UCOR 3800 - Natural Sciences and Global Challenges

5 credit hours

Courses in the natural sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of a specific discipline in the natural sciences. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of a natural science as it relates to global issues, explore approaches to and solutions for global issues, develop skills and confidence in applying knowledge to complex issues, and improve writing and research skills. Global Challenges courses include students from a variety of disciplines, promoting interdisciplinary conversation and understanding. This course requires a major paper or project, as well as some kind of reflective assignment where students are asked to synthesize their overall learning as it relates to the global issue being studied. Community-based learning and/or field or laboratory research is encouraged but not required. Prerequisites: 75 or more credits; and UCOR 1200 or MATH 118 or MATH 120 or MATH 130 or MATH 131 or MATH 134 or MATH 135 or MATH 141; and UCOR 1800 or PHYS 121 or BIOL 200 or PHYS 105 or CHEM 121/131 or BIOL 161/171