Dear Cal State Fullerton Employer:
Thank you for considering graduates from the
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (CNSM)
for internships or for full or part-time positions with your organization.
We are proud of our graduates and believe that we have prepared them well for
professional careers in the sciences and mathematics. We have a long history of
providing our students with hands-on, laboratory and field-based experiences
where our students not only learn concepts but put these concepts into
practice. A typical graduate of our science departments will have completed
between 500 and 1,000 hours of laboratory or fieldwork. We emphasize
inquiry-based learning in our programs and work to ensure that our students
develop the needed critical thinking skills to excel in the professional
workplace. Our students also receive extensive training in communicating their
work, orally and in writing. We encourage our undergraduates to work on real
world research problems and each semester more than 300 of them can be found
working side-by-side with faculty mentors in the laboratory or field. Our motto
is "Exploration by Inquiry and Learning Through Discovery".
Graduates from our programs in Biological Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Geological Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics:
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Understand the basic concepts and principles of science and mathematics
- Are
experienced in working collectively and collaboratively to solve problems
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Communicate both orally and in writing with clarity, precision, and confidence
- Are
adept at using computers to do word processing, prepare spreadsheets and
graphs, and use presentation software
- Possess skills in information
retrieval using library resources and the Internet
- Have extensive
laboratory/workshop/field experience where they utilize the scientific method
to ask questions, formulate hypotheses, design experiments, conduct
experiments, and analyze data
- Appreciate diverse cultures as a result of
working side by side with many people in collaborative efforts in the classroom
and laboratory and on research projects
- In many instances have had the
opportunity to work individually with faculty in conducting research and
independent projects. In addition to the attributes of all CNSM students, these
students generate original data and contribute to the research knowledge base
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Have had the opportunity to work with very modern, sophisticated equipment
including advanced computer hardware and software I am confident that you will
find the graduates of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics well
prepared for today's job market.
Sincerely,
Steven N. Murray
Dean College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics