General Science

Acclimatizes new Evangel students to the University. As such, it serves as an intellectual and practical orientation to the challenges and opportunities of the University life and learning. Students are introduced to Evangel’s Christ-centered, integrational, exploratory, and global ethos. They build relationships with departmental contexts as well as across the campus. They are encouraged to understand that they are being prepared not only for a career but for life.

Introduces the physical science behind the processes and materials involved in the creation of the earth's crust and its soil. Topics include minerals, rock types, weathering, erosion, soil characterization, perturbation, mapping, horizonation, and soil classification. May be used to meet the Core Curriculum options.

Introduces topics in geology, meteorology, and astronomy. Geology topics include rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, building and shaping of Earth’s surfaces, and geologic dating. Astronomy topics include the Universe, components of Earth’s solar system, and the effects of Earth’s movement in space. Meteorology topics include Earth’s atmosphere, weather and climate, and Earth’s water structures and cycles. Three lecture hours (3 credits) or three lecture hours with 2 hours of lab per week (additional 1 credit for lab). May be used to meet the Core Curriculum.

Accompanies GSCI 113 as the laboratory component.

Studies motion and energy, the basic ideas of electricity, the phenomena of light and radiation, elementary thermodynamics, and the structure of matter in terms of atoms and molecules and their nature. May be used to meet the Core Curriculum options.

Introduces student to criminalistics which explores the history and scope of forensic science. Criminalistics is the application of science to those criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system. The scope of this course includes discovery at a crime scene and the forensic analysis of physical and biological evidence. Laboratory activities will give students the opportunity to demonstrate forensic science techniques presented in lecture. Three lecture hours (3 credits) with additional 2 hours (1 credit) of lab per week.

Accompanies GSCI 220 as laboratory component.  2 hours per week.

Available as needed.

Available as needed. Topics selected from specialized areas of science not otherwise offered.