First-Year Courses
University Seminar(ARTSC0092/CGS 0092) provides new and/or transfer students with the skills necessary to maximize their potential for academic success at the University of Pittsburgh. During this course students will be exposed to various University resources; explore educational and career planning; gain academic confidence; and will become familiar with and utilize cognitive science-based skills and competencies necessary for college success.
Weekly class meetings will be virtual as scheduled in Peoplesoft.
This CGS hybrid course combines web-based asynchronous and synchronous instruction. Students need to be available for virtual online meetings during designated class times and participate in asynchronous discussions and activities delivered through the CANVAS learning management system (LMS). Students must have reliable internet access to take this course. Students complete the course requirements within one term and move through the course materials as a cohort.
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First Approaches to Research is designed to teach students how to connect to research and creative projects across disciplines, interests, and methodologies. Driven by their own curiosities and the search for answers, students will learn the tools needed to launch meaningful undergraduate research careers.
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A course focusing on practical astronomy and providing a historical perspective of our place in the universe. Phenomena that can be readily observed with the unaided eye or a small telescope are discussed. The historical perspective starts with the earliest views, and discusses scientific discovery as a process leading up to modern ideas of the expanding universe of galaxies.
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This course deals primarily with astronomical objects lying outside our solar system. The level is appropriate for non-science students.
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This lecture course is designed to meet anatomy pre-requisites for students who are applying for admission to health profession programs but does not count towards any of the majors in biological sciences. Students will explore human functional and clinical gross anatomy organized by body region. Imaging techniques, disease pathologies, and case studies are utilized to enhance and apply lecture information.
Co-enrollment with BIOSC 0042 is required (CREQ: BIOSC 0042)
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This laboratory course is designed to meet anatomy pre-requisites for students who are applying for admission to health profession programs but does not count towards any of the majors in biological sciences. This laboratory provides a visual opportunity to learn human anatomy through various tools, including skeletons, organ models, pathology specimens, virtual dissection, and histology slides. Lab modules are organized by body region.
Co-enrollment with BIOSC 0041 is required. CREQ: BIOSC 0041
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This research-focused first-semester introductory biology lab uses real research projects to introduce biology as an experimental science. Students learn current laboratory techniques through an inquiry-based project or set of projects throughout the semester. Experiments can focus on genetics, molecular biology, evolution, and ecology. Topic for each section is listed under Meeting Information.
PREQ: BIOSC 0150 or 0155 or 0715 or 0170 or 0190 or BIOL 0101 or 0110 (MIN GRADE: 'C' for all courses listed) or CREQ: BIOENG 1070
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This research-focused second-semester introductory biology lab uses real research projects to introduce biology as an experimental science. Students learn current laboratory techniques through an inquiry-based project or set of projects throughout the semester. Experiments can focus on genetics, molecular biology, evolution, and ecology. Topic for each section is listed under Meeting Information.
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PREQ: (BIOSC 0050 or 0057 or 0058 or 0070 or 0190 or BIOL 0101 or 0111) and CREQ: (BIOSC 0160 or 0180 or 0165 or 0716 or BIOL 0102 or 0120) or (BIOENG 1071 or 1072). Min Grade C
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This course is intended for students who have not had high school biology in the past five years to prepare them for taking Foundations of Biology 1 (BIOSC 0150) and 2 (BIOSC 0160). The lecture will cover a subset of topics from Foundations of Biology 1 and 2, including a discussion of basic chemistry used in biology, cell biology including mitosis and meiosis, an introduction to genetics and molecular biology. The weekly recitations will explore topics covered in lecture in more depth and integrate problem solving and study skills. Some laboratory exercises may also be included in the recitation period to re-enforce the lecture topics by giving students the opportunity to investigate the experimental aspect of biology. The laboratory exercises and assignments will focus on data analysis, problem-solving and writing skills.
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This introductory course in biology is divided into two parts. The first part covers the cellular basis of life including a discussion of simple chemistry; cells as units of structure and function; and energy transformations. The second part includes an examination of those functions common to all organisms such as nutrition, gas and fluid transport, and hormonal and neuronal control. Throughout, the emphasis is on the mechanisms used to accomplish these basic functions.
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This introductory course covers the basic principles of genetics, evolution, and ecology. Emphasis will be placed on the experimental and observational basis for our knowledge of these subjects.
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This course will cover the cell cycle, DNA replication, transcription, translation, molecular biology, biotechnology, genomics and bioinformatics, plant development, and animal development. The experimental basis supporting our understanding of these processes will be introduced.
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This course is designed for those students who intend to take chemistry 0110 and 0120, but whose science and mathematical backgrounds are judged by their advisors to be relatively weak. The course emphasizes stoichiometry (chemical calculations), chemical equations, gas laws, elementary atomic structure and periodic properties of elements.
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Chemistry 0110 and 0120 comprise a two-term introduction to the fundamental properties of matter. The courses emphasize applications to industrial and environmental chemistry and biochemistry. CHEM 0110 covers stoichiometry, the properties of solids, liquids and gases, thermochemistry and the electronic structure of atoms and molecules.
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Chemistry 0110 and 0120 comprise a two-term introduction to the fundamental properties of matter. The courses emphasize applications to industrial and environmental chemistry and biochemistry. CHEM 0110 covers stoichiometry, the properties of solids, liquids and gases, thermochemistry and the electronic structure of atoms and molecules.
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