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 Competencies

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.