Biological Sciences, BS

76-78 credit hours

Requirements

The Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences requires the following courses:

BSC 24000	Introduction to Biological Diversity	4
BSC 24400	Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology	4
BSC 24800	Introduction to Ecology and Evolution	4
BSC 28500	Methods and Writing for Biology	1
BSC 32000	Plant Biology	4
BSC 32400	Animal Biology	4
BSC 40400	Cell Biology	4
BSC 40800	Genetics	4
BSC 46400	Evolution	3
BSC 46500	General Ecology	4
BSC 48800	Genetics of Evolution	2
CHM 23000	General Chemistry 1	3
CHM 23100	General Chemistry 2	3
CHM 23200	General Chemistry 3	3
CHM 24100	General Chemistry 2 Laboratory	1
CHM 24200	General Chemistry 3 Laboratory	1
CHM 36100	Organic Chemistry I	4
CHM 36200	Organic Chemistry II	4
MTH 24100	Statistics for Natural Science	3

Students also select one of the following sets of courses:

MTH 17300	Survey of Calculus	4
PHY 25100	Introductory Physics I	4
PHY 25200	Introductory Physics II	4
	or
MTH 27100	Calculus I	5
MTH 27200	Calculus II	5

Plus six credit hours of biological sciences electives, selected from the following options:

BSC 22700	Human Anatomy and Physiology I	4
BSC 22800	Human Anatomy and Physiology II	4
BSC 23000	Microbiology for Health Sciences	4
BSC 26300	Environmental Policy	3
BSC 28000	Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Science	3
BSC 32900	Human Physiology	4
BSC 33000	Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology	4
BSC 34100	Vertebrate Zoology	4
BSC 34300	Invertebrate Zoology	4
BSC 34500	Identification and Taxonomy of the Local Flora	3
BSC 35100	Field Studies in Taxonomy	3-5
BSC 35300	Microbiology	4
BSC 35800	Parasitology	3
BSC 36200	Advanced Environmental Biology	4
BSC 36600	Field Biology	3
BSC 37000	Wetlands Ecology	4
BSC 38500/CHM 38500	Medicinal Chemistry	3
BSC 40000	Field Research	1-6
BSC 41300	Immunology	3
BSC 41700	Molecular Biology	4
BSC 42200/CHM 42200	Biochemistry: Metabolism	4
BSC 42600	Developmental Biology	4
BSC 48000	Independent Research	1-6