UMBC Summer & Winter Blog
Earn Arts and Humanities GEP as you enter the minds of Philosophers such as John Stuart Mill or Immanuel Kant and discover their moral inquiries: What is right and wrong? How should we live? When is it right (if ever) to lie, kill other people, or eat animals? Is the good of the group or the good of the […]
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Register for PHIL 248: Introduction to Scientific Reasoning and discover what guides your judgement and how you reason. How do you decide on a course of action? What logical process do you take to form a conclusion? In PHIL 248, students discuss several fascinating issues, including deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and the justification of inductive inferences, examples of inductive reasoning, the nature of science and its […]
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From crawling to walking, cooing to talking, child development has become a popular area of study that is still revealing new discoveries every day. Imagine being able to enter the mind of a child and see the world through their eyes. In PSYC 200: Child Developmental Psychology students study age-related cognitive, social and emotional behavior, focusing on theories of development during infancy […]
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This January, fulfill your Science Plus Lab general education requirement (GEP) requirement with BIOL 109: Life – Introduction to Modern Biology and discover the basic biological concepts and components of nature. This is a lab-driven course in which students take a more hands-on approach to learn about the nature of DNA, heredity, human genetics, and the process of mutation. This course also […]
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This January, complete your Science (non-lab), Science (plus lab) or Math GEP requirements. Talk with your academic adviser about what options are the best for you. STAT 121 TuTh 6:30pm – 8:30pm (hybrid) STAT 121 introduces students to the fundamental statistical methods common to social science applications. Examine topics ranging from descriptive statistics, elementary probability theory, concepts of sampling and […]
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