After completing this course the student should be able to:

-identify systems of interacting components and understand how their interactions combine to produce the overall behavior of the system.

-develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

-develop an understanding of how people of various cultures have contributed to the advancement of science and technology, and how major discoveries and events have advanced science and technology.

-develop an understanding of technology as an application of scientific principles.

-integrate mathematics as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and/or modeling scientific theories.

-gain an understanding of the structure and behavior of matter.

-gain an understanding of natural laws as they apply to motion, forces, and energy transformations.

-gain an understanding of the structure , dynamics, and geophysical systems of the earth.

-gain an understanding of the origin, evolution, and structure of the universe.

-gain an understanding of the environment as a system of interdependent components affected by human activity and natural phenomena.