Biology Department
Rowena Misayah, M.D.
Chair
Our mission is to provide our students with challenging and stimulating instruction that will cultivate a thorough understanding of biological principles and offer students insights into current issues in the life sciences.
Objectives
- Establish and maintain courses that develop in our students a solid foundation of scientific information, as well as problem-solving and decision-making skills. These skills will enable our students to advance to health-related programs, transfer into baccalaureate programs, and become informed members of the community.
- Provide a classroom environment for student growth and maturity in the areas of oral and written scientific communication, independent and collaborative learning, and critical thinking.
- Provide opportunities for students to utilize current technologies in the classroom.
- Ensure students gain a deeper appreciation of careers that utilize biology as well as the global context of biology and its impact on people’s lives and the environment.
- Provide opportunities to explore and evaluate the ethical and societal impacts of biological knowledge and biotechnologies.
Outcomes
- Students will apply scientific knowledge to quantify observations, interpret and synthesize data in drawing inferences, explore and create ideas, and solve problems in an authentic context.
- Students will effectively communicate scientific knowledge through independent and collaborative learning activities and make appropriate reference to scientific literature to support their work and assertions.
- Students will utilize educational technologies to aid in scientific reasoning, communication, and research.
- Students will evaluate the diversity of careers in biology, the relevance of biology to global and social concerns, and the impact of their actions on the natural environment and community.
- Students will assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems in biology to practice ethical decision-making skills and analyze positions on issues in bioethics.
Faculty and Staff
Faculty Member | Email | Room |
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Hadjiagapiou, Dr. Christos | chadjiagapiou@ccc.edu | 3119 |
Kulisz, Dr. Andre | akulisz@ccc.edu | 3216 |
Misayah, Dr. Rowena | rmisayah@ccc.edu | 3324A |
Nino, Dr. John | jnino5@ccc.edu | 3130 |
Raziuddin, Dr. Syed | sraziuddin1@ccc.edu | 3128 |
Searle, Dr. Jennifer | jsearle1@ccc.edu | 3221 |
Thomas-Hall, Dr. Julienne | jethomas@ccc.edu | 3220 |
Staff
Krystyna Guzy, kguzy@ccc.edu
Elisa Pico, epico@ccc.edu
Kevin Quevedo, kquevedo@ccc.edu, College Lab Assistant II