This program is for students who wish to pursue teaching Biology and General Science in grades 7-12. The course content includes science and education courses that students need during the first two years of a bachelor's degree program in Biology Education. As part of this degree program, students must complete the requirements of the Ohio Transfer 36 in order to graduate.
This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: The first course of a two-semester university-parallel sequence for biology and science majors. Topics include scientific method; chemical and biochemical foundations; cell structure, function and reproduction; cellular respiration, photosynthesis, Mendelian genetics, chromosomal genetics, molecular genetics, protein synthesis, gene regulation, genomes, viruses and biotechnology. Three classroom, six lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: MAT 0100
Prerequisites: MAT 0100 or MAT 0600
Description: A university-parallel course in chemistry for the science major. The first half of a comprehensive first-year survey of chemistry. Topics include the basics of matter, atoms and molecules, chemical reactions, bonding, molecular geometry and gases. Students registering for this course should have previously taken high school chemistry or equivalent. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: MAT 0300
Prerequisites: MAT 0300 or MAT 1450 or MAT 1470 or MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 or MAT 2270 or MAT 2280 or MAT 2290
Corequisites: CHE 1251
Corequisites: CHE 1211
Description: This course uses calculus as a tool for modeling applications in the life sciences. Limits, derivatives, and integrals are introduced and applied in this context. Emphasis is placed on qualitative analysis and interpretation.
Notes: Or MAT-1450 Introductory Stats or MAT 2270 Calculus. PREREQ: MAT 1470
Prerequisites: MAT 1470 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)
Description: This course is designed to help new students make a successful transition to Sinclair Community College. Topics include college resources; academic, career and personal services available through Sinclair; learning styles; the learning process; financial responsibility; stress and wellness; and computer literacy through eLearn and library resources.
Notes: Discuss with advisor
Term hours subtotal:
15
Description: The second course of a two-semester university-parallel sequence for biology and science majors. Topics include Darwinian evolution, evolution of populations, origin of species, history of life on Earth, phylogeny and systematics, prokaryotes, protists, plants, fungi, animals and ecology. Three classroom, six lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: BIO 1171
Prerequisites: BIO 1171 or Approval of Department
Description: The second half of a university-parallel course in chemistry for the science or engineering major. Topics include liquids and solids, solutions, chemical reaction kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acid/base chemistry, electrochemistry, representative metals, metalloids and non-metals and organic chemistry. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: CHE 1211
Prerequisites: CHE 1211
Corequisites: CHE 1261
Corequisites: CHE 1221
Description: Introduction to the teaching profession. A variety of experiences to facilitate exploration of the role of school and its relationship to society. The knowledge, skills, dispositions and performances necessary for an individual to become an effective teacher.
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Term hours subtotal:
16
Description: University-parallel course covering topics such as history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.
Term hours subtotal:
3
Description: Fundamental principles, concepts and techniques of genetics. Lab work includes basic methods of genetic research and analysis. Three classroom, two lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: BIO 1111 or BIO 1171
Prerequisites: BIO 1111 or BIO 1171
Corequisites: BIO 2236
Description: Lab for Genetics, including basic methods of genetic research and analysis.
Corequisites: BIO 2235
Description: The study of alkanes, stereochemistry, alkyl halides, organometallic compounds, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic hydrocarbons and spectroscopic methods of organic analysis. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: CHE 1221
Prerequisites: CHE 1221
Corequisites: CHE 2151
Description: Lab for CHE 2111.
Corequisites: CHE 2111
Description: Introduction to the identification, developmental characteristics, foundations, theory, legal issues and intervention strategies for exceptional children and youth across educational and community settings.
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Term hours subtotal:
15
Description: The study of alcohols, ethers, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, derivatives of carboxylic acids, enolates, carbanions, amines, polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic compounds, pericyclic reactions, and polymers. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.
Notes: PREREQ: CHE 2111
Prerequisites: CHE 2111
Corequisites: CHE 2161
Description: Lab for CHE 2121.
Corequisites: CHE 2121
Description: In this course, students will be encouraged to think independently, be expected to argue a point logically, and sharpen their critical thinking skills. More particularly, we will explore the geographies implicit in globalization and specifically think about our connections (and disconnections) to distant places, the uneven geographies of globalization (evident in both processes and outcomes), and how people's actions through social, economic, and political processes, produce and transform place. This course has a particular focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion asking how cultures are shaped by the intersections of a variety of factors (i.e. race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion among others) and providing a space to demonstrate empathy through considering how to understand and interpret others' worldview. The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to thinking geographically through the understanding of how to use maps and the significance of place on identity.
Notes: Any Ohio Transfer Module Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective that is not PSY. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements, from prehistory to the seventeenth century.
Notes: or HIS 1112
Description: Overview of philosophical and ethical dimensions of the environmental crisis, such as environmental politics, animal rights and nonwestern views.
Notes: Any Ohio Transfer Module Arts & Humanities Elective that is not HST. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/
Term hours subtotal:
14