General Education Program, Area IB

Goal for Area IB: Physical Universe and Its Life Forms

The Integration component of General Education Area IB provides instruction at the upper-division level that integrates material from the lower-division Breadth Area B.

Student Learning Outcomes for Area IB: Physical Universe and its Life Forms

Students completing courses in Area IB will be able to:
1.	Relate facts and principles that form the foundations of living and non-living systems
2.	Distinguish between science and non-science. (the limitations of scientific endeavors:
namely, what is the evidence and how was it derived?) [I don’t understand this, so I can’t translate it.]
3.	Apply scientific methodology including the development and testing of hypotheses, to simple investigations in the physical and life sciences
4.	Describe influences of scientific knowledge on the development of the world’s civilizations