Liberal Arts and Sciences: Life Sciences Major
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Regardless of the majors they choose, all students participate in the Core Program, a characteristic feature of the Freiburg LAS degree. Focusing on current global challenges, it merges the students’ training in personal skills, research methods, and general epistemology into a comprehensive framework that has social applicability, intellectual depth, and personal relevance. The Life Sciences comprise a variety of disciplines ranging from botany to zoology; these include biochemistry, cell biology, physiology, neurosciences, the behavioral and cognitive sciences, as well as biotechnology and bioengineering. The large variety of subjects within this interdisciplinary field requires a focus for the Life Sciences major curriculum. At the University College Freiburg, this focus is the human being. All courses offered in the major will relate to the human being and its condition; its interaction with and relation to the physical environment and especially to other human beings. Specifically, the Life Sciences major explores questions about the structure and function of the human body and the human mind, the interaction with the environment, and also the interface between biological and technical systems. To this end, we consider the human being as a research subject as well as the subject of research. The major’s epistemological approach emphasizes the scientific method as the currently dominant way of knowledge acquisition in the sciences. The curriculum thus includes courses that familiarize students with observational and experimental methods and enables them to conduct a first research project in the sciences. The major also purposes to provide a broader perspective on the Life Sciences themselves and their role in society, politics, and culture. Within the context of the college, this approach provides the opportunity for joint, interdisciplinary courses and projects with the other majors. Students graduating from the Liberal Arts and Sciences program in the major of Life Sciences have completed a bachelor thesis in the field and are awarded the degree ‘Bachelor of Science’. This formally enables them to apply to a variety of Master’s programs in the natural and behavioral sciences in Germany and abroad. Depending on their particular interest and additional requirements set by the aspired Master’s program, students are encouraged to choose courses in the modules Advanced Life Sciences, Life Science Specialization, and Electives that fit with their further academic career plans. The students are expected to personally take responsibility for these plans, however, are supported and advised in their course selection by the course coordinator.
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Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
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