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Acceptable Natural and Mathematical Sciences Courses

The following courses may count toward the required five to six natural and mathematical sciences (N&M) credits. Students may satisfy the N&M requirement in two ways. Students may complete six credits of courses from below, or one of the approved five-credit courses with a strong laboratory component.  These special 5-credit courses have an appropriate, bolded notation. The course (or courses) used to satisfy the mathematical modeling requirement may NOT also be used to satisfy the natural and mathematical sciences requirement.

  • ANAT-A 215 Basic Human Anatomy (5 cr.) (This 5 credit course satisfies the N&M requirement)
  • ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology (3 cr.)
  • AST-A 100 The Solar System (3 cr.)
  • AST-A 102 Gravity the Great Attractor: Evolution of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies (3 cr.)
  • AST-A 103 The Search for Life in the Universe (3 cr.)
  • AST-A 105 Stars and Galaxies (3 cr.)
  • AST-A 115 Birth and Death of the Universe (3 cr.)
  • AST-A 221 General Astronomy I (4 cr.)
  • AST-A 222 General Astronomy II (4 cr.)
  • BIOL-L 100 Humans and the Biological World (5 cr.) (This 5 credit course satisfies the N&M requirement)
  • BIOL-L 104 Introductory Biology Lectures (3 cr.)
  • BIOL-L 111 Introduction to Biology: Evolution and Diversity (3 cr.)
  • BIOL-L 112 Introduction to Biology: Biological Mechanisms (3 cr.)
  • CHEM-C 100 The World as Chemistry (3 cr.)
  • CHEM-C 101 Elementary Chemistry I (3 cr.)
  • CHEM-C 102 Elementary Chemistry II (3 cr.)
  • CHEM-C 103 Introduction to Chemical Principles (5 cr.)
  • CHEM-C 117 Principles of Chemistry and Biochemistry (5 cr.) (This 5 credit course satisfies the N&M requirement)
  • CHEM-C 121 Elementary Chemistry Laboratory I (2 cr.)
  • CHEM-C 122 Elementary Chemistry Laboratory II (2 cr.)
  • CLLC-L 130 Collins Seminar: Science and the Universe (3 cr.)
  • CLLC-L 230 Collins Colloquium: Life:  Concepts and Issues (3 cr.)
  • COGS-Q 250 Mathematics and Logic for the Cognitive and Information Sciences (4 cr.)
  • COGS-Q 270 Experiments and Models in Cognition (4 cr.)
  • COLL-E 105 Topics in Natural & Mathematical Sciences (3 cr.)
  • COLL-S 105 IFS Seminar in N&M (3 cr.)
  • CSCI-A 110 Introduction to Computers and Computing (3 cr.)
  • CSCI-A 201 Introduction to Programming I (4 cr.)
  • CSCI-A 202 Introduction to Programming II (4 cr.)
  • CSCI-C 102 Great Ideas in Computing  (3 cr.)
  • CSCI-C 211 Introduction to Computer Science (4 cr.)
  • CSCI-C 212 Introduction to Software Systems, Honors (4 cr.)
  • CSCI-H 211 Introduction to Computer Science (4 cr.)
  • CSCI-H 212 Introduction to Software Systems, Honors (4 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 107 Physical Systems of the Environment (3 cr.)
  • GEOG-G 109 Weather and Climate (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 103 Earth Science: Materials and Processes (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 104 Evolution of the Earth (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 105 Earth: Our Habitable Planet (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 111 Physical Geology (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 112 Historical Geology (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 114 Dinosaurs and Their Relatives (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 116 Our Planet and Its Future (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 121 Meteorites and Geological Processes in Planets (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 131 Oceans and Our Global Environment (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 141 Earthquakes and Volcanoes (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 171 Environmental Geology (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-G 188 Volcanoes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada: Geology and Natural Heritage  (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-S 103 Earth Science: Materials and Processes Honors (3 cr.)
  • GEOL-S 121 Meteorites and Geological Processes in Planets, Honors (3 cr.)
  • HON-H 241 Scientific Uncertainty and Discovery  (3 cr.)
  • HPER-N 231 Human Nutrition (3 cr.)
  • HPSC-X 200 Scientific Reasoning (3 cr.)
  • HPSC-X 253 Inductive Reasoning (3 cr.)
  • HUBI-B 101 The Human Organism (3 cr.)
  • INFO-I 101 Introduction to Informatics (4 cr.)
  • MATH-A 118 Finite Mathematics for the Social and Biological Sciences (3 cr.)
  • MATH-D 116 Introduction to Finite Mathematics I (2 cr.)
  • MATH-D 117 Introduction to Finite Mathematics II (2 cr.)
  • MATH-J 113 Introduction to Calculus with Applications (3 cr.)
  • MATH-M 118 Finite Mathematics (3 cr.)
  • MATH-M 119 Brief Survey of Calculus I (3 cr.)
  • MATH-M 120 Brief Survey of Calculus II (3 cr.)
  • MATH-M 211 Calculus I (4 cr.)
  • MATH-M 212 Calculus II (4 cr.)
  • MATH-M 213 Accelerated Calculus (4 cr.)
  • MATH-S 118 Honors Finite Mathematics (3 cr.)
  • MATH-S 212 Honors Calculus II (4 cr.)
  • MSCI-M 216 Medical Science of Psychoactive Drugs (3 cr.)
  • PHIL-P 250 Introductory Symbolic Logic (3 cr.)
  • PHIL-P 251 Intermediate Symbolic Logic (3 cr.)
  • PHSL-P 215 Basic Human Physiology (5 cr.) (This 5 credit course satisfies the N&M requirement)
  • PHYS-P 101 Physics in the Modern World (4 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 105 Basic Physics of Sound (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 108 Intermediate Acoustics Laboratory (2 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 111 Physics of Extraterrestrial Life and Death (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 114 Understanding the Invisible Universe (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 120 Energy and Technology (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 125 Energy in the Twenty-first Century (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 150 How Things Work (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 151 Twenty-first Century Physics (3 cr.)
  • PHYS-P 201 General Physics I (5 cr.) (This 5 credit course satisfies the N&M requirement)
  • PHYS-P 202 General Physics II (5 cr.) (This 5 credit course satisfies the N&M requirement)
  • PSY-P 101 Introductory Psychology I (3 cr.)
  • PSY-P 106 General Psychology, Honors (4 cr.)
  • PSY-P 151 Introduction to Psychology I for Majors (3 cr.)
  • PSY-P 155 Introduction to Psychological and Brain Sciences (3 cr.)
  • PSY-P 201 An Introduction to Neuroscience (3 cr.)
  • PSY-P 204 Psychological and Biological Bases of Human Sexuality (3 cr.)
  • SOC-S 110 Charts, Graphs, and Tables (3 cr.)
  • SPEA-E 272 Introduction to Environmental Sciences (3 cr.)
  • STAT-S 100 Statistical Literacy (3 cr.)

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