Feb 08, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

MSED 340 - Fundamental Concepts in Science


Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: Yes Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No
4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
Prerequisites: This course is a professional education requirement for all secondary science education majors. Students should be admitted to the premethods phase of the educational program.

This laboratory-based course provides deeper investigations into fundamental, unifying concepts in science through inquiry methods employing an integrated approach. Content includes energy, form and function, homeostasis and equilibrium, change and evolution, and historical perspectives. An independent research project is required.