The individual units in the Department share the following goals:

  • to enable students, through fulfillment of the University requirements, to understand the nature of the universe and the world around them;
  • to provide areas of concentrated study for students who contemplate careers as professionals in the sciences;?
  • to give students well-balanced training in the application of scientific method, techniques, and mathematics to solve contemporary problems;
  • to prepare students for admission to schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, forensic science, and engineering, as well as graduate schools in the sciences and engineering.