Biola university is a private christian university located in southern california. For over 109 years, biola has stood out as an institution grounded on biblically centered education, intentional spiritual development, and career preparation, where all faculty, staff and students are professing christians. With more than 145 academic programs through its six schools, biola offers degrees ranging from bachelor of arts to doctoral degree.

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The school of arts and sciences aims to teach the connectedness of all knowledge, helping students explore a wide range of disciplines and the contributions that each can make to a student's understanding. From a biblical worldview, we seek to challenge students to explore and develop knowledge, skills, and attributes that will enable them to understand, express, care for, and celebrate god's diverse and complex world; that in it they might seek and humbly serve the kingdom of god. Beyond the classroom, our students learn experientially, connecting their studies to the contexts of life that they might love their neighbors in the places and positions beyond biola where god may lead them. More than granting degrees, we hope to awaken the joys of learning so that the liberal arts might be a lifelong passion. The school of science, technology, and health program description the vision of the school of science, technology and health at biola university is to equip a new generation of ethically thoughtful professionals in the sciences and health care, grounded in a christian worldview, educated in an academically rigorous environment, ready to assume positions of leadership, and able to provide the clear moral vision the world desperately needs. In february 2016, biola university broke ground on the most ambitious building project in its history, the expansive new 91,200 sq. Alton and lydia lim center for science, technology, and health that will serve as the home to the new school of science, technology, and health also formed in 2016. The school is a new consolidation of some of the university's fastest growing, highest demand career opportunities. The building will open in early 2018 and will triple the amount of space devoted to science education at biola enabling students and faculty to study with cutting-edge equipment and in dedicated state-of-the-art laboratories. The school of science, technology, and health serves approximately 1,100 undergraduate students and 45 graduate students in the following 16 majors housed within 6 departments: biology (bios): biological sciences, b. S. ; biological science: secondary education, b. S. ; environmental science, b. S. ; human biology, b. S. Chemistry, physics, and engineering (cpe): biochemistry, b. S. ; chemistry, b. S. ; engineering physics, b. S. ; physical science, b. S. ; physics, b. S. Communication sciences and disorders (csd): speech-language pathology, m. S. ; communication sciences and disorders, b. S. Kinesiology, health, and physical education (khpe): kinesiology, b. S. ; physical education, b. S. Math and computer science (mcs); computer science, b. S. ; mathematics, b. S. Nursing (nurs): nursing, b. S. As highly skilled and technically competent scientists and health care providers, biola graduates will be prepared to enter the workforce or continue their education in graduate or professional schools impacting the world for jesus christ to be employed as health care providers, research scientists, government and corporate scientists, and educators. Students focusing on the biological and environmental sciences at biola acquire the knowledge and develop the skills that will allow them to study and appreciate god's creation at the organismal and bimolecular level, preparing them for a range of health-related careers. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field, focusing on solving problems involving people and the rest of god's creation. The environmental science program provides the platform to specialize in graduate programs involving marine and terrestrial flora and fauna, environmental policy, planning, and regulation, management of state and federal lands, and pollution control and waste management. That scientific platform can also be used by those passionate about helping people through sustainable development, environmental missions, organic agriculture and environmental education. The biological sciences: secondary instruction program at biola u