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Undergraduate Catalog

Feb 05, 2025

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STEM 131 - CRITICAL THINKING IN BIOLOGY

The course is designed to introduce students to elements of critical thinking in biology. The course will include papers and review articles demonstrating how critical thinking works. Students will serve as discussion leaders critically evaluating a scientific paper on a particular topic. The goals of the course are to help students understand what they are reading and presenting, and to deepen their understanding of materials presented through discussion and by formulating questions. Students will also learn how to think inductively and deductively in formulating hypotheses/questions from the material presented, while designing experimental approaches with controls, and considering the ramifications of both positive and negative results of questions. This is critical in building a way of thinking that will help students to achieve a perspective in biology from which they could build in the future.

Credits: 3