Course Objectives:

• Pose scientific questions and create experiments to answer scientific questions.
• Design experiments to reduce systematic and random errors.
• Use statistics to interpret experimental results.
• Use probes and computers to gather and analyze data.
• Treat human subjects in an ethical fashion.
• Apply safe laboratory procedures.
• Create mathematical models of scientific phenomena.
• Find and read articles in the scientific literature.
• Apply scientific arguments in matters of social importance.
• Write scientific papers.
• Review scientific papers.
• Give oral presentations of scientific work