STEM Division

This program is designed to prepare the student to enter a baccalaureate program in biological, physical, or pre-professional science or engineering at the junior level.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills.
• Apply mathematical methods to scientific problems.
• Apply basic scientific principles and concepts in the solution of problems and laboratory experiments.
• Demonstrate an ability to collect, organize, analyze, evaluate and present data.
• Demonstrate an ability to retrieve data and search relevant literature.
• Demonstrate the ability to use specific scientific apparatus and instrumentation.
• Explain basic scientific principles related to the behavior of matter and energy from the atomic level through the macroscopic level.
• Transfer to an accredited college or university.

Program Classes (11 credits)

• MAT 210 Statistics , MAT 220 Calculus I  OR MAT 221 Calculus II  (3/4 credits)
• BIO 150 Biology I , CHE 150 Chemistry I  OR PHY 240 Physics I  (4 credits)
• BIO 155 Biology II , CHE 155 Chemistry II  OR PHY 245 Physics II  (4 credits)

General Education Requirements AS (38/40 credits) 

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Elective (s)

This program requires minimum completion of two elective courses. 

• BIO 250 Anatomy and Physiology I  (4 credits)
• BIO 255 Anatomy and Physiology II  (4 credits)
• BIO 280 Microbiology  (4 credits)
• CHE 250 Organic Chemistry I  (4 credits)
• Any 200-level MAT course noy used to fulfill a General Education requirement. 

Program Guide

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