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