Courses in the Scientific Inquiry domain are designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn the methods of modern science and its impact in understanding the world around us. Courses are designed to help students develop a more complete perspective about science and the scientific process, including: an understanding of the major principles guiding modern scientific thought; a comprehension of the varying approaches and aspects of science; an appreciation of the connection among the sciences and the fundamental role of mathematics in practicing science; an awareness of the roles and limitations of theories and models in interpreting, understanding, and predicting natural phenomena; and a realization of how these theories and models change or are supplanted as our knowledge increases.

The Mathematical and Technological Literacy sequence (or test placement out of one or both courses) is a prerequisite for all courses in the Scientific Inquiry domain. Generally, students complete three Scientific Inquiry courses; one with a laboratory component, one with a quantitative component, and a Scientific Inquiry elective course. Courses listed as Laboratory/Quantitative may fulfill either the laboratory or quantitative requirement, but not both. Since students who complete ISP 120 and ISP 121 for their Mathematical and Technological Literacy requirement may reduce by one the number of Domain Area requirements, be advised that if the course reduction is taken from the SI Domain Area, the student must still complete the laboratory requirement.   
 
Students may use the full year-long sequences in biology (BIO 101, 102, and  103) , chemistry (CHE 111, 113, and 115 OR CHE 171, 173, or 175), or physics (PHY 150, 151, and 152 OR PHY 155 and 156) to fulfill this requirement.  Otherwise, at most two courses can come from the same department or program.
  
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: LABORATORY/QUANTITATIVE 

ART
ART 223            Light, Color, and Photography
ART 295            Art and Geometry
 
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BIO 101            General Biology I
BIO 102            General Biology II
BIO 161            Infectious Diseases and Immunity with Lab
BIO 166            Intro to Plant Biology with Lab
BIO 256            Principles of Biology
BIO 257            Avian Biology and Behavior
BIO 258            The Sun in the Church: Solar Observations from Rome to the Renaissance
 
CHEMISTRY
CHE 111           General and Analytical Chemistry I
CHE 113           General and Analytical Chemistry II
CHE 115           General and Analytical Chemistry III
CHE 131           General Chemistry I
CHE 133           General Chemistry II

COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION
GPH 259           Design Geometry  

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
ENV 102           Introduction to Environmental Science
ENV 115           Environmental Geology
ENV 224           The Environment of the Chicago River Watershed
ENV 270           Tropical Biology and Conservation 
 
PHYSICS
PHY 110           Basic Electronics
PHY 150           General Physics I
PHY 151           General Physics II
PHY 152           General Physics III
PHY 155           General Physics I
PHY 156           General Physics II
PHY 170           University Physics I
PHY 171           University Physics II
PHY 172           University Physics III
PHY 206           Sound and Acoustics
PHY 223           Light, Color, and Photography
PHY 232           Introduction to Digital Electronics
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: LABORATORY 
 
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANT 120            The Science of Archaeology
 
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BIO 103            General Biology III
BIO 155            Introduction to Biology
BIO 156            Food: Fuel for Life
BIO 160            Marine Biology
BIO 202            Mammalian Physiology
BIO 239            The Brain: Biology and Behavior
 
CHEMISTRY
CHE 101           Exploring Matter
CHE 103           Environmental Chemistry
CHE 105           Exploring Nutrients/Science of Nutrition
CHE 107           Proteins and their Genes
CHE 109           Forensic Chemistry
 
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENV 117           The Earth Through Time
 
NURSING
NSG 230           Women’s Health: The Physical Self

PHYSICS
PHY 114           Exploring Other Worlds
PHY 200           Light and Atoms
 
WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES
WMS 230         Women’s Health: The Physical Self 

SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BIO 203            Inheritance in Humans
BIO 204            Vertebrates: Diversity and Evolution
BIO 212            Medical Tests and Trials
BIO 224            How the Human Body Works

CHEMISTRY
CHE 102           Atoms and Molecules
CHE 104           Chemicals, Drugs and Living Systems
CHE 106           Geochemistry
 
COMPUTER SCIENCE
CSC 231           Basic Computation for Biology
CSC 239           Personal Computing
CSC 250           Computers and Human Intelligence
 
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
ENV 101           Introduction to Environmental Science 
 
GEOGRAPHY
GEO 225           Introduction to Weather and Climate
GEO 241           Computer Cartography
GEO 242           Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GEO 243           Remote Sensing
 
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
HCI 201            Multimedia and the World Wide Web
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
IT 223               Data Analysis 
 
MATHEMATICS
MAT 147           Calculus with Integrated Precalculus I
MAT 148           Calculus with Integrated Precalculus II
MAT 149           Calculus with Integrated Precalculus III
MAT 150           Calculus
MAT 151           Calculus II
MAT 152           Calculus III
MAT 160           Calculus for Mathematics and Science Majors I
MAT 161           Calculus for Mathematics and Science Majors II
MAT 162           Calculus for Mathematics and Science Majors III
MAT 170           ProMath Calculus for Mathematics and Science Majors I
MAT 171           ProMath Calculus for Mathematics and Science Majors II
MAT 172           ProMath Calculus for Mathematics and Science Majors III
 
NURSING
NSG 200           Health and Nutrition
 
PHYSICS
PHY 120           How Things Work
PHY 225           Introduction to Weather and Climate
PSY 236           The Science of Digital Audio
 
PSYCHOLOGY
PSY 241            Research Methods I
 
SOCIOLOGY
SOC 224           Introduction to Statistical Reasoning

SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: ELECTIVE 
 
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BIO 115            Introduction to Biology
BIO 118            Marine Biology
BIO 121            Infectious Diseases and Immunity
BIO 122            Introduction to Paleobiology
BIO 206            Brain and Behavior
BIO 208            Stress, Hormones, and the Nervous System

CHEMISTRY
CHE 100           Our Chemical World
 
COMPUTER SCIENCE
CSC 200           Survey of Computing
CSC 210           Introduction to Computing
CSC 211           Programming in Java I
CSC 212           Programming in Java II
CSC 233           Codes and Ciphers
CSC 235           Problem Solving
CSC 261           Programming Languages I: C/C++
CSC 262           Programming Languages II: C/C++
 
E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY
ECT 250            Survey of e-commerce Technology
 
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
ENV 116           Geology of the Environment
ENV 200           Cities and the Environment
ENV 202           Resources, Population and the Environment
ENV 204           Energy and the Environment
 
GEOGRAPHY
GEO 101           Earth’s Physical Landscape
GEO 210           Environmental Conservation
 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
IT 130               The Internet and the Web
IT 236               User Interface Development
IT 240               Introduction to Desktop Databases
IT 263               Applied Networks and Security
 
PHYSICS
PHY 104           The Sun and its Planets
PHY 204           Frontiers of the Universe
PHY 205           Einstein’s Peculiar Ideas
PHY 220           The Dynamic Ocean
 
TELECOMMUNICATION AND DATA SYSTEMS
TDC 361           Basic Communication Systems