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1.50 Credits
(1.5 quarter units) (Prerequisites: SCI 100, SCI 100A, SCI 101, SCI 101A or 120A) Laboratory techniques with regard to sampling, handling, and identifying microbes. Identification of microbes by various methods, including staining. Preparation of cultures, proper transfer and incubation protocols, and aseptic techniques. Selected characteristics of microbes, such as fermentation and culture growth, are studied. Environmental sampling for water, air, and solid matter samples.
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4.50 Credits
Integration of human cultural and physical geography, and the connections among the physical, biological and human realms. Examination of the relationships between the surface features of the earth, climate, ecosystems and human cultures (e.g., politics, languages, economics). Includes students' interactions with the world in which they live.
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4.50 Credits
A study of the astronomical, geological and oceanographic sciences. Emphasizes the physical structures and processes that form the stars, planets and other objects of our solar system and the universe.
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4.50 Credits
Interdisciplinary features in Geographic Information Systems. Aspects include geography, cartography, and computer science for scientific, business, and environmental applications. This will include teaching the student how to input spatial data into the computer, organize the data and perform basic spatial operations.
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4.50 Credits
(Recommended: prior completion of SCI 161, 162 & 100A, or SCI 100& 100A, or equivalent) Evolutionary biology. Topics include the history of life, fossil record, causes of micro-evolution (including natural selection and mutation), macro-evolutionary processes (including speciation and extinction), evolutionary genetics and developmental biology ("evo-devo"), phylogeny construction and taxonomy.
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4.50 Credits
Examination of the interactions between oceanographic, geological and astronomical processes on the physical and living components of the world's oceans. Includes interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere and how these interactions affect currents, weather and biological activity.
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4.50 Credits
A study of the relationship of plants and animals to their environment and to one another. Emphasizes populations, the population-community interface and community structure and interactions within the ecosystem.
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4.50 Credits
A study of man's relationship to the environment and the effects on it. Examines plant and animal community structure, renewable and nonrenewable resources and environmental degradation with emphasis on what is needed for a sustainable society.
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4.50 Credits
An overview of the distribution and uses of world natural resources and the application of economic concepts to the management of specific renewable resources. Examines specific resources such as soil, water, grasslands, forests, marine habitats, fish and game populations and energy resources.
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4.50 Credits
Investigation of the relationship of laws, national and world policy, and human society's promotion of a sustainable society.
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