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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

BIO 131 - Introductory Biology Laboratory I

Credits 1
Laboratory / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: Biology Majors Only or Engineering Majors or permission of department chair or instructor
The first of a two-semester sequence designed to provide freshmen biology majors and other students with hands on training in scientific thinking & techniques. This course emphasizes hypothesis generation, experimental design, and communication of results through peer-review style written reports. During most class sessions, students learn techniques, and then develop their own hypotheses & design experiments to test in consultation with the lab instructor.
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