- Study Design: Evaluate the existing knowledge base, formulate questions, interpret and analyze data, and draw conclusions.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Use basic mathematics, graphing, statistics, and data science tools to analyze your data.
- Modeling: Recognize scientific models, use models to make inferences and solve problems, and build and evaluate your own models.
- Interdisciplinary Thinking: Integrate concepts from across various science disciplines and from other, non-science, ways of knowing.
- Science in Society: Understand science as a social activity consisting of both objective and subjective elements. Analyze the ethical implications of the process and the outcomes of scientific inquiry.
- Communication: Share ideas clearly and accurately in a way that is appropriate and effective for your intended audience.