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The courses must be at the 100-200 level offered by one or more of the departments in the natural sciences. Courses must expose the student to all facets of the general scientific method used in natural sciences to build scientific principles in an effort to understand the natural world around us in a systematic and coherent fashion. Courses must also contain components emphasizing tools and approaches that are critical in science inquiry including general experimentation design, precision, observation, data-driven reasoning and analysis, logic, and deduction. Laboratory courses must translate the broad concepts of the scientific method addressed in lecture courses into practice; courses in this category should provide opportunities for students to approach scientific problems, critically analyze preliminary data, formulate hypotheses, and test them with appropriate experiments. DIRECTIONS 1) Copy and paste the criteria given above into your syllabus. Include that syllabus with your proposal in Curriculog. 2) In this document, explain how the course meets the criteria by answering the questions below. Include enough detail for the committees to be able to understand how your course meets the criteria. Feel free to copy and paste information over from your syllabus into this document to answer the questions. Include this document in your Curriculog proposal. How does the course foster general breadth of knowledge and develop foundational skills and abilities? How does the course expose the student to all facets of the general scientific method used in natural sciences? How does the course incorporate tools and approaches that are critical in science inquiry? For the lab component: how does the laboratory experience give students practice in the scientific method? SKILL AREAS Departments are strongly encouraged to promote consistent skill areas across multiple sections of the same course. If there will be variation in the skill areas promoted, separate syllabi and relevant check sheets for each section must be submitted. 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