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Biological Sciences
College of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Biological Sciences

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences will:

  1. Use the scientific method to ask testable questions and to design and conduct laboratory, field, or theoret­ical investigations to address these questions.
  2. Employ mathematical and computational skills to organize, analyze, and evaluate biological data.
  3. Communicate biological information in an appropriate written and/or oral format to both scientific and general audiences.
  4. Locate, determine the reliability of, critically evaluate and summarize scientific literature and other sources of biological information

Students who graduate with a Master of Science in Biological Sciences will:

  1. Actively participate in and lead discussions about current topics and selected research topics to become highly knowledgeable about specific areas in biology.
  2. Locate, acquire and critically evaluate primary litera­ture in the biological sciences.
  3. Develop specific hypotheses/aims pertaining to a research problem and design and conduct a study or experiment to accomplish this goal.
  4. Quantitatively analyze and interpret biological data (e.g., class project, original thesis research).
  5. Critically evaluate, synthesize and report on biological data (e.g., class project, original thesis research) in oral and/or written formats based on their knowledge of biology.