Courses
This listing includes all courses taught by the biology department, as well as courses taught by other departments that may be accepted for credit towards the biology major. Separate listings for Fall, Spring and Summer courses are available. A complete listing of course descriptions is also available. You may find the Advise-O-Matic and helpful in planning your schedule, along with the Course Search page that allows you to find classes that meet certain criteria. For a current course schedule, see the Registrar's Class Schedule Search.
A description of each course, including prerequisites, may be found by clicking on the course number. The 
symbol gives access to course web pages when available.
| Number | Title | Credits | Instructor | Offered | Satisfies* | |||
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| 100-level courses are designed for non-majors and may not be used for credit towards the Biology major. | ||||||||
| BIO 141 | Charles Darwin: Life & Impact | 3 | Burk | I (AY) | ||||
| BIO 149 | Human Biology | 3 | Shibata | II | ||||
| BIO 150 | Biotechnology and Society | 3 | van Dijk | II | ||||
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Bio 211 and 212 are prerequisites for all upper-level courses. These two courses may be taken in either order. |
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| BIO 211 | | General Biology: Molecular & Cellular | 4 | Reedy | I, S | |||
| BIO 212 | | General Biology: Organismal & Population | 4 | Burk | II, S | |||
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All 300-level courses and above are "upper-level". |
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| BIO 317 | | Genetics | 3 | Brockhouse/Cho | I, II, S (OD) | Cell | ||
| BIO 318 | Genetics Laboratory | 1 | Brockhouse | II | Lab | |||
| BIO 333 | Vertebrate Comparative Anatomy | 4 | Platz | I, S (OD) | Lab, Org | |||
| BIO 335 | Zoology | 4 | Schalles | II | Lab, Org | |||
| BIO 341 | | General Botany | 4 | Vinton | II | Lab, Org | ||
| BIO 351 | | Microbiology | 4 | van Dijk | I | Lab, Cell | ||
| BIO 362 | | Cell Structure and Function | 3 | Austerberry/Reedy | I | Cell | ||
| BIO 385 | | Ecology, Geography and Health of Lakes | 4 | Schalles | PS (AY) | CW, Lab, Pop | ||
| BIO 390 | | Environmental Science | 3 | Staff | II | Pop | ||
| BIO 401 | | Biometry | 4 | Cullum | II | Lab | ||
| BIO 417 | Molecular Biology | 3 | Austerberry | I, S (OD) | Cell | |||
| BIO 419 | | Molecular Biology Laboratory | 2 | Austerberry | II | CW, Lab | ||
| BIO 420 | Cytogenetics | 4 | Brockhouse | I | Lab, Cell | |||
| BIO 425 | Development of Biological Thought | 3 | Brockhouse | PS | ||||
| BIO 432 | | Introduction to Immunology | 3 | Shibata | I | Cell | ||
| BIO 435 | Field Biology in the Southeastern United States | 4 | Schalles | PS (AY) | Lab, Pop | |||
| BIO 440 | | Field Biology of the Desert Southwest | 4 | Platz | PS | CW, Lab, Pop | ||
| BIO 449 | | Animal Physiology | 3 | Cullum/Fassbinder-Orth | I, II | Org | ||
| BIO 450 | | Animal Physiology Laboratory | 1 | Cullum/Fassbinder-Orth | I | Lab | ||
| BIO 467 | | Developmental Biology | 4 | Reedy | II | Lab, Org | ||
| BIO 481 | | Terrestrial Ecology | 4 | Vinton | I, S (OD) | CW, Lab, Pop | ||
| BIO 483 | Vertebrate Natural History | 3 | Platz | II, S (OD) | Pop | |||
| BIO 484 | Vertebrate Natural History Laboratory | 1 | Platz | II, S (OD) | Lab | |||
| BIO 485 | Marine and Freshwater Ecology | 3 | Schalles | I | Pop | |||
| BIO 486 | Freshwater Ecology Laboratory | 1 | Schalles | I | Lab | |||
| BIO 487 | Marine Ecology Laboratory | 1 | Schalles | II | CW, Lab | |||
| BIO 490 | Seminar in Undergraduate Biology Instruction | 1 | Staff | I | Lab† | |||
| BIO 493 | Directed Independent Readings | 3 | Staff | I, II, S | ||||
| BIO 495 | Directed Independent Study | 3 | Staff | I, II, S | ||||
| BIO 497 | Directed Independent Research | 3 | Staff | I, II, S | ||||
| BIO 517 | Current Topics in Genetics | 3 | Brockhouse/Cho | I | CW, Cell | |||
| BIO 523 | Environmental Toxicology | 3 | Schalles | I (AY) | Pop | |||
| BIO 532 | | Current Topics in Cellular and Molecular Biology | 3 | Austerberry & Reedy | II | CW, Cell | ||
| BIO 539 | Ecology of Zoonotic Diseases | 3 | Fassbinder-Orth | I | CW, Pop | |||
| BIO 549 | | Environmental Physiology | 3 | Cullum | II | CW, Org | ||
| BIO 551 | Current Topics in Microbiology | 3 | van Dijk | II | CW, Cell | |||
| BIO 559 | Special Topics in Physiology | 3 | Cullum | II | CW, Org | |||
| BIO 561 | Entomology | 4 | Burk | I (AY) | Lab, Pop | |||
| BIO 562 | Introduction to Neurobiology | 3 | Shibata | I | Cell or Org | |||
| BIO 563 | Introduction to Neurobiology Laboratory | 2 | Shibata | I | CW, Lab | |||
| BIO 567 | Cellular And Developmental Neuroscience | 3 | Shibata | II | Cell | |||
| BIO 571 | Animal Behavior | 3 | Burk | I, S | Org | |||
| BIO 572 | Animal Behavior Laboratory | 2 | Burk | II | CW, Lab | |||
| BIO 580 | Current Topics in Ecology | 3 | Vinton | CW, Pop | ||||
| BIO 581 | Evolution | 4 | Platz | I, S (OD) | Lab, Pop | |||
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One of the following courses from other departments may, upon petition, be applied towards the requirements for the Biology major. Biology minors must take all courses from the Biology Department. |
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| BMS 521 | Principles of Biochemistry | 4 | ||||||
| CHM 381 | Fundamentals of Biochemistry | 3 | ||||||
| CHM 523 | Bioorganic Chemistry | 3 | ||||||
| PHY 353 | Introduction to Biological Physics | 3 | ||||||
- CW - satisfies one of the college's Certified Writing requirements
- Lab - satisfies one of the Biology major's laboratory requirements
- Cell - counts as a molecular/cellular course for the Biology major's area of study requirement
- Org - counts as an organismal course
- Pop - counts as a population/ecology/evolution course
Note - Courses listing two areas of study can count as one or the other, not both.
†BIO 490 counts as one laboratory course if taken twice.
Last modified: July 18, 2008
