Natural Sciences (NS)

2 courses, minimum 3 credit hours per course. At least one of the courses must have a laboratory.

• AGNR 101* - Introduction to One Health: from Antimicrobial Resistance to Zika with a Side of Thousand Cankers 3 Credit Hours ¹
• ANTH 110* - Introduction to Biological Anthropology 3 Credit Hours ¹
• ANTH 117* - Honors: Introduction to Biological Anthropology 3 Credit Hours ¹
• ASTR 151* - A Journey through the Solar System Lecture 3 Credit Hours ¹
• ASTR 152* - Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Lecture 3 Credit Hours ¹
• ASTR 153* - A Journey through the Solar System Lab 1 Credit Hours
• ASTR 154* - Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Lab 1 Credit Hours
• ASTR 217* - Honors: Introductory Astronomy 4 Credit Hours
• ASTR 218* - Honors: Introductory Astronomy 4 Credit Hours
• BIOL 101* - Introduction to Biology: Cells, Genetics, and Physiology 4 Credit Hours
• BIOL 102* - Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity and Ecology 4 Credit Hours
• BIOL 104* - Biology in the Real World 4 Credit Hours
• BIOL 105* - Parasites, Pathogens, and Pandemics: Infectious Disease and Society 3 Credit Hours ¹
• BIOL 106* - The Living City 3 Credit Hours ¹
• BIOL 113* - Introductory Plant Biology I 3 Credit Hours ¹
• BIOL 114* - Introductory Plant Biology II 3 Credit Hours ¹
• BIOL 115* - Introductory Plant Biology Laboratory 2 Credit Hours (Counts as NS only when taken with BIOL 113*  or BIOL 114*  to create a lab science)
• BIOL 150* - Organismal and Ecological Biology 3 Credit Hours ¹
• BIOL 159* - Skills of Biological Investigation 2 Credit Hours (Counts as NS only when taken with BIOL 150* , BIOL 158* [Inactive], BIOL 160* , or BIOL 168* [Inactive] to create a lab science)
• BIOL 160* - Cellular and Molecular Biology 3 Credit Hours ¹
• CHEM 102* - Principles of Chemistry 3 Credit Hours (lecture, would satisfy lecture/lab with co-requisite CHEM 103* )¹
• CHEM 103* - Principles of Chemistry Laboratory 1 Credit Hours (co-requisite lecture is CHEM 102* )
• CHEM 112* - Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry 3 Credit Hours (lecture, would satisfy lecture/lab with co-requisite CHEM 113* )¹
• CHEM 113* - Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry Laboratory 1 Credit Hours (corequisite lecture is CHEM 112* )
• CHEM 122* - General Chemistry I 3 Credit Hours (lecture, would satisfy lecture/lab with co-requisite CHEM 123* )¹
• CHEM 123* - General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 Credit Hours (corequisite lecture is CHEM 122* )
• CHEM 128* - Honors: General Chemistry I 4 Credit Hours
• CHEM 132* - General Chemistry II 3 Credit Hours (lecture, would satisfy lecture/lab with corequisite CHEM 133* )¹
• CHEM 133* - General Chemistry II Laboratory 1 Credit Hours (corequisite lecture is CHEM 132* )
• CHEM 138* - Honors: General Chemistry II 4 Credit Hours
• EEB 205* - Theory and Methods in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEB 330* - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 330S* - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 100* - Earth, Environment, and People 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 101* - The Dynamic Earth 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 102* - Earth, Life, and Time 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 103* - The Earth’s Environments 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 104* - Exploring the Planets 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 107* - Honors: The Dynamic Earth 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 108* - Honors: Earth, Life, and Time 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 201* - Biodiversity: Past, Present, and Future 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 202* - Earth as an Ecosystem: Modern Problems and Solutions 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 202S* - Earth as an Ecosystem: Modern Problems and Solutions 