{"id":10061,"date":"2025-06-18T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/?page_id=10061"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:13:45","slug":"scientific-inquiry-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/hub-courses\/scientific-inquiry-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Inquiry I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientific Inquiry I falls under the Scientific and Social Inquiry Capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientific literacy\u2014both a basic understanding of major concepts in the natural sciences and a grasp of how scientific knowledge is produced and validated\u2014is essential to responsible citizenship and personal autonomy.<\/p>\n

Many of the most vexing problems facing the contemporary world, from the global challenge of climate change to intimate decisions about our own health, demand the capacity to evaluate scientific claims, assess the strengths and weaknesses of prevailing theories, and discriminate between conflicting data and conclusions. These outcomes foster the ability to understand scientific ideas, as well as the skills necessary to formulate working hypotheses, design experimental tests of these hypotheses, and evaluate experimental data.<\/p>\n

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  1. Students will identify and apply major concepts used in the natural sciences to explain and quantify the workings of the physical world. This will include an introduction to the way that scientists explain complex systems such as living organisms, the Earth, or the Universe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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