Snow College Science/Math Lifescience Assessment

The mission of the Biology Department is threefold:

To expose students to the basic principles of the science of biology which may include a laboratory experience (General Education).
To give students majoring in Classical Biology, Natural Resources, or biology related fields a solid background in the science of Biology and biological laboratory techniques that will allow them to transfer to a university at the junior level.
To give students majoring in a pre-professional field (pre medicine, pre-nursing, pre-pharmacy, pre-dentistry, etc.) a solid background in Cell Biology, Plant Biology, Animal Biology, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology, Microbiology, and Pathophysiology that will allow them to transfer into a professional program, or to a university at the junior level.

Students who complete recommended Biological Sciences curricula at Snow College will be expected to demonstrate that they:

know the essential qualities and key processes commonly found in life forms;
have begun to understand the diversity of living organisms and their myriad interrelationships in the biological world;know how to apply systematic
methods to understand complexities of individual organism or to distinguish among divers species;
can use microscopes, computers, other commonly available lab equipment and supplies;
can read the literature of the life sciences flexibly, analytically and imaginatively;
appreciate that they have been exposed to an unfortunately small number of the myriad beau ties and marvels of the living world, extant or extinct;
have some understanding of the role that biology plays in modern life as well as past history.