The individual units in the Department share the following goals:

• to enable students, through fulfillment of the University requirements, to understand the nature of the universe and the world around them;
• to provide areas of concentrated study for students who contemplate careers as professionals in the sciences;?
• to give students well-balanced training in the application of scientific method, techniques, and mathematics to solve contemporary problems;
• to prepare students for admission to schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, forensic science, and engineering, as well as graduate schools in the sciences and engineering.