REQUIREMENTS FOR
BIOLOGY MAJORS
Biology, the study of living organisms and life processes, is the most all-encompassing of the sciences. Understanding basic life processes requires integrating many areas of study. We want you to be able to use science effectively. That's the main reason why we have created an individual and group investigative laboratory as part of the first two science courses. You will develop a real sense of all the planning, the work, the frustration, the excitement, the reality of doing science.
Intermediate courses in biology continue to be laboratory-centered and inductive. You will learn to use your investigative projects to engage in the more complex work of making relationships and perceiving patterns.
As an advanced student, you will participate more and more as a professional in both course settings and off-campus internships. As you delve more and more deeply into your chosen profession, you will refine your own code of ethics. Required internships provide you the dual opportunity to participate in high-level research projects and to explore a variety of career alternatives.
REQUIRED SCIENCE COURSES
| 1st Year
| 2nd Year
| 3rd Year
| 4th Year
| SC 119
| BI 251
| BI 325
| BI 341
| SC 120
| BI 221 or BI 222
| BI 383
| BI 491
| MT 123
| BI 231
| BI 361
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ALSO REQUIRED
| One 200 Level Chemistry Course
| Physics 231 and 232
| MT 256 or PSY 256
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ELECTIVE COURSES - Take at Least 2
COURSE #
TITLE
BI 300 series
Advanced Topics
BI 328
Biochemistry
BI 338
Physiological Mechanisms of Disease
BI 425
Molecular Biology
BI 452
Immunology
BI 441
Animal Behavior
BI 443
Chronobiology
BI 483
Second Internship
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Last update: 1/07 by Rebecca Burton, Dept. of Biology, Alverno College.