UPCO's Living Environment: An Activity-oriented Biology Course

By: Lorraine Godlewski

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Synopsis: Biology is the name of the science that studies living things and their relationship to their environment. You should have a basic scientific knowledge, called scientific literacy, of your living and nonliving environment because scientific literacy involves internalizing a scientific critical attitude that can be applied to your life. It will help you to be better informed when making important decisions about your everyday life, particularly in relation to your health, and to issues concerning commercial and technological claims concerning the environment. Understanding the scientific view of the natural world is an essential part your personal, societal, and ethical decision making. The study of the living environment will also help you understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and the living environment and to recognize the historical development of ideas in science.