Williamson Jr. Sr. High School
ACE courses offered 2024-25
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The modern aspects and techniques of biology will be emphasized. BIOL 1510 will cover
scientific methodology, biochemistry, cell structure and physiology, genetic mechanisms,
plant structure and physiology, taxonomy, and bacterial, protist, fungal, and plant
diversity.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences.
Credits: 4
Emphasizes the modern aspects of biology and its techniques. Includes evolution, animal
diversity, human and animal anatomy/physiology, animal behavior, reproduction and
development, and ecology. Laboratory requires dissection of a preserved fetal pig
and various vertebrate organs, as well as the use of living invertebrates and fish.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Natural Sciences and Critical Thinking.
Credits: 4
An intuitive approach to statistics. Analysis and description of numerical data using
frequency distributions, histograms and measures of central tendency and dispersion,
elementary theory of probability with applications of binomial and normal probability
distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, chi-square,
linear regression, and correlation.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4
The first semester of differential and integral single variable calculus. Basic theory
using algebraic and trigonometric function and applications are covered concurrently.
Topics include limits, derivatives, considered algebraically and graphically, differentials
and their use as approximations, the indefinite and definite integrals with applications
to areas, volumes, surface area, arc length, moments and center of mass.
Cannot receive credit for this course and MATH 1510-1520.
Meets SUNY General Education requirement in Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning.
Credits: 4
