Transferable knowledge and a range of intellectual abilities
drawn from different modes of inquiry across disciplines are
essential components of any liberal education. These courses
help students develop important academic capacities for use
during their undergraduate career and in the rapidly-changing
world they will enter after college. (one writing-intensive W-1
course in the fall of the first year) Students will develop
writing, reading, speaking, listening, and information literacy
skills necessary for collegiate-level academic work. Students
will develop capacities for independent academic work and become
self-regulated learners. (one course from the list of designated
courses) Students will develop a unified understanding of
scientific theory and practice in modern natural science.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the development of
science as an intellectual pursuit and of the ways in which
scientific ideas are formulated, modified, and come to be
accepted. Students will demonstrate skil