2012 Catalog PDF - Feather River College

Academic xxxxxxx Majors
Elective List 3 (choose from these general education courses to round out your area of emphasis in biology)
ANTH 120 Physical Anthropology 4
BIOL 164 Introduction to Animal Behavior 3
ENVR 101 Introduction to Forestry/Cross-listed with FORS 101 4
ENVR 150 Ecosystem Inventory and Measurements 2
ENVR 160 Watershed Protection and Restoration 3
ENVR 210 Introduction to Soil Science 3
ENVR 250 Fisheries Culture 3
FORS 101 Introduction to Forestry/Cross-listed with ENVR 101 4
GEOG 104 Physical Geography 3
GEOL 102 Physical Geology 3
HES 133 Introduction to Kinesiology 3
HES 170 Introduction to Nutrition/Cross-listed with NCA 170 3
NCA 170 Introduction to Nutrition/Cross-listed with HES 170 3
WILD 221 Wildlife Diversity and Field Techniques 4
Total Major Requirements.....................................................................................................................27-28
To earn an Associate in Science in Biology:
1) Complete Major Core Requirements as outlined above.
2) Complete FRC General Education requirements.
3) Complete additional elective units from elective lists 1-3 so that major units, plus GE units, plus elective units
total sixty (60) units or higher.
Student Learning Outcomes:
• Students will be able to apply the
biological concepts of structure and
function, organization, cellular processes,
genetics, as well as ecology and evolution
at all levels (molecular, cellular and
organismal) and across the lineages of
the Tree of Life.
• Students will be able to compare and
contrast features of living systems with
respect to their common evolutionary
origin as well as with respect to
evolutionary differences.
• Students will gain a fundamental
understanding of how to apply the
Scientific Method of investigation to
hypothesis generation, testing, analysis
and communication, and develop basic
laboratory and field skills
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