BIO 1040 is a non-majors laboratory that fulfills the general education laboratory requirement. Students explore key elements of the scientific process, including hypothesis testing, scientific rigor, statistical significance, and peer review. Students explore basic attributes of various biological systems at a variety of scales. BIO 1040 must be taken concurrently with or following successful completion of BIO 1030 or BIO 1050.
BIO 1040 was approved in 2021 after the deadline for submitting a CMF request had passed and was offered for the first time F 21.