B2: Life Science

Students shall take no more than four lower-division courses with the same subject prefix as their major to fulfill their general education requirements.

Approved Courses

  • BIO 204BIO 204: Introduction to Life Science (3 to 4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • BIO 210BIO 210: Molec&Cell Bio &Animal Phys (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2014

  • BIO 211BIO 211: Ecol, Evol, Biodiv & Plants (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2014

  • BIO 230BIO 230: Environmental Biology (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2014

  • ENVS 201ENVS 201: Intro to Environmental Science (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • FYS 123FYS 123: Understanding Bioanthropology (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2015

  • FYS 125FYS 125: Human Biology and Behavior (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2015

  • FYS 124FYS 124: Intro to Environmental Science (4 units)
    Approved from Fall 2015

  • KIN 370KIN 370: Anatomy & Physiology I (3 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • KIN 371KIN 371: Anatomy & Physiology II (3 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • PSY 110PSY 110: Human Biology & Behavior (3 units)
    Approved from Fall 2012

  • SBS 100SBS 100: Understand Bioanthro (4 units)
    Approved from Spring 2013

CSU General Education Alignment

  • Life Science: CSU GE Area B2

Outcomes

  1. Students demonstrate scientific content knowledge within the life sciences and its relevance to their own lives.
  2. Students demonstrate the application of quantitative skills (such as statistics, mathematics and the interpretation of numerical graphical data) to life science problems.
  3. Students identify differences between science and other ways of constructing knowledge, and evaluate the credibility and scientific value of different sources of scientific information.
    • Understand how the scientific peer review process contributes to the reliability of scientific knowledge; effectively search for and identify peer-reviewed articles on the topic.
    • Select library databases appropriate to the topic. Identify and combine keywords and synonyms to develop a search strategy; effectively execute the search in appropriate library databases.
    • Evaluate the credibility of information sources, using the following criteria: expertise & credentials, purpose & audience, point of view