Certificate of Arts & Science in Scientific Literacy & Knowledge

Students who wish to complete a Certificate of Arts & Science in the stream Scientific Literacy & Knowledge have to take 10 courses as broken down below. Please reach out to us if you have questions about this option. And see the Undergraduate Calendar section on certificates for more information.

Required courses:

• Liberal Education 1500 - The First-Year Experience: Mapping Our Communities
• Logic 1000 - Critical Thinking
• Philosophy 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy

Two of:

• Philosophy 2002 - Belief, Truth, and Paradox
• Philosophy 2100 - Knowledge and Communities: Practical and Theoretical Issues in Social Epistemology
• Philosophy 2233 - Philosophy and the World View of Science: Earth and Life Sciences or Philosophy 2234 - Philosophy and the World View of Science: Space, Time and Matter
• Philosophy 2236 - Environmental Philosophy

Two of:

• Biology 1020 - Diversity of Life
• Biology 2500 - Biology and Society
• Chemistry 2320 - History of Chemistry
• Geography 1000 - Introduction to Physical Geography
• Liberal Education 2100 - Quantitative Reasoning
• Liberal Education 2200 - Problems and Puzzles
• Liberal Education 2300/Neuroscience 2300 - Core Brain Story
• Neuroscience 1000 - Introduction to Neuroscience
• Physics 2020 - The Physics of Everyday Life
• Psychology 1010 - Introduction to Psychology A: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Cognition/Perception

One course (3.0 credit hours) from List II: Social Science Courses

Two Elective courses (6.0 credit hours) from courses offered by the Faculty of Arts & Science, Faculty of Fine Arts, and the School of Liberal Education.