Syllabus & Course Schedule

To navigate the course, follow along with our schedule day-by-day below. We’ll post everything you need to know about the course here, including your readings, so no need to go anywhere else!

The objective of these courses is to give you a firm understanding of the relevant areas of intersection between biological sciences, ethics, and religious faiths. We are asking big questions about what it means to be human now and what humanity will look like in the future.

Because our approach this semester will be thoroughly interdisciplinary, the two courses in which you are enrolled, PHIL288E and BIOL110, are completely linked. All points count towards both classes, so your final grades for both courses will be identical. Grades will be reported in Sakai.

Specifically, for the Learning Outcomes directly tied to BIOL110 - Liberal Arts Biology, participants will demonstrate their understanding of the scientific method, the diversity of life, the classification of organisms , cell structure and function , the chromosomal and molecular basis of inheritance and the organ systems of the human body.