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Semester: Fall of every year. Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Prerequisite: Designated score on English placement test.
Restrictions: Open only to students in Lyman Briggs School.
Not open to students with credit in: AL 192 or AL 192H or ATL 110 or ATL 120 or ATL 125 or ATL 130 or ATL 135 or ATL 140 or ATL 145 or ATL 150 or ATL 195H or MC 111 or MC 112 or ATL 115
Description: Instruction and practice in expository writing. Paper and report topics drawn from readings in the history, philosophy, and other areas of science and technology.
Course: LBS 144 Biology I: Organismal Biology
Semester: Fall of every year. Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 3 4(3-3)
Restrictions: Open only to students in Lyman Briggs School.
Not open to students with credit in: BS 110
Description: Modern biology at the organismal level of integration. Principles of genetics, evolution, ecology, and organismal diversity as interactive units.
Course: LBS 145 Biology II: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Semester: Fall of every year. Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 5 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 4 5(3-4)
Prerequisite: (LBS 144 or BS 110 or LBS 148H) and (CEM 141 or CEM 151 or concurrently or CEM 181H or concurrently or LBS 171 or concurrently)
Restrictions: Open only to students in Lyman Briggs School.
Not open to students with credit in: BS 111
Description: Modern biology mainly at the cellular level of integration. Principles of cell structure and function are used to explain processes of bioenergetics, protein synthesis, and development.
Course: LBS 171 Principles of Chemistry I - Structure Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Prerequisite: (LBS 117 or concurrently or MTH 116 or concurrently or MTH 132 or concurrently or MTH 133 or concurrently or MTH 152H or concurrently or LBS 118 or concurrently or LBS 119 or concurrently) Corequisite: LBS 171L concurrently
Restrictions: Only open to students in Lyman Briggs School.
Not open to students with credit in: CEM 141 or CEM 151 or CEM 181H
Description: Chemical principles: structure and bonding, periodic properties. Stoichiometry, states of matter. Solutions, acids and bases, equilibria, thermodynamics, and kinetics.
Alias: LBS 165
Course: LBS 171L Introductory Chemistry Laboratory I
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lab Hours: 3 1(0-3)
Corequisite: LBS 171 concurrently
Restrictions: Open only to students in Lyman Briggs School.
Not open to students with credit in: CEM 161 or CEM 185H
Description: Determination of density and molecular weight. Stoichometry. Acid-base titration, redox titration. Reaction kinetics, thermochemistry, Beer's law, freezing point depression, and equilibrium constants.
Alias: LBS 165L
Course: LBS 172 Principles of Chemistry II - Reactivity
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 3(4-0)
Prerequisite: (LBS 171 or CEM 141 or CEM 151 or CEM 181H) and (LBS 171L or CEM 161 or CEM 185H)
Restrictions: Only open to students in Lyman Briggs School
Not open to students with credit in: CEM 142 or CEM 152 or CEM 182H
Description: Spectroscopy, coordination chemistry, solubility and stability constants. Electrochemistry, main group chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Polymers and biochemistry.
Alias: LBS 266
Course: LBS 172L Principles of Chemistry II - Reactivity Laboratory
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 1 Lab Hours: 3 1(0-3)
Prerequisite: (LBS 171 or CEM 141 or CEM 152 or CEM 182H) and (LBS 171L or CEM 161 or CEM 185H) and (LBS 172 or concurrently)
Restrictions: Open only to students in Lyman Briggs School.
Not open to students with credit in: CEM 162 or CEM 186H
Description: Synthesis and characterization of chemical systems.
Alias: LBS 266L
Course: LBS 330 Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Semester: Fall of every year. Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Prerequisite: (LBS 133) and completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions: Open only to students in Lyman Briggs School majors.
Description: Topics in history, sociology, and philosophy of science and technology. Science policy.
Alias: LBS 239
Course: LBS 331 Literature and Science
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Prerequisite: Completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions: Open only to sophomores or juniors or seniors in Lyman Briggs School. Description: Representations of science and technology in texts drawn from science fiction, Gothic, and utopian literature or mainstream writings.
Course: LBS 333 Topics in History of Science
Semester: Fall of every year. Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Reenrollment Information: A student may earn a maximum of 8 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite: Completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions: Open only to juniors or seniors in Lyman Briggs School.
Description: Various themes or periods in physical/biological science. May emphasize patterns of theory development, changes in explanatory aims and standards or interaction of social and cultural factors with scientific ideas, practices, instrumentation or experimentalism.
Course: LBS 334 Science, Technology and Public Policy
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Prerequisite: Completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions: Open only to sophomores or juniors or seniors in Lyman Briggs School. Description: Science and technology in public policy formation considered from the perspectives of the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and technology.
Course: LBS 335 The Natural Environment: Perceptions and Practices
Semester: Spring of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 4 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 4 4(4-0)
Prerequisite: Completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions: Open only to sophomores or juniors or seniors in the American Studies major or in Lyman Briggs School.
Description: American attitudes toward the natural environment and related public and private institutions.
Interdepartmental With: American Studies
Administered By: Lyman Briggs School
Course: LBS 368 Science, Technology and Society
Semester: Fall of every year.
Credits: Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3 3(3-0)
Recommended Background: (LBS 133) or some familiarity with basic concepts and methods in sociology.
Restrictions: Not open to freshmen or sophomores.
Description: Role of science and technology in social change. Values and ethics in contemporary perspectives, controversies, and cases. Science and technology as forms of knowledge. Interdepartmental With: Sociology
Administered By: Sociology
Agribusiness Management
Agricultural Economics
Education and Communication Systems
Arts and Letters
American Studies
Anthropology
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Animal Studies
Agricultural Technology
American Thought and Language
Ag Technology and Systems Management
Building Construction Management
Biosystems Engineering
Biological Science
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Crop and Soil Sciences
Economics
Environmental Economics and Policy
Environmental Engineering
Entomology
Epidemiology
Food Industry Management
Forestry
Food Science
Fisheries and Wildlife
Geography
Geological Sciences
Hospitality Business
Human Environment and Design
Human Nutrition and Foods
Horticulture
History
Integrative Studies in Biological Science
Integrative Studies in Physical Science
Integrative Studies in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Landscape Architecture
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Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Natural Science
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Packaging
Plant Biology
Plant Pathology
Park, Recreation and Tourism Resources
Resource Development
Sociology
Social Science
Urban Planning
Women's Studies
Zoology