Learning Outcomes

Outcomes for students graduating from the Division of Biological Sciences undergraduate program include: 

  1. Recognize that scientific innovation best flourishes from the fusion of different perspectives and experiences within a collaborative and diverse community.
  2. Integrate the process of science as a creative and ongoing part of their life-long learning process.
  3. Critically and impartially evaluate evidence and leverage it to inspire new avenues of investigation across biological levels of organization.
  4. Utilize written, oral, visual, and quantitative techniques to synthesize information and effectively convey ideas to a diversity of audiences.
  5. Articulate how the diversity of life evolved over time and how biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere influence biological variety.
  6. Appreciate that structure contributes to function in all living organisms.
  7. Provide examples of how structure, growth, function, and behavior of organisms is dependent on the expression of genetic material in various contexts.
  8. Explain how biological systems grow and change based on the conversion of energy and matter.
  9. Illustrate how living systems are interconnected and interact with their biotic and abiotic environment.