Biology - Major in Biology Program

This course provides hands on practice in forming and operating an academic accounting firm. Students will gain experience interfacing with "business" clients by seeking accounting engagements with the business teams in BUS 485. Students will operate the firm by filling roles at various levels within the firm, performing conflict checks, providing accounting guidance, and holding firm meetings. Students will reflect on past experiences within Constellation LVC and how that coursework provided skills necessary for success in the accounting profession, leading to the creation of an intellectual autobiography and interdisciplinary course projects. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: ACT 251, ACT 252, ACT 263 or by permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

This course is designed to provide preservice teachers an opportunity to demonstrate their integration competency learned through ConstellationLVC courses and education courses in the major via a written paper and/or interdisciplinary research project. The overall project will require students to demonstrate problem solving and critical reading skills around a topic/issue/concern/interest related to teaching and/or education. Students will be asked to interrogate this topic/issue/concern/interest from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will be required to present, defend, and reflect on the project to faculty and/or peers and/or cooperating teachers and select school personnel. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Pre or co-requisite: The Connective Experience (COE) and, in particular, the integrative component of the COE must be taken prior to or concurrently with this course. Prerequisite: ECE 340 and ECE 440 or ECE 441/SPE 441. This course is for ECE and ECE/SPE majors only. 3 credits.

This course helps students to develop an independent studies project specific to their individual areas of creative + professional interest and see that project through to completion. Students will receive training in strategies for generating original and compelling ideas, advanced interdisciplinary research methods and information literacy skills, and processes for production, revision, and finalization. Meaningful completion of Portfolio Review and Intellectual Autobiography will be part of this process. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: COE sequence. 3 credits. (This course is cross-listed with ITG 487)

This sequence of three one-credit courses challenges students to critically examine a scientific topic, problem, or area of conjecture, through a project-based learning experience. By completing a project proposal, a reflective, intellectual autobiography, a research paper, and a final poster presentation, students will investigate an aspect of science and how it affects the world outside of science or how science is affected by the world. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. This course may be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: CHM-213 or PHY-211; or by permission of the instructor. 1 credit.

This sequence of three one-credit courses challenges students to critically examine a scientific topic, problem, or area of conjecture, through a project-based learning experience. By completing a project proposal, a reflective, intellectual autobiography, a research paper, and a final poster presentation, students will investigate an aspect of science and how it affects the world outside of science or how science is affected by the world. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. This course may be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: ITG 468. 1 credit.

This Integrative Experience Course considers the paths to successful citizenship in a pluralistic society by examining historical events during the creation of commercial radio in the early 20th century. An attempt at cultural mediation undertaken primarily by women and women's clubs unsuccessfully sought to enlist the support of the emerging networks in restricting public exposure to jazz and "hillbilly" music and instead promote what they considered morally superior: concert music in the European tradition, which they called "good music." After studying this movement and the cultural context within which it developed, students will consider the lessons these events may offer for living together in today's increasingly multicultural society. Students will write a reflective essay of between 600 and 1000 words, and a research essay of at least 2500 words on a problem or topic of their choosing that is responsive to the issues raised by the course. This will fulfill three credits of the Integrative Experience Course requirements. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: Completion of Connective Experience. Junior or senior standing, or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.

This course helps students to develop an independent studies project specific to their individual areas of creative + professional interest and see that project through to completion. Students will receive training in strategies for generating original and compelling ideas, advanced interdisciplinary research methods and information literacy skills, and processes for production, revision, and finalization. Meaningful completion of Portfolio Review and Intellectual Autobiography will be part of this process. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: COE sequence. 3 credits. (This course is cross-listed with ENG 499)

This sequence of three one-credit courses challenges students to critically examine a scientific topic, problem, or area of conjecture, through a project-based learning experience. By completing a project proposal, a reflective, intellectual autobiography, a research paper, and a final poster presentation, students will investigate an aspect of science and how it affects the world outside of science or how science is affected by the world. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. This course may be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: ITG 478. 1 credit.

This course serves to introduce students to the philosophical mind and the biochemical brain. Using consciousness and its states as our basis, we will delve into questions about the mind/brain distinction and about the nature of human consciousness. This course will advance the student's critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and communications skills. An Intellectual Autobiography reflecting on the student's learning and growth at LVC will be integrated into the course. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing, and PSY 110 or PSY 112, and BIO 111/L. 3 credits. (This course is cross-listed with NEU 489)

The Integrative Experience is the culmination of the common learning experience. This experience allows students to complete an interdisciplinary project and reflect on their learning experiences at LVC Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Pre or co-requisite: The Connective Experience (COE) and, in particular, the integrative component of the COE must be taken prior to or concurrently with this course. 3 credits.

This course helps students to meaningfully synthesize into an independent studies project their interdisciplinary major/minor coursework and their overall academic trajectory over several paths of inquiry pertaining to an area of social justice or U.N. sustainable developmental goals (e.g. peace and justice, gender equality, climate, quality education). This project, whether a resesarch paper or a social activist project, will apply Constellation skills (critial reading, interdisciplinary research methods, information literacy, intercultural competencies, problem solving), entail a significant paper, and a general-public component. Meaningful completion of Portfolio Review and Intellectual Autobiography will be part of this process. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Connective Experience 3 credits.

This course serves to introduce students to the philosophical mind and the biochemical brain. Using consciousness and its states as our basis, we will delve into questions about the mind/brain distinction and about the nature of human consciousness. This course will advance the student's critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and communications skills. An Intellectual Autobiography reflecting on the student's learning and growth at LVC will be integrated into the course. Fulfills requirement: Integrative Experience. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, and PSY 110 or PSY 112, and BIO 111/L. Restricted to NEU majors. 3 credits. (This course is cross-listed with ITG 489)