BIOL 215 - Zoology

Credit Hours: 4
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory (or Other) Hours: 3

General Education Code(s): 23NS, 23RE
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 100 or higher
Corequisite(s): None
Restriction(s): None

Lectures emphasize comparative anatomical and physiological adaptations for all the life processes across the animal kingdom and the developmental and evolutionary processes leading to these adaptations. Laboratory study involves a phylogenetic survey of the animal kingdom investigating adaptations and relationships of all the major phyla and some minor ones.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: The general education requirement for natural sciences is satisfied by BIOL 215. To meet this General Education requirement, students will be able to:

demonstrate scientific reasoning applied to the natural world, including an understanding of the methods scientists use to explore natural phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of data analysis or mathematical modeling; and
demonstrate scientific reasoning applied to the natural world, including application of scientific data, concepts, and models in one of the natural sciences.

The general education requirement for critical thinking is satisfied by BIOL 215. To meet this General Education requirement, students will be able to:

clearly articulate an issue or problem;
identify, analyze, and evaluate ideas, data, and arguments as they occur in their own or others’ work;
acknowledge limitations such as perspective and bias; and
develop well-reasoned (logical) arguments to form judgments and/or draw conclusions.