Course Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
BI22x learning outcomes
Baccalaureate CORE Learning Outcomes
This course fills the Perspectives category of the Physical Sciences.
Students will:
- Recognize and apply concepts and theories of basic physical or biological sciences.
- Apply scientific methodology and demonstrate the ability to draw conclusions based on observation, analysis, and synthesis.
- Demonstrate connections with other subject areas
Share Learning Outcomes All BI22x Course:
- Generate questions and construct testable hypotheses about biological mechanisms based on observations of the natural world.
- Design an experiment using appropriate methodology (experimental techniques, controls, data collection and analysis), reach conclusions and identify future lines of inquiry.
- Integrate subdisciplinary concepts from within and outside biology to address complex problems.
- Identify ways that interdisciplinary concepts are used to explain biological phenomena.
- Defend a viewpoint on a socio-scientific issue based on biological research
- Evaluate multiple representations (e.g., diagrams, physical models, mathematical relationships) by comparing the applications, strengths, and limitations of different models and their relationship to real biological systems.
- Create models (e.g., cartoon, schematic, flow chart, interpretive dance, etc.) to demonstrate biological concepts or systems.
- Apply quantitative skills to biological problems.
- Explain and use mathematical relationships relevant to biology.
- Work productively in teams with diverse perspectives.
- Share ideas with peers clearly and accurately using scientific conventions.
- Effectively communicate experimental outcomes using professional scientific formats (e.g. report, poster, presentation).
- Read and interpret primary scientific literature.
BI221 Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- Describe the building blocks and synthesis of the major classes of biomolecules and the contribution of their three-dimensional structure to their functions.
- Model cell components, emphasizing them as a system of interacting parts
- Predict how a molecule’s movement is affected by its thermal energy, size, electrochemical gradient, and biochemical properties.
- Describe and relate anabolic (photosynthesis) and catabolic (respiration and fermentation) pathways emphasizing the transformation of energy and matter.
- Articulate how cells store, use, and transmit genomic information.
- Illustrate how conservation of the genetic code and the varying effects of mutations facilitate evolution.
- Model the processes by which evolution allows for the emergence of cell complexity and diversity.
- Explain how mutation and genetic recombination contribute to phenotypic variation in a population and predict how abiotic and biotic selective pressures can alter those populations over space and time.
BI222 Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Explain mechanisms by which cells receive and respond to internal and external signals that vary through space and time.
- Explain how structure relates to physiology and transfer these concepts to a new situation.
- Describe how biological systems detect and respond to different internal/external environmental conditions through feedback.
- Describe and relate anabolic (photosynthesis) and catabolic (respiration and fermentation) pathways and how these processes are similar and different in different organismal groups.
- Compare and contrast solutions to shared homeostatic challenges across various forms of life.
BI223 Learning Outcomes
After completion of this course, students will be able to:
Describe the interconnectedness of organisms and their environment at different temporal and spatial scales.
- Provide morphological, molecular and developmental evidence of the common ancestry of life.
- Describe how biotic and abiotic components of the environment shape organismal traits through the process of natural selection
- Use phylogenies to explore the evolutionary relationships among taxonomic groups.
- Outline how evolutionary processes impact biodiversity.
- Explain how biotic and abiotic interactions influence and are influenced by morphological, physiological and behavioral traits.
- Explain how evolutionary, developmental, and environmental processes influence the evolution of structures, functions, and behaviors that impact fitness.
- Describe how interactions between structure and function influence ecosystems at multiple scales.
- Develop a model to explain the flow of energy, and compare and contrast the cycling of matter in various ecosystems in the biosphere at human and geologic time scales.
- Use multiple representations to model the relationships between species/population abundance and distribution in relation to biotic and abiotic factors.