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
| 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 |