BIOL& 100 - Survey of Biology

1. Summarize the steps of the process of science.
2. Explain the role of the environment in natural selection.
3. Identify the functions of the four classes of biomolecules and the monomers of each class.
4. Identify the structure and function of cellular organelles.
5. Solve Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetic problems.
6. Summarize how DNA controls the phenotype of cells by encoding information for the production of protein.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 103 - Introduction to Botany

1. Summarize and implement the steps of the process of science.
2. Identify plant structure/function relationships at the cellular level and the whole plant level.
3. Explain physiological processes pertinent to different members of Kingdom Plantae.
4. Summarize how DNA controls the phenotype of cells by encoding information for the production of protein.
5. Solve Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetic problems.
6. Explain the role of the environment in the evolution of plants.
7. Identify and explain ecological concepts using examples.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 110 - Northwest Ecology

1. Identify resident organisms of the Pacific Northwest.
2. Illustrate knowledge of the diversity and distribution of plants and animals of the Pacific Northwest.
3. State the importance of community interactions within and between Pacific Northwest ecosystems.

1. Students will learn the scientific method to recognize how scientists use this method to guide their inquiry, generate hypotheses, experimental design, reasoning, and draw conclusions based on empirical data.
2. Students will learn the steps of the scientific Method and be able to use the steps to design an experiment, collect data, and analyze the data.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 125 - Field Studies

1. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify fundamental ecological processes in the environment.
2. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify past, current, and future environmental issues along the Northwest Coast.
3. Identify and evaluate real world problems using western science techniques.
4. Collect, analyze, and interpret ecological data to evaluate environmental phenomena.
5. Use the physical senses to heighten experiences.
6. Find order, wholes, and unity of pars.
7. Produce work that is neat in appearance.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 127 - Natural Science of Australia and New Zealand

1. Define ecological terms and describe ecological principles.
2. Describe the flow of energy and the cycling of matter within an ecosystem.
3. Describe abiotic and biotic components, including human impacts, of an ecosystem and relate how they interact.
4. Describe the methods and tools used in the study of ecology.
5. Make observations and logically link those observations to information from the course.
6. Develop skills to work effectively with peers in finding solutions to problems.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 140 - Field Trips in Biology

1. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify fundamental ecological processes in the environment.
2. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify past, current, and future environmental issues along the Northwest Coast.
3. Identify and evaluate real world problems using western science techniques.
4. Collect, analyze, and interpret ecological data to evaluate environmental phenomena.
5. Use the physical senses to heighten experiences.
6. Find order, wholes, and unity of pars.
7. Produce work that is neat in appearance.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 160 - General Biology with Lab

1. Attributes of living things: Understand and critically evaluate the characteristics of living organisms, including vital functions.
2. Scientific method:  Apply the scientific method to answer biology questions and critically analyze published research.
3. Biochemistry:  Understand and critically evaluate biochemistry principles of structure, bonds/energy, reactions, enzymes, pH, and water to cell biology.   Distinguish between metabolic and cellular uses of dietary of nutrients.
4. Cells:  Use the principles of complementarity to explain how cell structures enable specific functions to be performed in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
5. Genetics:  Apply the principles of genetics to explain inheritance, protein synthesis, mutation, genetic diseases, cancer, differentiation, and use in biotechnology.
6. Cell cycle:  Compare and contrast the division process of meiosis and mitosis. 
7. Transport and gradient mechanisms:  Distinguish between active and passive transport processes and identify examples of each.  Predict how fluid tonicity influences osmosis; explain the significance of tonicity on cell structure and function.
8. Other areas:  Demonstrate proficiency in a variety of lab techniques used in the study of cell structure and function.  

1. Interpret biological data and draw conclusions from graphs and tables.
2. Summarize and apply the steps of the scientific method.
3. Answer multiple choice questions regarding organic chemistry, energy transfer in organisms, cell division, genetics, DNA, protein synthesis and natural selection.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 175 - Human Biology with Lab

1. Define anatomical and physiological terms and use scientific terminology accurately to communicate about human biology in health and disease.
2. Name and describe the relationship between the the levels of organization of the human body from molecules to organism.
3. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology of the 11 organ systems and how common diseases affect structures and functions of systems.
4. Describe how body systems function interdependently to maintain human health and provide examples of system interdependence.
5. Explain the concept of homeostasis and illustrate feedback loops used to regulate homeostasis.
6. Apply the principle of complementarity to demonstrate the relationship between structure and function.
7. Demonstrate lab safety and proficiency in identifying anatomical structures and performing experiments which illustrate physiological pathways.

