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Liberal Arts Core Curriculum:

"Scientific Perspectives on the World"

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Scientific Perspectives Courses

CORE 101 - Energy and Sustainability

CORE 102 - Viruses: Intimate Enemies and Useful Tools

CORE 103 - Remote Sensing of the Environment

CORE 104 - Shifting Boundaries of Science and Law

CORE 105 - The Science and Potential Implications of Nanotechnology

CORE 106 - The Eye: From Light to Vision

CORE 107 - Conserving Nature

CORE 108 - The Science of Art

CORE 109 - Genes and Human Fate

CORE 110 - Discovering Biology

CORE 111 - Drugs, Brain, and Behavior

CORE 112 - Social Life: The Paradox of Cooperative Behavior

CORE 113 - How to Build a Baby: A Developmental Science Approach to the Nature-Nurture Debate

CORE 114 - Ecology, Ethics, and Wilderness

CORE 115 - Why Things Happen

CORE 116 - Critical Analysis of Health Issues: AIDS

CORE 117 - Music Perception and Cognition

CORE 118 - Gems

CORE 119 - Ecology and the Quality of the Environment

CORE 120 - Earth Resources

CORE 121 - Monument Mathematics

CORE 122 - Life in the Universe: A Cosmic Perspective

CORE 123 - Scientific Investigation of the Animal Mind

CORE 124 - Cells & Human Development

CORE 125 - The Causes of War

CORE 126 - Western Medicine, Past and Present: Models of Sickness, Healing, and Health

CORE 127 - From the Atkins Diet to the Kyoto Treaty: Science, the News Media, and You

CORE 128 - Biotechnology and the New Genetics

CORE 129 - Juggling Science and Judeo-Christian Thought

CORE 130 - The Atlantis Debate

CORE 131 - Space and Time: A Scientific Perspective

CORE 132 - Climate Change and Human History

CORE 133 - Science Confronts Magic and the Paranormal

CORE 134 - The Sixth Extinction

CORE 135 - The History of Life

CORE 136 - Critical Analysis of Health Issues: Cancer

CORE 137 - Malleability of Human Memory: Science, Pseudoscience and Alternative Approaches

CORE 138 - Advent of the Atomic Bomb

CORE 139 - Methods & Issues in Cryptology

CORE 140 - Language and Cognition

CORE 142 - Contemporary Issues in Computer Science

CORE 143 - Introduction to Statistics

CORE 144 - Understanding Oppression: The Psychology of Prejudice

CORE 145 - Puzzling over Patterns: Discovering Properties of Symmetry

CORE 146 - The Good Life: Perspectives from Psychological Science

CORE 147 - The Way the Web Works

CORE 148 - Darwin's "Universial Acid"

CORE 149 - The Scientific Study of Willpower

CORE 150 - Linguistics: Data, Theory and Experiments