, ecological, and evolutionary processes. Critical evaluation of the use and misuse of human understanding of nature, emphasizing recent findings.
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ISB 204 Applications of Biomedical Sciences
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Semester :Fall and Spring of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :((MTH 101 or concurrently) or (MTH 103 or concurrently) or (MTH 110 or concurrently) or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Historical and recent development of knowledge about cellular developmental or genetic processes. Critical evaluation of the use and misuse of scientific discoveries in these areas.
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ISB 208L Applications in Biological Science Laboratory
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2
Prerequisite :(ISB 202 or concurrently) or (ISB 204 or concurrently)
Description :Problem solving activities based on observation and interpretation of selected biological systems.
Semester Alias: :ISB 202L, ISB 204L
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ISP 203A Global Change
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :(MTH 101 or MTH 103 or MTH 110 or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Science as a way of knowing about natural and anthropogenic global change. Implications for societies.
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ISP 203B Understanding Earth: Natural Hazards and the Environment
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :(MTH 101 or MTH 103 or MTH 110) or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Science as a way of knowing about natural hazards, as well as natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Implications for societies.
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ISP 203L Geology of the Human Environment Laboratory
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2
Prerequisite :(ISP 203A or concurrently) or (ISP 203B or concurrently)
Description :Exercises in the scientific method applied to earth materials and their impact on society.
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ISP 205 Visions of the Universe
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :(MTH 101 or MTH 103 or MTH 110 or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Role of observation, theory, philosophy, and technology in the development of the modern conception of the universe. The Copernican Revolution. Birth and death of stars. Spaceship Earth. Cosmology and time.
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ISP 205L Visions of the Universe Laboratory
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2
Prerequisite :ISP 205 or concurrently
Description :Observations of the sky, laboratory experiments, and computer simulations exploring the development of the modern conception of the universe.
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ISP 209 The Mystery of the Physical World
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Semester :Fall, Spring, and Summer of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :(MTH 101 or MTH 103 or MTH 110 or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Laws of physics through demonstrations and analyses of every day phenomena. Optics, mechanical systems and electromagnetic phenomena.
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ISP 220 Quarks, Space, time, and the Big Bang
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Semester :Spring of every year
Credits :Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite :(MTH 101 or MTH 103 or MTH 110 or (MTH 112 or concurrently) or (MTH 116 or concurrently) or (MTH 124 or concurrently) or (MTH 132 or concurrently) or (MTH 201 or concurrently) or (STT 200 or concurrently) or (STT 201 or concurrently)) or designated score on Mathematics Placement test
Description :Elementary particle physics and the Big Bang for non-scientists. A survey of particles and forces in the early universe as it is recreated at high energy particle colliders in laboratories around the world.