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Natural Sciences Inquiry Classes

»Natural Sciences Inquiry Classes

This page lists all the classes that you can take to fulfill the Natural Sciences Inquiry at Chapman University. The Natural Sciences Inquiry: is part of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Focus, a General Education requirement at Chapman; is designed to introduce you to topics in the sciences and give you the opportunity to engage in scientific exploration, and requires you to take one class in total.

  • BIOL 102 Forensics
  • BIOL 123 Beyond Jurassic World: The Science of DNA and Dinosaurs
  • BIOL 145 Intro to Applications in Computational Science
  • BIOL 156 Hormones and Society
  • BIOL 204 From Molecules to Cells: Evolution of Life on Earth (Gen Biol I)
  • BIOL 205 Evolution and Diversity of Multicellular Organisms (Gen Biol II)
  • CHEM 101 Chemistry of Life In Living and Nonliving Systems
  • CHEM 103 Chemistry of Health
  • CHEM 105 Chemistry of Environmental Issues
  • CHEM 140 General Chemistry I
  • CHEM 150 General Chemistry II
  • ENV 101 Introduction to Environmental Science
  • ENV 103 Introduction to Earth Systems
  • ENV 111 Physical Geology
  • ENV 112 Introduction to Hazards and Global and Environmental Change
  • ENV 224 Introduction to Restoration Ecology
  • ENV 226 Environmental Health and Pollution: From Toxic Chemicals to Climate Change
  • ENV 227 Darwin and the Galapagos
  • ENV 231 Observing Earth from Above: Using NASA Satellite Data for Real-Time Environmental Monitoring
  • ENV 234 The Energy Problem
  • FSN 120 Introduction to Food Science
  • FSN 170 Nutrition and Human Physiology
  • FSN 200 Nutrition for Life
  • HON 207 Darwin's Evolutionary Theory: the Science and the Controversy
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  • HON 286 Origins
  • HON 310 Experiencing Forms and Colors: Goethe’s Approach to Science
  • HON 319 Dinosaurs: In Science and Media
  • HON 374 Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Applications
  • HON 376 Sustainability in an Unsustainably Structured World
  • PHIL 351 Philosophy of Quantum Theory
  • PHIL 365 Philosophy and Neuroscience of Free Will
  • PHYS 101 General Physics I
  • PHYS 102 General Physics II
  • PHYS 107 General Physics for the Life Sciences I, Lecture and Laboratory
  • PHYS 108 General Physics for the Life Sciences II, Lecture and Laboratory
  • PHYS 117 Beauty of Physics
  • PHYS 145 Introduction to Applications in Computational Science

Natural Sciences Inquiry Learning Outcome


Students engage in scientific investigation to explore the knowledge produced by scientific processes.

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