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 203* - Geology of National Parks 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 205* - Age of the Dinosaurs 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 207* - Honors: Age of the Dinosaurs 4 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 208* - Honors: Earth as an Ecosystem: Modern Problems and Solutions 4 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 210* - Astrobiology: Life, the Universe, and Everything 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 215* - Critical Minerals, Energy, and Society 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 221* - The Science and Cost of Energy 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EEPS 310* - Mineralogy 4 Credit Hours
• EF 142* - Introduction to Physics and Modeling for Engineers II 4 Credit Hours
• EF 151* - Physics for Engineers I 4 Credit Hours
• EF 152* - Physics for Engineers II 4 Credit Hours
• EF 157* - Honors: Physics for Engineers I 4 Credit Hours
• EF 158* - Honors: Physics for Engineers II 4 Credit Hours
• EPP 124* - Coffee: Agronomy, Biology, Culture 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EPP 135* - Eaters of the Dead: Introduction to Forensic Entomology 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EPP 201* - Ecological and Societal Impacts of Insects and Plant Diseases 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EPP 210* - Bugs: Bizarre, Beautiful, and Beneficial 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EPP 234* - Medicines and Drugs from Plants and Microbes 3 Credit Hours ¹
• EPP 313* - Introductory Plant Pathology 3 Credit Hours
• EPP 321* - Introductory Entomology 3 Credit Hours
• EPP 350* - The World of Fungi: Beneficial, Edible, Medicinal, Hallucinogenic, Pathogenic, Toxic, and Deadly 3 Credit Hours ¹
• ESS 130* - Fundamentals of Environmental Science 3 Credit Hours
• FDSC 100* - Science of Food 3 Credit Hours ¹
• FDSC 101* - Science of Food Ingredients 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 131* - Weather, Climate, and Climate Change 4 Credit Hours
• GEOG 132* - Landscapes and Environmental Change 4 Credit Hours
• GEOG 137* - Honors: Weather, Climate, and Climate Change 4 Credit Hours
• GEOG 138* - Honors: Landscapes and Environmental Change 4 Credit Hours
• GEOG 200* - Environmental Issues in National Parks 3 Credit Hours ¹
• GEOG 204* - Understanding Climate Change 3 Credit Hours ¹
• GEOG 205* - Tennessee Tornadoes 3 Credit Hours ¹
• GEOG 331* - Natural Hazards 3 Credit Hours ¹
• HDFS 240* - Human Sexuality 3 Credit Hours ¹
• MICR 210* - Allied Health Microbiology 3 Credit Hours
• MSE 120* - Impact of Materials on Society 3 Credit Hours ¹
• MSE 127* - Honors: Impact of Materials on Society 3 Credit Hours ¹
• NUTR 100* - Introductory Nutrition 3 Credit Hours ¹
• NUTR 272* - Functional Foods and Health 3 Credit Hours ¹
• NUTR 285* - Fundamentals of Human Lactation 3 Credit Hours ¹
• PHYS 101* - How Things Work I 3 Credit Hours ¹
• PHYS 102* - How Things Work II 3 Credit Hours ¹
• PHYS 135* - Introduction to Physics for Physical Science and Mathematics Majors I 4 Credit Hours
• PHYS 136* - Introduction to Physics for Physical Science and Mathematics Majors II 4 Credit Hours
• PHYS 137* - Honors: Fundamentals of Physics for Physics Majors I 5 Credit Hours
• PHYS 138* - Honors: Fundamentals of Physics for Physics Majors II 5 Credit Hours
• PHYS 161* - Elements of Physics for Architects and Interior Design Students 3 Credit Hours ¹
• PHYS 221* - Elements of Physics I 4 Credit Hours
• PHYS 222* - Elements of Physics II 4 Credit Hours
• PHYS 231* - Fundamentals of Physics: Electricity and Magnetism 3 Credit Hours
• PLSC 130* - Art and Science of Living with Plants 3 Credit Hours ¹
• PLSC 250* - World Food and Fiber Plant Production 3 Credit Hours ¹
• PLSC 333* - Plant Physiology and Nutrition 3 Credit Hours ¹
• SNR 250* - Conservation 3 Credit Hours ¹

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  ¹ This is a non-lab course.