1. Recognize and use essential components of effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
2. Apply relevant criteria and intellectual standards when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.
4. Demonstrates active communication and close reading skills.
5. Connects past learning with current topics.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 177 - Biology Work Experience

1. Use and apply the practical knowledge learned from their on the job experiences to understand principles taught in introductory biology classes like Survey of Biology or Introductory Botany.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 194 - Special Topics-Biology 1

1. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify fundamental ecological processes in the environment.
2. Identify and evaluate real world environmental and ecological problems using western science techniques.
3. Collect, analyze, and interpret ecological data to evaluate environmental phenomena.
4. Demonstrate the ability to produce work that is neat in appearance.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 195 - Special Topics-Biology 2

1. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify fundamental ecological processes in the environment.
2. Identify and evaluate real world environmental and ecological problems using western science techniques.
3. Collect, analyze, and interpret ecological data to evaluate environmental phenomena.
4. Demonstrate the ability to produce work that is neat in appearance.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 211 - Majors Cellular

1. List the steps in a generalized model of the scientific method and describe the limitations of science.
2. Perform experiments with understanding, record data accurately, and communicate results using the standard form for scientific literature.
3. Classify organisms using the 5-kingdom approach.
4. Describe basic atomic structure and chemical Bonding: ionic, covalent and hydrogen bonding.
5. Describe Darwin’s theory of natural selection as a mechanism of change over time.
6. Identify the structure, function and monomers of the four major classes of macromolecules found in cells.
7. Describe and identify the structure and function of the plasma membrane and the major cell organelles.
8. Use a compound microscope to observe and identify basic cell structures.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 212 - Majors Animal

1. List major taxonomic categories of the Kingdom Animalae.
2. Interpret the significance of taxonomic categories.
3. Summarize the evolutionary implications of phylogenetic relationships.
4. State the evolutionary explanation for internal, external and behavioral animal characteristics.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of selected physiological and ecological topics as they relate to animals.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 213 - Majors Plant

1. Identify phylogentic relationships of Kingdom Plantae and connections to other Kingdoms.
2. Identify plants to the level of species.
3. Identify plant cell types and their function.
4. Identify and evaluate water and mineral nutrition of plants in relation to structure, function.
5. Demonstrates knowledge of physiological and morphological processes associated with growth and development.
6. Collect, summarize, analyze, and correctly interpret data from field and laboratory studies.
7. Apply class knowledge to basic ecological and environmental situations.
8. Apply their understanding of principles taught to new situations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 241 - Human Anatomy and Physiology 1

1. Define basic anatomical and physiological terms.
2. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology of the Integumentary, Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, systems and diseases common to these systems.
3. Describe how body systems interact with one another in human health and disease.
4. Explain the concept of homeostasis and give examples of homeostatic regulatory mechanisms in cells, tissues, organs, and body systems.

1. Recognize and use essential components of effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
2. Apply relevant criteria and intellectual standards when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons. 
4. Demonstrates active listening and close reading skills.
5. Connect past learning with current topics.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 242 - Human Anatomy and Physiology 2

1. Define basic anatomical and physiological terms.
2. Describe the normal anatomy and physiology of the human body, emphasizing interactions between and within the systems.
3. Describe how body systems interact with one another in human health and disease.
4. Explain the concept of homeostasis and give examples of homeostatic regulatory mechanisms in cells, tissues, organs, and body systems.

1. Recognize and use essential components of effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
2. Apply relevant criteria and intellectual standards when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.   
4. Demonstrates active listening and close reading skills.
5. Connect past learning with current topics.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL& 260 - Microbiology

1. Acquire a basic knowledge of the structure and function of diverse microorganisms.
2. Define and apply basic microbiology terms.
3. Use sterile and safe handling techniques in the laboratory to growth and characterize microorganisms.
4. Describe the role of specific microorganisms in human pathologies and describe immune responses of the host. 

1. Recognize and use essential components of effective reasoning to evaluate information and to improve the quality of their own thinking.
2. Apply relevant criteria and intellectual standards when evaluating their thinking as well as the thinking of others.
3. Provide reasons for the conclusions they reach or accept and assess the relevance and adequacy of those reasons.   
4. Demonstrates active listening and close reading skills.
5. Connect past learning with current topics.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.

BIOL 298 - Independent Study-Biology

1. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify fundamental ecological processes in the environment.
2. Identify, illustrate, and exemplify past, current, and future environmental issues along the Northwest Coast.
3. Identify and evaluate real world problems using western science techniques.
4. Collect, analyze, and interpret ecological data to evaluate environmental phenomena.
5. Use the physical senses to heighten experiences.
6. Find order, wholes, and unity of pars.
7. Produce work that is neat in appearance.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.