Required Textbooks and Materials:

Your textbook is included in your tuition.  It is an Ebook and can be found though the the Course Materials link in the left Bb menu.  Complete instructions can be found here:   Downloads/Accessing First Day Materials for Students.pdf

The Lab manual is online and linked in Blackboard

Student Learning Outcomes:

Course-Level:

Specific skills and competencies expected of students who complete this course include:

• Describe evolution and its mechanisms
• Describe various types of ecosystems and the ecological principles that underlie their properties.
• Describe how organisms are named and classified and interpret phylogenetic trees
• Describe the diversity, structure and function of viruses, prokaryotes, and the various eukaryotes groups, including protists, fungi, animals, and plants.

General Education:

As a Core Curriculum course, students completing this course will demonstrate competence in:

• Critical Thinking - Gathering, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and applying information. 
• Interpersonal Skills - Interacting collaboratively to achieve common goals.
• Quantitative and Empirical Reasoning - Applying mathematical, logical and scientific principles and methods.
• Written, Oral and Visual Communication - Communicating effectively, adapting to purpose, structure, audience, and medium.