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. 2010 Fall;9(3):290–297. doi: 10.1187/cbe.10-03-0034

Table 1.

SCIE1000 course aims and objectives

Aims Objectives
This course aims to:

  • Introduce students to the interdisciplinary nature of modern science;

  • Instill an appreciation of the quantitative skills required for the practice of modern science, regardless of discipline;

  • Improve students' mathematical and computational skills in the context of scientific problems and issues; and

  • Involve students in analysis of some “big-picture” issues in science.

 Students will be able to:

  • Analyze the interdisciplinary nature of modern science, including some of the similarities and differences across a range of discipline areas;

  • Explain the importance of modeling in science by demonstrating the skills required to produce and analyze such models;

  • Apply fundamental mathematical techniques that are important to problems across a range of scientific discipline areas;

  • Explain key introductory concepts in computer science, design and write simple computer programs in the language python, and interprete the output of these programs; and

  • Communicate responses to quantitative and science-based problems in a correct, logical, and scientifically appropriate style.