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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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BIO 130 Introduction to Botany [GEKN]


This non-majors course emphasizes the hands-on study of plant diversity. Lectures and labs will highlight organismal form and function, life history, ecology, and evolutionary adaptations and relationships. Students will gain an appreciation of basic principles used to unify and organize the diversity of plants and of the methodology used in scientific disciplines to advance our knowledge of plant biology.

Credit 4 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall

Prerequisites -
Other Restrictions -
Restriction by Major -
Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing


Rationale for Knowledge of the Disciplines - BIO 130 is designed to highlight the basic principles that biologists use to unify and organize the diversity of plant life. Evolution, as biology’s central organizing principle, and adaptation to diverse habitats provide the framework for the course. Students will apply the scientific method and its assumptions to pose and answer questions by conducting experiments and analyzing data in the lab. Because the course is structured around evolutionary principles, students will attain a basic knowledge of current scientific understanding of the universe and the laws that govern it and will allow students to become scientifically literate citizens. As such, BIO 130 meets the outcomes for a Natural Science Course in the Knowledge of the Disciplines  category of the General Education  program.

Keywords: biology , botany , Knowledge of the Disciplines - Natural Sciences (GEKN) 
Equivalent Courses: BOTN 130
Updates: Course Rotation updated 9/2018; Approved for GEKN 2/2018, effective Fall 2018; Change to title and description 12/2017, effective Summer 2018; Course Rotation added 8/2014


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