The world is a complex place governed by laws of nature as well as the laws of politics and economics. The Science Department is dedicated to enriching students’ understanding of the natural world and enabling students to have a more positive interaction with their environment. It is our fond hope that a Branson education will encourage students to pursue the study of nature while making deep and wise impacts on the occupants of this Earth, our only home. Additional departmental goals include:
- Developing in students the habits of intelligent inquiry, thoughtful research, organized experimentation, and critical analysis, including the ability to express scientific ideas clearly, interpret data, and organize a diverse body of material into a coherent whole.
- Encouraging students to use these acquired skills in other academic disciplines and in everyday life.
- Fostering in students a spirit of cooperative learning.
- Developing students' enthusiasm for and confidence in all of science so as to maximize their potential for excellence in any future scientific endeavor.
- Helping students gain perspective on, and understanding of, the natural world and the students’ role in it.
- Helping to develop in students a sense of the absurd.
- Encouraging students to develop an open, yet critical mind so that they can distinguish the wonders of real science from the wishful thinking of pseudoscience.
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