UCOR 3820 - 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.

Prerequisite Course/s: 75 or more credits; and UCOR 1200 or MATH 1120 or MATH 1321 or MATH 1130 or MATH 1230 or MATH 1334 or MATH 1335 or MATH 1210; and UCOR 1810 or UCOR 1830 or 1840 or PHYS 1210 or BIOL 2200 or PHYS 1050 or CHEM 1500/1501 or BIOL 1610/1611