General Course Goals
These courses are part of the PSU Science Cornerstone
Project, with goals to make science
accessible for ALL students so that they can:
lunderstand and apply fundamental principles from one or more areas of scientific inquiry,
lexperience the methods and processes of scientific
inquiry, including experimental
design, the recording, quantification, and interpretation of observations, and
the effective communication of results,
laccess and utilize scientific information and
concepts in support of their life
roles as individuals, citizens, learners, consumers, producers, and family
members,
lcomprehend the power and the limitations of science as a way of understanding the world, including ways of
dealing with uncertainty,
l recognize the interactions between science and
other human endeavors.