BL 114 - Biology: A Human Approach

(3.00 cr.)

Designed for the nonbiology major to explore selected topics of the biology of humans. Topics include testing ideas about the transmission of communicable diseases; how human activities change the animal vectors of communicable diseases; and that human efforts to obtain food change the rest of nature. Students explore analysis with multiple working hypotheses. The course ends with an exploration of birth. Four to five laboratory sessions. Fulfills the natural science core requirement for nonscience majors.