For each unit of credit, a minimum of three hours per week with one of the hours for class and two hours for studying/preparation outside of class is expected.
The Science Program at Seward County Community College provides opportunities to improve and enhance each student's understanding and comprehension of the natural world through a variety of courses and experience to develop a scientifically literate citizen.
Outcome #1: Read with comprehension, be critical of what they read, and apply knowledge gained from their reading to broader issues of the day.
Outcome #2: Communicate ideas clearly and proficiently in writing, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations.
Outcome #3: Communicate their ideas clearly and proficiently in speaking, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations
Outcome #4: Demonstrate mathematical skills by using a variety of techniques and technologies.
Outcome #5: Demonstrate the ability to think critically by gathering facts, generating insights, analyzing data, and evaluating information.
Outcome #6: Exhibit skills in information and technological literacy.
Outcome #7: Understand each other, moving beyond simple acceptance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity by working as a team to learn, engaging with community, exhibiting cultural awareness, and creating equity
- Summarize and explain the processes and mechanisms of evolution
- Interpret organismal diversity using phylogenetic hypotheses
- Relate structure to function in organisms
- Explain how organisms interact with their environments
- Design and perform experiments
- The process of science
- Evolutionary history and the classification of life
- Ecology and sustainability
- Prokaryotes - diversity, classification, structure, and function
- Protists - diversity, classification, structure, and function
- Fungi - diversity, classification, structure, and function
- Plants - diversity, classification, structure, and function
- Animals - diversity, classification, structure and function
- Lecture and discussion
- Laboratory experiments, activities, and reports
- Use of biology software
- Demonstrations
- Computer simulations
- Microscopes and slides
- Models
- Outdoor classroom
- eBook and on-line resources
SCCC Outcome 1 will be assessed using class discussions, tests, and reports
SCCC Outcome 2 will be assessed using quizzes, exams, and reports
SCCC Outcome 3 will be assessed using class discussions and presentations
SCCC Outcome 4 will be assessed using quizzes and lab reports
SCCC Outcome 5 will be assessed using reports and lab activities
SCCC Outcome 6 will be assessed using tests, reports, and lab activities
SCCC Outcome 7 will be assessed based on group work
SCCC Policy
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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Seward County Community College will make reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations. Students should identify themselves to the Mental Health Counselor at 620-417-1106 or go to the Student Success Center in the Hobble Academic building, room A149.