# Descriptions The three course sequence in the Center for Integrative Studies in General Science concludes with courses that are themed in physical science, but are focused on helping students to investigate and analyze phenomenon and then to make informed choices. - **203A**: Science as a way of knowing about natural and anthropogenic global change. Implications for societies. - **203B**: Science as a way of knowing about natural hazards, as well as natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Implications for societies. - **205**: Role of observation, theory, philosophy, and technology in the development of the modern conception of the universe. The Copernican Revolution. Birth and death of stars. Spaceship Earth. Cosmology and time. - **209**: Laws of physics through demonstrations and analyses of every day phenomena. Optics, mechanical systems and electromagnetic phenomena. - **220**: Elementary particle physics and the Big Bang for non-scientists. A survey of particles and forces in the early universe as it is recreated at high energy particle colliders in laboratories around the world. * ## Make Choices * [[Reliability of science]] - Describe and evaluate a range of ways that scientists use to ensure the reliability of data and the objectivity and generalizability of explanation * [[Science argumentation]] - Connects claims, evidence and reasoning to make an argument for a course of action * [[Science impacts]] - Explain the potential implications of scientific knowledge for society * [[Science in issues]] - Identify scientific concepts and processes involved in a scientific issue * [[Science is revisable]] -Scientific information is subject to revision - ## Investigate and Analyze Phenomena - [[Make decisions]] - Make science-based decisions about personal choices - [[Is it science]] - Distinguish questions that are possible to investigate scientifically - [[Construct argument]] - Recognizes and applies scientific claims, evidence and reasoning to construct a valid argument - [[Predictions]] - Make and justify appropriate predictions - [[Limit bias]] - Evaluate ways of limiting bias and the range of assumptions that would be acceptable for their question. - [[Scientific models]] - Use and develop models to communicate scientific knowledge and to make predictions - [[Science Knowledge]] - Recall and apply appropriate scientific knowledge