Natural Sciences & Technology
Spring 2025
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
spring 2025 → 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 246 | Forensic Science | LS | ||||||
| ANTH 249 | Evolution and Human Disease | LS | ||||||
| CPSC 113 | Environment, Agriculture, and Society | WCC | LS | |||||
| CPSC 261 | Biotechnology in Agriculture | LS | ||||||
| ESE 111 | Emergence of Life | LS | ||||||
| FSHN 120 | Contemporary Nutrition | LS | ||||||
| GEOL 111 | Emergence of Life | LS | ||||||
| HK 150 | Bioscience of Human Movement | LS | ||||||
| HORT 223 | The Intelligent Behavior of Plants | ACP | LS | |||||
| IB 100 | Biology in Today's World | LS | ||||||
| IB 103 | Introduction to Plant Biology | LS | ||||||
| IB 108 | The Biology of Dinosaurs | LS | ||||||
| IB 150 | Organismal & Evolutionary Biol | 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 105 | Climate Change Impacts on Ecological Systems | LS | QR2 | |||||
| PLPA 200 | Plants, Pathogens, and People | ACP | LS | |||||
| UP 205 | Ecology & Environmental Sustainability | LS |