NCLC 120 The Natural World
This learning community will not be offered after the 2008-2009 academic year.
This course will create a learning environment that allows students to exhibit knowledge of the chronological flow of events in the evolution of life and the process of evolution. Students will learn to understand analytical tools such as: measures of central tendency and variability; principals of measurement, confidence intervals and levels of confidence; and normal distribution and sampling. Students will also learn to discriminate between subjective and objective reasoning and information sources, and be able to apply this reasoning to practical societal and scientific problems. Through the course, students will learn to understand the importance of biology to human culture and history with specific references to disease organisms. They will also develop oral and written communication skills through critical thinking, argument development, organization and presentation.
web site: http://classweb.gmu.edu/nclc120/
Major Assignments:
- Advocacy Project
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Debate on Controversial Science Projects
- Ongoing Journal Exercises and Essays
- Smithsonian Institution Naturalist Center field study
- Self-Selected Museum Experience
- Transformation Project, Part II
- Unit II Portfolio
