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The Biology Department has identified the following learning outcomes that students should attain following completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree:
Student Learning Outcomes for the Biology Major
All biologists can creatively use the process of science to explore the complex and dynamic living world from molecules to ecosystems.
All biologists can tap into innate human curiosity.
All biologists can apply the process of science.
All biologists can use quantitative reasoning.
All biologists can use qualitative reasoning.
All biologists can use modeling and simulation.
All biologists can tap into the interdisciplinary nature of science.
All biologists can communicate and collaborate with other disciplines.
All biologists understand the relationship between science and society.
All biologists can define and solve problems at the interface of life, the physical world, and society with resilience and confidence.
All biologists can explain that the diversity of life evolved over time by processes of mutation, selection, and genetic change.
All biologists can explain how the basic units of structure define the function of all living things.
All biologists can explain how the growth and behavior of organisms are activated through the expression of genetic information in context.
All biologists can explain how biological systems grow and change by processes based upon chemical transformation pathways and are governed by the laws of thermodynamics.
All biologists can explain how living systems are interconnected and interacting.