Natural Sciences for Non-Majors / Minor
Minor Credit Hours: 20
Minors in Natural Sciences may take a Biology class only two times. If a student has not achieved a minimum of a “C” after the second attempt, the student may not repeat the class.
The Biology Department will award 3 hours of credit for the General Education class BIOL 10000 (Introduction to Biology) when students have received a score of 4 or 5 on AP tests. No credit is awarded for major classes based on AP scores.
Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Nursing, and Physics majors may not minor in Natural Sciences.
Degree Requirements
Minor: NATL
I. Choose from the following courses (20)
| CHEM-10500 | Introductory Organic and Biochemistry | 3 |
| CHEM-11000 | General Chemistry 1 | 4 |
| CHEM-11100 | General Chemistry 1 Lab | 1 |
| - | OR | |
| - | any higher numbered chemistry course | |
| PHYS-20000 | College Physics 1 | 4 |
| PHYS-20100 | College Physics 1 Lab | 1 |
| - | OR | |
| - | any higher numbered physics course | |
| BIOL-10100 | Anatomy and Physiology 1 | 4 |
| BIOL-10200 | Anatomy and Physiology 1 Lab | 1 |
| BIOL-10300 | Anatomy and Physiology 2 | 4 |
| BIOL-10400 | Anatomy and Physiology 2 Lab | 1 |
| BIOL-11000 | General Biology 1 | 4 |
| BIOL-11100 | General Biology 1 Lab | 1 |
| - | OR | |
| - | any higher numbered biology course | |
| MATH-12000 | Mathematical Analysis | 4 |
| MATH-20000 | Calculus 1 | 4 |
| - | OR | |
| - | any higher numbered mathematics course | |
| CPSC-20000 | Introduction to Computer Science | 3 |
| - | OR | |
| - | any higher numbered computer science course | |
II. If the student chooses a lecture course that has a laboratory element, the student must also take the laboratory part of the class.
III. For the Natural Sciences minor, a minimum of two 20000 level or above science courses (6-8 credits) must be taken at Lewis University.
IV. Liberal Arts majors who choose to complete the Natural Sciences minor as one of their two required minors must complete two unduplicated upper-division science-based or mathematics-based courses at Lewis University. In order to satisfy the upper-division requirement when this minor is applied to the Liberal Arts major, students who have completed 20 lower-division credit hours in courses listed above may request that two additional upper-division science-based or mathematics-based courses in other departments be approved by the advisor and Dean.