BIOL 1108: Principles of Biology II

3 Credit Hours

Lecture part of a sequence designed for science majors. Students will explore the evolution and diversity of life in this course. Students will have additional focus on organismal anatomy and physiology as well as learning basic principles of ecology.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Describe the unity, diversity, and relationships of living organisms and the evolutionary processes that lead to character variation, diversification, and extinction.
Relate anatomical structures of organisms to the functions that allow them to succeed in diverse environments.
Recognize how ecological processes operate across scales from the cellular to the global level.
Connect ecology, evolution, and organismal biology to current issues in society using observational data or hypothesis-testing research.
Analyze and interpret biological figures and data.