Science Requirement
The central concern of Science Distributed Disciplinary Foundation courses at WCU is to expose students to the world-views and toolset of traditional science disciplines. This includes teaching students to observe and to gather and analyze quantitative data, to gain experience with graphical or tabular presentations of quantitative information, and to use quantitative methods to support or refute a hypothesis, as they examine the natural or physical world. Science Distributed Disciplinary Foundations courses emphasize the cognitive skills of critical thought, creativity, analysis, and synthesis that are central to a foundation in general education, and have content directed largely toward the experimental study of the natural or physical world using the commonly accepted methods of science.
Students must earn 6-8 credits of Science Distributed Disciplinary Foundations coursework. Students must select courses from two different disciplines. Students must select courses outside of the student’s major.
This requirement can be fulfilled via transfer credits.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BIO 100 | Basic Biological Science | 3 |
| BIO 110 | General Biology I | 4 |
| CHE 100 | Concepts of Chemistry | 3 |
| CHE 102 | General Chemistry I with Support | 4 |
| CHE 103 | General Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHE 107 | General Chemistry for Allied Health Sciences | 4 |
| CHE 160 | The Chemistry of Beer | 3 |
| CSC 110 | Fundamentals in Computer Science | 3 |
| CSC 112 | Programming & Data Science | 3 |
| CSC 115 | Introduction to Computer Programming | 3 |
| CSC 116 | Computational Thinking for Problem Solving | 3 |
| CSC 141 | Computer Science I | 3 |
| ESS 101 | Introduction to Geology | 3 |
| ESS 111 | Other Worlds, Other Stars | 3 |
| ESS 112 | Galaxies and Cosmology | 3 |
| ESS 127 | Movies, Media, and Entertainment from an Earth and Space Science Perspective | 3 |
| ESS 128 | The Science of Natural Disasters | 3 |
| ESS 130 | Our Ocean | 3 |
| ESS 170 | Introduction to Our Atmosphere | 3 |
| GEO 104 | Introduction to Geospatial Technology and Analytics | 3 |
| HEA 258 | Introduction to Epidemiology | 3 |
| HON 122 | Computer Science for Social Justice | 3 |
| HON 314 | Science, Technology, and Environmental Systems | 3 |
| NTD 303 | Introductory Principles Human Nutrition | 3 |
| PHY 100 | Elements of Physical Science | 3 |
| PHY 105 | Structure of the Universe | 3 |
| PHY 123 | Food, Fire, and Physics: The Science of Cooking | 3 |
| PHY 130 | General Physics I | 4 |
| PHY 170 | Physics I | 4 |
| SCI 100 | Climate Change | 3 |
| SCI 101 | Earth and Its Systems | 3 |
| SCI 102 | Life, Matter, and Energy | 3 |
| SCI 103 | Science in the Arts: Color and Music | 3 |
