Other Requirements/Offerings

Earning at least a “C” or better in all required BIO/BIOL courses.

Major Requirements

Concentration

The following may be taken as Biology electives:

• Other courses may be taken with the approval of the department Chair.
• Students may not take Biology, Math, Chemistry or Physics for a general elective.

Note: Laboratory courses must be taken during the same semester as lecture for biology, chemistry and physics courses unless approved by the department chair.

Curriculum Map

Notes:

• Candidates that transfer 12 or more hours of college credit are exempt from UNIV 100 UNIVERSITY SUCCESS; however, the student must take 2 hours of general electives to replace the UNIV course.
• Online Graduation Clearance (to be completed during the graduating semester only).

Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze primary scientific literature, interpret results (including graphs, tables, and charts), evaluate, and summarize findings, and present their analysis in written or oral form.
• Students will be able to compare the biotic and abiotic factors that shape major ecosystems and assess how changes in these factors would alter the boundaries between these habitats.
• Students will be able to explain the biochemical processes that carry out transfer of biological information from DNA and how these processes are regulated and illustrate the principles of genetics and epigenetics to explain heritable traits in a variety of organisms.
• Students will be able to apply understanding of principles of how molecular and cell assemblies, organs, and organisms develop structure and carry out functions.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to inventory and differentiate the major systems of the human body and describe their function.