Natural Sciences & Technology

Fall 2024

All courses on this list are approved for General Education credit on a campus-wide basis. However, individual Colleges or curricula may require specific courses or course categories. Students should consult their advisors about selecting the general education courses which best fit their programs of study.

Effective Summer/Fall 2018: Undergraduates newly admitted in Summer/Fall 2018 or later (note this includes both freshman as well as transfers matriculating in Summer/Fall 2018 and after) need to complete one course in Non-Western Cultures; one course in US Minority Cultures; and one course in Western/Comparative Cultures.

Undergraduate students who matriculated Spring 2018 or prior need to complete one course in Non-Western or US Minority Cultures and one course in Western/Comparative Cultures.

Courses are added as they are approved.

  • ACP - Advanced Composition

  • HUM - Humanities and the Arts
  •     HP - Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
  •     LA - Literature and the Arts

  • SBS - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  •     BSC - Behavioral Sciences
  •     SS - Social Sciences

  • NAT - Natural Sciences and Technology
  •     LS - Life Sciences
  •     PS - Physical Sciences

  • CS - Cultural Studies
  •     NW - Non-Western Culture(s)
  •     US - US Minority Cultures
  •     WCC - Western/Comparative Culture(s)

  • QR - Quantitative Reasoning
  •     QR1 - Quantitative Reasoning I
  •     QR2 - Quantitative Reasoning II

fall 2024 → NAT → LS

General Education Category NAT
COURSE TITLE ACP CS HUM NAT QR SBS
ACES 102 Intro Sustainable Food Systems LS
ANSC 110 Life With Animals and Biotech LS
ANSC 207 The Science of Pets and How to Care for Them LS
ANTH 143 Biology of Human Behavior LS
ANTH 241 Human Biological Variation LS
ANTH 246 Forensic Science LS
ANTH 249 Evolution and Human Disease LS
CPSC 112 Introduction to Crop Sciences LS
CPSC 113 Environment, Agriculture, and Society WCC LS
CPSC 261 Biotechnology in Agriculture LS
DANC 345 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology LS
ESE 111 Emergence of Life LS
ESE 143 History of Life LS
FSHN 120 Contemporary Nutrition LS
GEOL 111 Emergence of Life LS
GEOL 143 History of Life LS
HK 150 Bioscience of Human Movement LS
HORT 223 The Intelligent Behavior of Plants ACP LS
HDFS 143 Biology of Human Behavior LS
IB 100 Biology in Today's World LS
IB 103 Introduction to Plant Biology LS
IB 104 Animal Biology LS
IB 105 Environmental Biology LS
IB 108 The Biology of Dinosaurs LS
IB 110 Race and Environmental Biology US LS
IB 150 Organismal & Evolutionary Biol LS
IB 210 The Biology of Sex: From Molecules to Societies LS
MCB 100 Introductory Microbiology LS
MCB 150 Molec & Cellular Basis of Life LS
MCB 170 Society and the Brain LS
NRES 101 Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century LS
NRES 103 The Great Lakes - Freshwater Wonder at Risk LS
NRES 105 Climate Change Impacts on Ecological Systems LS QR2
PLPA 200 Plants, Pathogens, and People ACP LS
UP 205 Ecology & Environmental Sustainability LS
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